Utahns protest Planned Parenthood in nationwide anti-abortion event

ksl.com ^ | Aug 22nd | Wendy Leonard

[Morgana]

SALT LAKE CITY — Holding a sign denouncing Planned Parenthood for "selling baby parts," Robert Higginson said it is time for Americans to stand up for lives being lost to abortion.

"We are losing a generation of people that could continue great things," he said, calling it a serious constitutional issue. "They are unable to because they are dead."

About 100 Utahns joined in the peaceful protest outside the doors of the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah's Metro Health Center, located at 160 S. 1000 East. It was one of more than 300 protests, two in Utah, that were held Saturday at clinics across the nation.

The thousands that gathered hoped to urge state and federal officials to defund Planned Parenthood, an organization that collects more than $500 million in taxes every year and was recently criticized for its practices related to abortions, including the sale of human tissue.

Robert Woods, of Taylorsville, said public funding should only be used "for the protection and progression of human life."

"We need to defend those who can't defend themselves," he said, referring to the unborn children he believes are murdered in the event of an abortion.

"These babies are people and they deserve the same constitutional rights as everyone else," Higginson, of Bountiful, said.

Mary Boyle said her mother was advised by a doctor to curtail her pregnancy 23 years ago, due to a high probability that the baby would be born with Down syndrome. The same advice came with a younger sibling of Boyle's, but fortunately, for them, Boyle's mother declined and ultimately gave birth to the two girls, both of whom are healthy.

[vette6387]

Here’s hoping that the protests, which are going on all over the country, bring down PP, or at least force the government to cut off giving them our hard-earned money for their bloodthirsty activities.

[Patton@Bastogne]