Planned Parenthood: Business As Usual during Operation Save America's protest

Written by Deirdra Harris Glover

Friday, 13 July 2007

For nearly 77 years, Planned Parenthood of Alabama has helped people make lifelong responsible choices.   From July 14 – 22, an extremist anti-abortion group, Operation Save America, will be in Birmingham in an attempt to disrupt our community with shocking imagery and misleading rhetoric.  Planned Parenthood of Alabama knows that the public wants real solutions to the problem of unintended pregnancy, and for 77 years, Planned Parenthood of Alabama has been here providing the education, information and services people need to prevent unintended pregnancy and reduce the need for abortion.   The actions of this extremist anti-choice group do not distract us from our primary concern, which is always the health and safety of our clients.  Planned Parenthood is committed to helping women prevent unintended pregnancies by providing medically-accurate sex education and low-cost contraceptives to women in Alabama.   Planned Parenthood follows a strict non-engagement policy with protestors.  It is our hope to keep the level of disruption surrounding our health center to a minimum, and as such, we will not be engaging in counter-protests at our health care facility.   We are encouraging our supporters and activists to focus on work that will be important beyond just the next few weeks, like our prevention legislation, due to be introduced in the 2008 Alabama legislative session.  Supporters can help with these efforts by visiting our website www.ppalabama.org and signing our Alabama Prevention Petition, joining our Planned Parenthood Action Network, or making a donation to Planned Parenthood of Alabama.   We thank the many supporters who have expressed their outrage at the efforts of the anti-abortion extremists.  We remind our supporters that OSA’s annual event will be over soon and we can focus our efforts on the things that are truly important like reducing unintended pregnancies and the need for abortion in Alabama.  We also thank the supporters that have visited our website to make donations or sign up for our Pledge-A-Picket program to help reduce harassment at our health centers.   For nearly 77 years, Planned Parenthood has worked to make sure people have the information and means to decide freely and responsibly whether and when to have children – we still have plenty of work to do.  We hope that you will join us in working to protect reproductive health.

 

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