Hundreds of pro-abortion demonstrators tried to block a monthly pro-life march and prayer vigil at a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Lower Manhattan on July 2, 2022, setting off a tense confrontation. | Jeffrey Bruno/CNA
Posted on 07/07/2022 6:29:53 PM PDT by marshmallow
Hundreds of pro-abortion demonstrators tried to block a monthly pro-life march and prayer vigil at a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Lower Manhattan on July 2, 2022, setting off a tense confrontation. | Jeffrey Bruno/CNA
Hundreds of pro-abortion demonstrators tried to block a monthly pro-life march and prayer vigil at a New York City Planned Parenthood abortion clinic Saturday, setting off a tense, hours’ long confrontation in Lower Manhattan.
With NYPD officers slowly pushing against the crowd, the marchers eventually reached the clinic. There were no immediate reports of arrests.
A counter-demonstration organized by NYC for Abortion Rights began Saturday morning outside the Basilica of Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Mulberry Street, where a monthly Witness for Life Mass is held at 8 a.m. on the first Saturday of the month. The Mass is followed by the recitation of the Rosary outside the nearby Planned Parenthood clinic, then benediction back at the basilica before a social with the Sisters of Life.
On Saturday, counter-demonstrators tried to stop participants from leaving the basilica, though marchers managed to slip out a back door, AMNY reported.
The marchers’ path to the clinic was blocked by pro-abortion protesters who pushed back against police trying to clear the way.
Kathryn Jean Lopez, senior fellow at the National Review Institute and an editor-at-large of National Review, tweeted from the scene that it took marchers more than an hour to reach the clinic, which is just a block from the basilica. Marchers were “praying all the way,” she said.
Outside the basilica, demonstrators chanted, “Thank God for abortion,” and “F---- the Church,” among other slogans.
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What about what the pope is doing?
There have been a lot of SCOTUS decisions that Conservatives found very disturbing. I don’t recall any reactions remotely approaching this.
That’s because conservatives have a clue regarding what the constitution is.
The proverbial ugly mob.
Seriously? LOL. We’ve let politicians and public opinion (democracy) and the courts roll back The Bill of Rights and especially the 2A since 1934 with nary a peep. It’s no wonder they feel they feel they can keep chipping away until only cops and inner city rappers are allowed to keep and bear arms.
Those involved in the abortion trade are greedy lunatics
This is why the 2nd amendment is so important.
This was not a chipping away of the constitution which was in response to the “peeps” pro lifers kept at for lo these many years. These people think that is debatable
It is not.
Ghouls and murderers.
Freedom of speech wasn’t intended to protect COUNTERprotesters that instead of protesting government actions, march and protest against other citizens in an attempt to drown out or intimidate them into not exercising their free speech rights. It was meant that those protesting the government for the government’s actions could not be silenced by government.
Counterprotesting, while no doubt satisfying to the counterprotesters in some ways, is NOT free speech, but instead a tactic of Marxists and Fascists to attempt to silence the free speech of others.
Kelsey Grammer apparently said “If someone has to die as a result of rape, it should be the rapist, not the unborn child”
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