Posted on 11/25/2019 2:01:34 PM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Seattle-based Planned Parenthood affiliate ventures into Indiana and Kentucky, giving a blue-state boost to red-state clinics
SEATTLE — In mid-September, Chris Charbonneau flew — triumphantly — to Fort Wayne, Ind. The CEO of the Seattle-based Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands had just pulled off a stealth operation.
Last year, Fort Wayne’s only Planned Parenthood clinic closed. The landlord didn’t renew the lease. A nurse practitioner left after a group called Created Equal distributed flyers with her name and photo. It was an attempt to pressure her to “stop doing evil,” said the organization’s vice president, Seth Drayer.
The clinic didn’t do abortions but Drayer said he considered staffers fair game because of their role in the Planned Parenthood network, which provides abortions as well as birth control, gynecological exams, STD testing and other types of health care.
“We need to go buy a building in Fort Wayne,” Charbonneau resolved.
“We,” because Charbonneau, whose affiliate already covered Alaska and most of Idaho as well as Western Washington and Hawaii, was in the process of adding two states: Indiana and Kentucky.
The merger with an affiliate 2,000-plus miles away — not yet official but already happening in practice as an alliance headed by Charbonneau — takes the Seattle-based Planned Parenthood affiliate into some of the most hostile territory for abortion rights. It also represents the lengths to which affiliates are going as they struggle to survive amid newly restrictive abortion laws and changes in women’s health care — ironically, many of them incredible advances, according to Betty Cockrum, a retired Planned Parenthood leader in Indianapolis.
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If meat is murder, what is an abortion? The Holocaust of our times.
It would be interesting to see how Planned Parenthood would attempt to deal with “Meat is Murder” protesters.
I moved from Seattle to KY about 8 years ago. I work in Louisville where, I believe, the only abortion clinic in the state exists. I drive by it on my way home from work. Protesters constantly there.
There will be more soon. Andy Beshear will see to it.
He won’t get any support from his government.
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