In a tweet, she said she broke up the protest by chanting the words “yeast infections”.
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Numair, who says Planned Parenthood really did help her with a yeast infection, along with birth control and other health care services, urges others to try her method, especially seeing how effective it was.
Numair arrived October 25 in front of the Portland clinic with a sign that read, “Dear [Planned Parenthood, ] thanks for helping me with my yeast infections”. “In my first 30 seconds of walking out there, I did get called a whore”, she told Slate. “And I started doing high kicks, which I don’t normally do, in my skinny jeans”.
“They’re also the ones who so graciously informed me, after I freaked out after losing my virginity, that I had a latex allergy and there was no reason to panic”, she said to Slate. “I’m very much pro-choice, but if you want to take it beyond pro-choice and pro-life, there are … all these other things that are uncomfortable to talk about and [get treated if] you don’t want to wait two weeks to see your primary doctor or you don’t have health insurance”.
She decided, after failed attempts at talking sense into the protesters, to stage her own counter-protest thanking Planned Parenthood (which is suffering under a smear campaign and defunding threats from Republicans) for what it does for women. “I don’t know why I started chanting ‘Yeast infections!’ but it just came out”. She then got a co-worker to cover the rest of her shift, went outside to the protest, and stood next to a few families with kids.
But a few people passing by the protest gave her props, and the tactic eventually worked.
And one person going by “BracketMarch” on Twitter added: ‘@MaryNumair I hope you are not a bot and this is real.
“The protesters kept moving their children away from my yeasty cries, so I kept moving closer”, she said.
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According to BuzzFeed News, the 29-year-old Oregon copywriter and Planned Parenthood supporter noticed protesters outside a local clinic in Portland.
