The only entity likely happy about the Aurora Planned Parenthood battle is the Aurora Beacon, which is selling a lot of ad space these days.
I was flabbergasted when hearing about the full page ad Planned Parenthood took out today with a large photo of a bombed abortion clinic and again accusing Joe Scheidler and Pro-Life Action League of violence. Steve Trombley obviously took Tom Brejcha's letter to cease and desist as a dare.
Obviously, PP's goal is to turn public opinion away from what it considers the ringleaders of the movement to keep PP out of Aurora.
I'm biased, but it seems to me this is another colossal bad move on PP's part.
Is this PP's idea of a public relations campaign?
Does PP think this will garner sympathizers who decide, yes, they hadn't thought of it before, but they really want a bomb target next to their Dominicks and Blockbusters?
But the real problem is too many thousands of Aurorans have protested and prayed at the mill. Too many churches are involved. All these people have seen with their own eyes that PP is telling a huge lie about Scheidler and pro-life violence. There are too many videos and photographs and montages and interviews and public testimony of peaceful dissidents.
Further, many of these people have invested in the pro-life movement for the first time in their lives, and Steve Trombley and PP are castigating them when they castigate the "extremists."
Here's a link to the entire ad.
Not to mention the glaring lie that the protests are about denying "vital health care." Nobody objects to vital health care. It's sexual abuse facilitation, fetus slaughter, and treating minorities and the poor as if they're so many stray animals to be spayed and neutered that people object to.
Sometimes you want to just scream.
This ad looks like an act of extreme desperation to me.
PPFA appears to be running out of tricks in pulling out the old paint all pro-lifers as crazies card.
I followed the url in their ad, got their contact info, and sent them an email, asking them to put their money where their mouth is. They claim "unwantedness" as justification for abortion. So why don't they take a hint and abort the unwanted Aurora "clinic"?
info@auroraplannedparenthood.org
The use of emotive imagery to create an impression that bypasses critical thought. You get your gory fetus pics, PP gets their bomb pics. Seems fair to me.
"PPFA appears to be running out of tricks in pulling out the old paint all pro-lifers as crazies card"
Hint for pro-lifers: Stop using the words 'abortion mill' and such terms. You want to distance yourselves from the fanatics, not sound like you are one bad day away from joining them.