President Obama Backs Out of
Planned Parenthood Fundraiser Speech
LifeNews - Steven Ertelt - 4/24/13
President Barack Obama has
backed out of giving a keynote speech at a Planned Parenthood fundraiser on
Thursday night after massive pro-life pressure.
As the Washington
White House spokesman Jay
Carney announced the decision to cancel the keynote speech at the gala during
his daily press briefing with reporters Wednesday. He attributed the schedule
change to Mr. Obama’s desire to spend more time at a memorial service in Waco , Texas
Mr. Carney said the
president will still address Planned Parenthood and its supporters Friday
morning. Still, the shift to a lower-profile address at a more low-key morning
event, rather than an evening gala fundraiser, is significant.
Obama was slated to speak
at Planned Parenthood’s fundraising gala on Thursday night and with the
Kermit Gosnell trial capturing national attention there was significant
backlash. Obama
has thus far refused to comment on the trial — despite the fact that he has
commented on other trials in progress previously.
The pro-life Susan B.
Anthony List responded to the news that President Obama is backing out of the
keynote address at Planned Parenthood’s annual fundraising dinner, saying he is
running away from the abortion giant:
“Planned Parenthood last week admitted to knowing
about the horrors going on inside Kermit Gosnell’s squalid Philadelphia clinic,
but chose not to exercise its position as the leader in the abortion industry
to put an end to the butchering of women and children.
No matter the reason for his backing out, it is
certainly a good time to distance oneself from Planned Parenthood. Now is also
a good time for President Obama to reconsider his position of forcing taxpayers
to fork over more than $542 million each year to this abortion-centered,
profit-driven business. Planned Parenthood is America’s largest abortion
provider which in a single year ended the lives of more than 333,000 children,”
SBA’s Marjorie Dannenfelser said.
She added: “Planned Parenthood cannot claim that the
Gosnell ‘house of horrors’ was an isolated incident as their own employees
exposed them earlier this month for ‘ridiculously unsafe’ clinic conditions and
‘meat-market style of assembly line abortions,’ in Delaware. That came after
news last month that Planned Parenthood lobbied against a bill designed to
protect babies born alive after abortion from the cruel death offered by
Gosnell.”
Lila Rose, the head of the
pro-life group Live Action, which has exposed Planned Parenthood arranging
abortions for victims of sex-trafficking and misleading women about the risks
and dangers associated with abortions, called for the cancellation.
She released the following
statement to LifeNews:
“In the wake of the gruesome
and horrific revelations emanating from the trial of abortion Doctor Kermit
Gosnell, we urge President Obama to cancel his fundraising speech for big abortion
giant Planned Parenthood on Thursday night.
“Planned Parenthood is the
nation’s number-one abortion provider, having received in 2011 (the latest year
with available data) a record $542 million in tax dollars under the policies of
the Obama administration. Over the past few weeks, we have heard the brutal
details of the slaughter of innocent human beings that goes on within the walls
of many abortion clinics, including Gosnell’s ‘House of Horrors’ in
Philadelphia and the ‘meat-market’ ‘assembly-line’ Planned Parenthood of
Delaware.
“These accounts by former
clinic staff have shell-shocked the nation and it is incumbent upon the
President to reconsider his support for the abortion industry and Planned
Parenthood, which last year profited from abortion $87 million dollars
committing over 300,000 abortions.”
The nation’s biggest
abortion business heaped
praise on President Barack Obama calling him the most pro-abortion
president ever.
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