Posted on 08/16/2017 9:35:18 AM PDT by simpson96
While the Seattle Storm’s players warmed up inside a quiet KeyArena, the area surrounding the building was crowded with members of the community who supported the team’s partnership with Planned Parenthood, and a few who opposed the rally.
The Storm’s WNBA game against the Chicago Sky on Tuesday night featured an ownership-led initiative in support of the nonprofit that provides reproductive health care. This marks the first time a sports franchise has partnered with Planned Parenthood, according to a spokesperson from the organization.
In addition to an online auction, the Storm pledged to give $5 from each ticket sold to Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands (PPGNHI). The announced attendance Tuesday was 8,358, which equates to about a $42,000 donation from ticket sales.
“No other sports team has been brave enough to do this, but the Seattle Storm is,” Christine Charbonneau, CEO of PPGNHI, said at the pregame rally on KeyArena’s West Plaza.
Signs that said, “I stand with Planned Parenthood” were waiting for spectators in nearly every seat inside KeyArena. During the game, an announcement about the Storm’s auction to raise money for Planned Parenthood was met with cheers from the crowd.
Four Storm players — Sue Bird, Breanna Stewart, Noelle Quinn and Sami Whitcomb — were featured in a PSA the team released last week. Bird said she felt proud when the team’s owners decided to take this stance.
“It’s for everyone, yes, but I think as a woman, you want to support one another and to be a part of that was something that was special,” Bird said.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...
"Seattle Storm owners Ginny Gilder,, Lisa Brummel and Dawn Trudeau, from left, applaud speaker Christine Charbonneau, Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands CEO, as she speaks to a rally before the Storm’s WNBA basketball game against the Chicago Sky"
"Inside KeyArena placards are placed at each seat in observance of the Storm’s support of Planned Parenthood."
Most women that are for abortion are the ones you would not boink anyways
The NFL is in an undeclared war seeking its leftist politicization
It seems Major League Soccer was created with cultural marxism in its DNA.
Why would the LNBA have any use for Planned Barrenhood?They’re all dykes who only get pregnant with a turkey baster.
Of all orginizations, why them? Sell your corporate soul to the devil and reap the rewards.
PP was designed to eliminate black babies. Why hasn’t the left condemn that and have it abolished?
I think most of their fans are lesbians too.
It’s the WNBA....
Who cares about the WNBA to begin with?
I don’t see many straight men flocking to WNBA packages on cable/satellite. Oh wait, there isn’t one.
I don’t see sports bars packed during the WNBA playoffs.
I don’t hear it as a topic of conversation on sports talk radio.
Wait, now IS there a famous WNBA player? Yes, I’m being serious.
I know very little about the NBA,having lost interest in it when Bird,Parrish,McHale and DJ left the Celtics (about 30 years ago).I know ever less about the LNBA.
However,my hunch is that a good portion of the league's fans are females...particularly black females.Stats show that black women,as a percentage of the nation's population,have far more abortions than any other subgroup of women.
If I'm correct here that would explain it...advertising...marketing.
Didn't these people hear??? People are no longer allowed to oppose leftist ideology.
Why aren’t the white supremists out there supporting Planned Parenthood?
So I assume both fans were supportive?
Most of them are lesbians.
I love the photo of the speaker on stage. The crowd is so huge, they pressed the photographer to the front row.
Or, in truth, not one person was standing there listening to the speaker.
Imagine the kids: “Mom, mom, I want my picture with the birth control pill mascot. Please mom.
I live in Washington State yet had never heard of Seattle Storm. This is a lesbian basketball team or something?
“This is a lesbian basketball team or something?”
That’s better than a “Lesbian Track Team”!
Do women play basketball?
Why aren’t the white supremists out there supporting Planned Parenthood?
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It can’t be hard to make a kkk outfit ... we need to get someone in one holding a PP placard/banner at every democRAT event.
top photo 4 women who will never need planned parenthood
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