Michelle Malkin » DNC Dispatch: The Planned Parenthood protest; Update: Vid added

DNC Dispatch: The Planned Parenthood protest; Update: Vid added

By Michelle Malkin • August 23, 2008 02:20 PM

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DENVER — I attended the abortion protest at the new Planned Parenthood mega-facility here in Denver this morning.

The pro-abortion presence was measly. I counted about seven or eight demonstrators who tried to compensate for their low numbers with their loud mouths.

The ignorance of the pro-abort activists is, frankly, astonishing. This woman, Elaine Brower of NY, stood with the small gaggle of pro-Planned Parenthood cheerleaders attacking pro-lifers as racists.

But when asked whether the barbaric eugenics legacy of Planned Parenthood godmother Margaret Sanger bothered her, she told me: “No, I don’t believe that. That’s made up. This has nothing to do with black people.”

Speaking of which: All of the pro-abortion activists I saw were white. Meanwhile, across the street from Planned Parenthood’s palace, I spoke with black and Hispanic mothers who had very strong feelings about abortion. They weren’t there to take part in the protests. They were there because Planned Parenthood had the disgustingly bad taste to build their bloody business right next to a large park and playground. It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Park — and it was filled this morning with families watching their sons practice football:

One of the moms, Priscilla, was angry about the construction of the clinic right across from her neighborhood park and said bluntly: “I don’t want a f**king abortion clinic in my neighborhood!” A Hispanic mother added: “It’s against the Catholic Church.” Someone tell Joe Biden. And another black mother of three I spoke to while sitting in her minivan, when asked about her views on abortion, told me simply: “I don’t believe in it.”

But our tax dollars pay for it.

And you’re a woman-hating racist if you oppose it.

And if you want to make your views known at the DNC, you better be quiet about it.

The People’s Press Collective, an impressive group of Denver-area bloggers who have united to provide multimedia coverage of the circus, caught a Democrat clean-up crew quickly dispatched to scrub away pro-life chalk messages left on the sidewalk at the Pepsi Center yesterday:

The message they didn’t want the public to see:

“True change ends abortion.”

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Stay tuned here, at Hot Air, and at the People’s Press Collective for more video.

Update: Here’s vid of the protest. Some of my interview with Priscilla, one of the moms angered by Planned Parenthood’s presence, begins at around 5:39:

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#422314

On August 26th, 2008 at 5:11 pm, EWTHeckman said:

Then it is human. Is it morally okay to kill a human for any reason other than as a just punishment for a crime?

My answer should be obvious.
#422333

On August 26th, 2008 at 5:18 pm, chapoutier said:

My answer should be obvious.

So killing a zygote is the moral equivalent of killing a baby already born?

If so, I still do not understand why the pro life movement does not fight just as vehemently against the morning after pill and IUDs. Why are there no protests with people holding pictures of aborted single cell organisms outside of pharmacies that dispense these products?
#422391

On August 26th, 2008 at 5:44 pm, EWTHeckman said:

What is your answer? Is it morally okay to kill a human for any reason other than as a just punishment for a crime?
#422440

On August 26th, 2008 at 6:19 pm, chapoutier said:

Is it morally okay to kill a human for any reason other than as a just punishment for a crime?

Sure. Self defense is one. In war is another. If you are trying to get me to say that a zygote is a human life you will not succeed. I do not believe that. But you clearly do, so will you kindly respond to my question.

So killing a zygote is the moral equivalent of killing a baby already born?
#422551

On August 26th, 2008 at 7:41 pm, EWTHeckman said:

If you are trying to get me to say that a zygote is a human life you will not succeed.

And that is precisely why pro-lifers don’t tend to focus less on less obvious instances of abortion. It is far easier to show that the unborn are human when some hard-hearted cretin is causing a beating heart and brainwaves to stop so he can suck body parts, complete with fingers and toes out of what should be the safest place on earth: a mother’s womb.

I repeat, it’s not lesser murder to kill a less advanced human being, just harder to show, as you have just proved in spades.

What I don’t get is why you are so dead set on holding on to your Sorites Paradox, nailing jello to a wall, definition of “person” come hell or high water in spite of the solid scientific evidence that they are human (not fish, fowl, or plant) from the very moment of conception. Why are you so hardened that you insist on erring on the side of destruction rather than the side of caution?
#422563

On August 26th, 2008 at 7:53 pm, chapoutier said:

I repeat, it’s not lesser murder to kill a less advanced human being, just harder to show, as you have just proved in spades.

So you consider women who use IUDs to be murderers?

the safest place on earth: a mother’s womb.

Are you kidding? Safe? Do you know how many pregnancies are miscarried? Often without the woman ever realizing they were pregnant at all? But I guess when that happens, it was all part of some bigger plan or something.

Why are you so hardened that you insist on erring on the side of destruction rather than the side of caution?

Well, I don’t insist on anything. I have never had an abortion. I just leave possible the option for others to do so.
#422577

On August 26th, 2008 at 8:12 pm, EWTHeckman said:

Hopefully you will never find yourself in a situation where someone strips you of your human rights by defining you as a “non-person.” If that ever happens though, then maybe you will understand why I oppose it so vehemently.

Obviously, continuing to point out facts to you is a waste of time. It’s clear that you don’t accept the concept that human rights belong to human beings. I’m done here.
#422615

On August 26th, 2008 at 8:41 pm, chapoutier said:

Been fun. Thanks.