Nationwide Rallies Draw Election Year Focus Back to Defunding Planned Parenthood
Pro-Life Action League Leads Americans in Response Abortion Industry Horrors
Contact: Tom Ciesielka, 312.422.1333, tc@tcpr.net
(April 21, 2016 – Chicago) American attitudes towards abortion are shifting, as the largest series of nationwide pro-life rallies in history resumes on April 23.
After Planned Parenthood’s practice of trafficking in the body parts of
aborted babies was exposed last year, the . dialogue has become less
about rights, than about “what is right,” according to Eric Scheidler, Executive Director of the Pro-Life Action League and national organizer of #ProtestPP gatherings. “We’ve seen this nowhere more publicly than on the Presidential debate stage,” he emphasized.
The
protests, coordinated by Pro-Life Action League, Created Equal and
Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, will take place across the U.S. in more than 200 cities, including Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Detroit and Washington D.C. Last year 100,000 citizens
rallied against Planned Parenthood at over 400 locations, reacting in
outrage to the abortion giant’s callous treatment of unborn children. In
the wake of these protests, more than 20 Planned Parenthood centers
closed and nine states stripped funding for the organization from their
budgets.
“The
public was appalled at Kermit Gosnell’s ‘House of Horrors,’” explained
Scheidler, referring the Philadelphia abortionist convicted for his
barbaric practices in 2013. “Last year’s videos exposed Planned
Parenthood’s crude and mercenary treatment of the babies they abort, and
destroyed any illusion that that they are any more humane than the
‘back-alley’ abortionists they claim to abhor,” he added.
The
controversy surrounding Planned Parenthood has impacted the current
Presidential campaign, with statements from both party frontrunners
drawing ire on both sides of the debate. Scheidler hopes that the
nationwide protests on April 23
will put the focus on Planned Parenthood’s exploitation of unborn
children and increase demands for the organization to be deprived of
government funding.
Scheidler
has long spoken out against what he refers to “abortion
exceptionalism,” the idea that abortion vendors and proponents receive
protections not granted any other business and are often exempt from the
standards other medical facilities must adhere to despite the invasive
procedures they perform.
“There
is a glaring prejudice against the sanctity of human life in America’s
legal system,” Scheidler stated, citing the example of California
Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Kamala Harris. Harris is
seeking criminal charges against undercover journalist David Daleiden,
whose videos exposed the Planned Parenthood baby parts scandal, even
though she staunchly defended animal rights activists using the same
techniques as Daleiden.
About the Pro-Life Action League
The
Pro-Life Action League was founded by Joe Scheidler in 1980 with the
aim of saving babies from abortion through direct action. Not content to
await a political or judicial solution to abortion, the League seeks to
stop the killing of unborn children right now through all available
peaceful means, including public protest, sidewalk counseling,
education, youth outreach, and national leadership. Visit www.prolifeaction.org to learn more.
