Groups Join Growing Protest of Aurora (IL) Planned Parenthood...

[bliss_eternal]

Groups join growing protest of Aurora Planned Parenthood clinic
By Rhianna Wisniewski | Special to the Tribune

August 26, 2007

What began earlier this month as a prayer vigil protesting a Planned Parenthood clinic under construction in Aurora morphed Saturday into what organizers hope is now a full-blown, regional battle over abortion.

More than 1,000 demonstrators carrying posters with images of unborn and aborted fetuses flanked the sidewalks near the Planned Parenthood clinic at 3051 E. New York St. Saturday morning, calling for its closure and the end of abortion.

"Aurora is in the midst of a historical movement with regard to abortion in the U.S.," said organizer Eric Scheidler, communications director for the Pro-Life Action League. "This city's slogan is, 'Second to None,' let's hope they just aren't second to none in aborting babies."

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Wearing "Face the Truth" T-shirts, Rockford residents Shawn and Lisa Ryatt and their three children, Colleen, 10, Neal, 13, and Doug, 16, all carried posters of aborted and early developed fetuses and compared abortion to the Holocaust.

"We have no problem carrying these signs," Shawn Ryatt said. "Our children know the horror."

About two dozen Planned Parenthood supporters, mostly members of the state chapter and DuPage and Kane County chapters of the National Organization for Women, and the Socialist Workers Party held a counter-protest across the street.

Illinois NOW president Bonnie Grabenhofer said the counter-protest was a show of support for the clinic and the women who need it.

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taken from:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-abortion_protest_26aug26,1,2129752.story


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I apologize for editorializing here, but it is my firm belief that these people are mentally ill. I'm sorry but there is something so wrong (to me) about teaching children that it's ok to force your beliefs on others, bullying and harassment of women. :scared:

[smokey nj]

1. These people are batshit crazy.

:grr: