Anti-abortion protesters rally at Planned Parenthood sites

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

(Reuters) - Thousands of anti-abortion protesters on Saturday demonstrated at Planned Parenthood sites around the United States where they called for the federal government to end funding for the health organization.

The protests staged at dozens of Planned Parenthood sites came after an anti-abortion group released an eighth video on Friday purporting to show Planned Parenthood officials negotiating prices for aborted fetal tissue.

During the two-hour morning rallies, demonstrators prayed and chanted outside the facilities as they held signs condemning Planned Parenthood and its practices.

"Planned Parenthood sells baby parts," read one sign at a rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, according to a photos posted on social media.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/anti-abortion-protesters-rally-planned-parenthood-sites-224333943.html

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DU threads on local protests:

There's a protest at Planned Parenthood, just outside of Flint, MI
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027100839

Anti-abortion activists protest outside Planned Parenthood health center in Baton Rouge
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1054446

[seveneyes]

1. Let me know when the fetus brokers start adopting for charity

Until then, fuck them ...

[Marthe48]

2. Local news stations allowed inaccurate comments

I wrote to both, telling them why the comments are inaccurate, that Planned Parenthood is going to sue, and will the stations do a follow-up story that investigations of PP prove that the films are lies.

WTAP Parkersburg, WV

WOWK, Charleston-Huntington, WV

I am pro-choice, pro-truth. Inaccurate reporting on this story is going to mislead even more people.

[uppityperson]

3. They aren't anti-abortion, they are anti-choice

[jmowreader]

4. They are anti-humanity

Tell ya what, anti-humanity protesters: I will be MORE than happy to trade a cessation of government funding for Planned Parenthood for the total abolition of tax-free status for churches.

[mdbl]

12. Couldn't have said that better!

I am so sick of these tax scamming religions.

[BlueJazz]

5. I wish it were legal to throw "paint balloons" at the protesters.

[jmowreader]

14. You're just not thinking clearly here

What SHOULD be legal to throw at the protesters is a plastic bottle containing a pint of Tabasco and a few lit M-80s.

[BlueJazz]

15. That would be glorious! "What the hell is this red stuf...JESUS CHRIST !!!"

[NikolaC]

6. We were driving through Gilroy today and

they were out there, it was pitiful. There were about six on one side of the street holding a sign saying, "honk if you love babies" and a couple with a baby on the other side holding a sign that said "This baby is not for sale". No one honked and I gave them the finger (I have a bit of a temper).

[fbc]

7. Did the police use tear gas?

seems like a double standard.

[DhhD]

8. Women being turned away for healthcare previously done at PP, should organize

in to a law suite against the states that have not expanded Medicaid, as ACA says that every American is to have Patient Protection. IMO, Louisiana would be the place to start. No abortion at Louisiana's PPs to start with.

Federal funding down to PP? Congress needs to set up the Medicaid Expansion in every state.

Conservatives demonstrating remind me of Bush/Cheney invading Iraq without a plan on how to set up a balance-of power-in-the-Region-government, so secularism is not nor will be needed.

PP can still provide abortions after the Medicaid Expansion. Abortion is still the legal.

Who is providing abortions for wealthy women? How does these healthcare providers deal with the fetus? Maybe it is still Mitt Romney's business dealings.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/romney-bain-abortion-stericycle-sec

[L. Coyote]

9. Mug shots of the ones being prosecuted. What a bunch of losers!

[DesertRat]

10. Good one! nt

[mountain grammy]

11. This is disturbing and it's important that we not remain silent.

These are not a few sidewalk "counselors." This is an organized movement against women having control over their own healthcare. We cannot allow it to gain more traction.

We have to get really vocal about this now. My fucking new Senator has already voted to defund PP, something he never mentioned in the campaign.

[sinkingfeeling]

13. They were here too. I wanted to ask them how concerned they are about the USA making

body parts out of living human beings with our 'wars'.