Anti-Abortion Groups Shut Down Habitat for Humanity Project

[babylonsister]

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/87304/#more

Anti-Abortion Groups Shut Down Habitat for Humanity Project

Posted by Jill Filipovic, Feministe at 1:00 PM on June 6, 2008.

Once again, abortion opponents reveal their disregard for life after birth.


I know we’ve said it over and over: “Pro-lifers” don’t seem to care much for “life” once people actually enter the world. They oppose contraception access, which could prevent millions of abortions; their political allies take no steps to assist low-income women; they oppose universal health-care; and they generally stand against any social program that would actually help women and children. In fact, 100% of the worst legislators for children are “pro-life.”

So it shouldn’t come as a surprise when anti-choicers oppose programs that help born people secure shelter. And yet, even I was stunned at this:

An anti-abortion group has broken up a deal between Planned Parenthood and Habitat for Humanity by blasting out 10,000 e-mails to Habitat supporters.

Planned Parenthood is building a 23,000-square-foot regional headquarters on Central Avenue, and planned to sell Habitat the land next door for a token $10 to build three below-market-cost houses. The deal benefited Planned Parenthood because the city required the clinic to put up buildings as a buffer between its parking lot and Cohen Way.

“We could have put up any building we wanted,” said Barbara Zdravecky, president of Planned Parenthood. “We wanted to donate the land so Habitat could build more attainable housing.”

So Planned Parenthood sold a large piece of land to Habitat for Humanity for $10 — PP needed buildings to go up in the space, and they figured that they would use the requirement for good. But “pro-life” groups were so outraged that they shut down the project — a project that had nothing to do with abortion, and only meant that there would be more attainable multi-family housing in Sarasota. According to the American Life League, the problem is any “association” with Planned Parenthood. Even when Planned Parenthood is essentially giving them a gift. Even when the “association” has nothing to do with any of Planned Parenthood’s activities, and simply amounts to more housing for low-income families.

Take action to counter anti-choicers’ stranglehold on the “life” issue: Go here to tell national Habitat for Humanity that they shouldn’t let themselves be bullied by anti-choice, anti-life asshats. And go here to donate to Habitat — and let them know that pro-choicers are their base.

[mac2]

1. We have a huge over population problem in the world

but the religiously insane don't care. Who will feed the many? Not their church.

[sufrommich]

2. Right wingers have no shame,nor sense of irony. nt

[MindPilot]

3. George Carlin gave the best description of anti-choicers

"They want live babies so they can turn them into dead soldiers."

Apparently they like their saved babies homeless too.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. No sense of long-term ramifications.

You're anti-abortion. You make it difficult for certain women to have the right to choose whether to terminate a pregnancy. These women decide to carry a zygote to embryo to fetus to child, by choice or by lack of choice. The mothers and children have little means to pay for a place to live. Habitat for Humanity would have provided sorely needed homes. And these anti-abortion people made sure that there would be more homeless families searching for a place to live.

Love the zygote, hate the child.

[windoe]

5. If a prophet came to Earth today

would he/she still say, 'Go forth and multiply'. I think not, I suspect there would be a new message, like 'OK good job on that-I didn't mean 'at the expense of the planet or the living.'

[katmondoo]

6. The Hillary supporters could do a lot of good here

Where are you. Show you can fight

[Dogmudgeon]

7. Where we are

It's Saturday morning. A whole lot of us are down at the local free women's medical center doing clinic defense.

--p!

[lynnertic]

8. What's really great is how the name of the anti-abortion group doesn't appear in this post

So we don't know who is responsible for this particular SNAFU.

It seems more and more that the news is supposed to stir emotions without giving us facts to do something about whatever problem is being reported. Like orwell's Two Minutes Hate.


Grrrr to all them, whoever they are!
:mad: