Yesterday, untold numbers of Americans turned out in front of some 320 Planned Parenthood (PP) clinics across the Untied [sic] States to protest against:
- PP’s abortion of innocent unborn human beings
- PP’s sale-for-profit of their body parts and tissue, including the harvesting of organs from still-alive “late-term” aborted babies. (See “Planned Parenthood horror: Baby’s heart beats during harvesting of his brain“)
- American taxpayers being forced against our conscience to “subsidize” PP to the tune of $500 million in 2014 — when Social Security Disability is broke and the national debt exceeds our GDP, at almost $19 trillion.
Peter Holley reports for The Washington Post, Aug. 22, 2015:
Thousands of antiabortion activists descended upon Planned Parenthood clinics on Saturday to participate in a nationwide protest aimed at cutting off federal funding for the controversial health-care organization.
The demonstrations unfolded at about 320 clinics around the nation, according to organizers, with some gatherings drawing a few dozen protesters and others drawing hundreds and perhaps thousands more.
The protests kicked off at 9 a.m. Saturday and included speakers, prayer groups and chants, as well as signs distributed by organizers that said “Planned Parenthood sells baby parts.”
Though the official number of protesters was not immediately available, organizers billed the effort as the largest-ever rally against the health-care provider. Monica Miller, the director of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, one of the participating groups, told USA Today that previous protests have drawn thousands of protesters, but hundreds of simultaneous protests have never taken place on the same day.
“We want to draw attention to the injustice of legalized abortion,” she said. “The American public needs to be awakened to the atrocity of what is happening to innocent unborn children.”
Here are some of the protests, from tweets sent by participants:
Abortion in America disproportionately impacts blacks. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), black women make up 12.3% of the female population in America, but accounted for 36.4% of all U.S. abortions in 2006.
But I don’t see black Americans in these photos, do you?
#BlackLivesMustNotMatter. (See also “Wife of AG Eric Holder co-owns an abortion clinic building“)
Eric Ferrero, vice president of Planned Parenthood, said in a statement: “These rallies are meant to intimidate and harass our patients, who rely on our nonprofit health centers for basic, preventive health care. The people behind these protests have a clear political agenda: They want to ban abortion, and block women and men from accessing basic reproductive health care.”
Damn right you are, Eric Ferrero.
We also want to strip you of your 6-figures taxpayer-paid PP salary.
~Éowyn