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Planned Parenthood of East Central Iowa CEO Joe Lock
Planned Parenthood has proved, once again, that they’ve only got one play in their miserable little play book. They can’t defend corrupting youth, destroying families and killing 305,310 unborn babies they kill every year. So they always resort to demonizing pro-lifers.
The latest attack comes from Planned Parenthood of East Central Iowa CEO Joe Lock. In a report from KCRG news today he raises the specter of violence over our protest of his big abortion gala this evening where Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards will speak.
Lock claims to have been working with police, local businesses and even the FBI to prevent any violence from disrupting his big abortion party. He says they’ve been calling attendees to assure them of their safety.
While I’m delighted to think that some Planned Parenthood supporters may choose to stay home tonight out of unfounded fear, the truth is we contacted Cedar Rapids police days ago to inform them of our peaceful protest plans.
But you could see why Lock wants to put the focus on the prospect of violent pro-life protesters. In the same article, I’m quoted saying abortion is nothing to celebrate. Lock doesn’t want readers to come away thinking about Planned Parenthood’s radical abortion agenda. He wants the takeaway to be that pro-life activists are violence-prone.
Oddly enough, Lock even admits there has been no violence directed at Planned Parenthood of East Central Iowa ever in the 30 year history that they’re celebrating tonight.
He’d like the readers of (insert outlet) to think that’s because of his vigilance. But the real reason for the past 30 years of peace—and the peaceful protest coming tonight—is that the pro-life movement is peaceful.
Lock may be bluffing, but if there really will be extra security tonight, I have a suggestion for what fruitful purpose they might be put to. They could be deployed as guards over the heaps of baby goods we’re collecting tonight for needy moms.
You can help set the record straight on the peacefulness that guides our pro-life mission by leaving your comments at the KCRG website.
Tell the people of Cedar Rapids and—show them how peaceful, respectful and well-reasoned we pro-lifers really are.
After all, we’re now in the majority—and that’s got to have both Joe Lock and Cecile Richards shaking in their boots. The growing influence of the pro-life voice—and not alleged pro-life violence—is what they’re really scared of.
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Being informed is so important. Here is an interesting article.
http://cchronicle.com/2010/05/defunding-attacks-inspire-increase-in-donations-to-indiana-planned-parenthood/
Posted May 20, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Cecile Richards is pro-choice? That’s another one of her lies. If she were pro-choice, she would choose herself. Of course, she’s too much of a hypocrite as well as too much of a liar to ever choose herself. Why is she smiling so wide? It’s because she rakes in over a million dollars every year for her salary. She couldn’t care less about the millions of babies Planned Murderhood butchers and the millions of women they leave emotionally scarred, additionally with the increased risk of breast cancer. That’s somebody else’s problem, as long as the suckers keep on coming and crooked politicians keep the money flowing from our tax dollars.
Posted May 20, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Have you heard her story: http://www.rebeccakiessling.com/
Mother was raped. The resulting child, now a woman, says she “was not lucky, she was protected”.
Posted May 21, 2010 at 11:52 am
[...] and I loved the idea, and sprung into action. Driving down I-88, I dictated a blog post to Matt, who typed it into my laptop and posted it, and then followed up with alerts on Facebook [...]
Posted May 27, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Oh, yes ‘pro-life’ protesters are always so peaceful. Just ask the folks in Wichita, where a pro-life protester shot a doctor in cold blood while he was attending church a year ago. No need for abortion clinics or doctors to be concerned about violence. Those planned parenthood folks are definitely over-reacting.
Posted June 2, 2010 at 4:08 pm
AND the murder of over a million a year of innocent unborn humans continue, Jane!
Posted June 3, 2010 at 9:29 am
over a million a year in America alone!
Posted June 3, 2010 at 9:35 am
@Jane:
Scott Roeder belonged to no mainstream pro-life organizations; he was not a “pro-life protester,” as you call him. Violence does not work. Joe Scheidler wrote an excellent essay on this, which you can read here: http://prolifeaction.org/about/closed81.php
The pro-life movement has been non-violent for its 30+ years; two or three outliers who commit violent acts should not be allowed to redefine the entire movement.
