Pro-life, pro-choice supporters in Philly region protest at Planned Parenthood
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Saturday, February 11, 2017
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As part of a coordinated national campaign, protesters stood outside
Planned Parenthood clinics across the country — including one in the
Philadelphia suburbs.
Today's rallies were to support Congress'
attempt to defund Planned Parenthood and reallocate the money toward
other community health providers.
Anti-abortion advocates braved
the cold and snow to hold signs, sing hymns and pray together. More than
150 people stood outside the Planned Parenthood clinic that provides
abortion services in Warminster.
Protesters held signs with slogans like "Honk for Life" and "Women DO regret abortion."
Tony
Castle and his wife brought their three young children out. "I disagree
with our tax money being used to support Planned Parenthood. They don't
have a monopoly on care. This has to stop," he said.
He says the
ban on federal dollars being used for abortions isn't enough. "I think
that to me that sounds like a nice accounting gimmick and immaterial."
Speakers
included Father Frank Pavone, the national director of Priests for Life
and Kevin Burke, co-founder of Rachel's Vineyard Ministries.
Lauren
Kretzer, regional coordinator for the Silent No More Awareness
Campaign, spoke about having two abortions as a young woman and the
heaviness she carried with her until she was able to finally open up
about them at a ministry.
"What I did not know at the time was
that all around me were people who had the same secret. They were not
just people outside the church but also inside sitting in pews, behind
the pulpits, even in our seminaries," she said. "No one ever told me how
my abortions impacted my friends, my family, my future husband or our
ability to start a family of our own."
Attendee Linda Korpel from
Bridgeport has been going to rallies like these since her father
inspired her more than 40 years ago. "I think it's a crime that our tax
money goes to Planned Parenthood," she said. "I just don't believe
they're on the up and up. I'd like to take my money that I pay in taxes
away from them."
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