-Corrina
Posted June 3, 2010 at 12:52 pm
@Corrina
I don’t know what qualifies a pro-life organization as ‘mainstream’ but Roeder attended meetings of a pro-life organization in Kansas prior to murdering Dr. Tiller. And the article you linked to overlooked the injuries suffered by clinic security guards, nurses and receptionists who were working at clinics when they were bombed, set fire to or shot at. Also, Dr. Tiller was shot twice, once fatally. And he wasn’t the first or even second Dr. to be killed. I am not ‘redefining the entire movement,’ only pointing out that some of the movement may not explicitly support such violent acts, but it also does not condemn them either. Even the article you referenced speaks of visiting the perpetrators of violence in jail. My point was Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers have good reason to fear violence from the pro-life movement.
Posted June 3, 2010 at 5:01 pm
“My point was Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers have good reason to fear violence from the pro-life movement.”
Contraception and abortion, being the worst evil in the history of the world, it’s able opposition…..the Pro-Life movement, would cause Planned Parenthood to “fear violence” indeed!
Posted June 4, 2010 at 10:10 am
@Jane:
I guess I ought to have been more specific. Scott Roeder had no authority in any pro-life group. He had the ear of no pro-life leaders. Attending a few meetings, to me, is no big deal, because I could attend PETA meetings without ever really belonging to (in any meaningful sense) PETA. Anyone can attend a meeting–you don’t have to agree with a group’s ideology to attend. Perhaps some would disagree with my standard here.
You point out that clinics have been bombed and other abortionists shot, but you can make no connection between those events and the actions of the Pro-Life Action League or any of the other groups protesting in Iowa. Despite no violence from any of the organizing groups, and the fact that our group sent letters to the police explicitly telling them what our plans were, Planned Parenthood literally called the SWAT team and the FBI against us. I believe this was not justified. Perhaps we’ll have to just disagree on this point, Jane.
Posted June 4, 2010 at 10:37 am
@Corrina
Well, I think you illustrate my point well. If the likes of Scott Roeder can attend your meetings, then he could certainly attend your actions and therefore Planned Parenthood IS justified in their concern. I have no knowledge of the Pro-Life Action League, but Jerry Vilt is here commenting on my posts and he certainly seems willing to commit violent acts against Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers. His characterization of abortion and contraception as the worst evil in history, is ludicrous but would certainly be cause for concern if I knew he was attending your action. And I don’t see anyone from Pro-Life Action League asking him to tone it down. He may not speak for your organization nor for the majority of people involved in it, but here he is offering veiled threats and no one from your organization has stepped up to contradict him, which speaks volumes really.
Posted June 4, 2010 at 1:41 pm
“His characterization of abortion and contraception as the worst evil in history, is ludicrous but would certainly be cause for concern if I knew he was attending your action.”
ludicrous???
Trying to write off the worst evil in history as “ludicrous” gets one absolved of responsibility?
If it’s NOT LUDICROUS, what is the value of any defense or justification?
Repeat: The worst evil the entire world has ever seen!!!
Posted June 4, 2010 at 3:12 pm
@Jane:
The logical extension of your argument (that because anyone can attend any group’s meeting and then do something violent at a completely different time when no one else from the group is even around) means that every event sponsored by every group must have the SWAT and FBI show up AND that every person who has ever been mentioned by one of those groups (PETA, the ACLU, the local PTA) should have around the clock protection. That just doesn’t seem like a good use of the FBI.
Another point I should mention is that none of the violent activities you mention never took place during a pro-life event (“action” in your words). Tiller was not shot during a pro-life event. Gunn was not shot during a pro-life event. etc, etc.
I do not understand which of Jerry’s posts you believe are “veiled threats”. Could you please clarify for which posts you are accusing him of being violent? You can email me privately at corrina (at) prolifeaction.org ? I can bring up your specific concerns regarding the specific quotations from what he has written at our next staff meeting.
Posted June 4, 2010 at 7:03 pm