The mayor of La Follette, Tennessee had invited Planned Parenthood to open a new clinic, that would offer expanded services, including abortion, in his community. The landlords of the prospective clinic property, a former school building, previously unrentable, were excited at the prospect. There was no objection from the vast majority of the community. There almost never is.
The local pro life agitators, a coalition of Catholic and Protestant fundamentalist cranks, went directly to the mayor and landlords. They presented them with the kind of literature and graphic imagery that they would be displaying and handing out at the new site. They described the kinds and schedules of the disruptions they would be causing in the community, if the Planned Parenthood facility was allowed to open. They explained how potentially dangerous and violent these disruptive acts had become at other locations, even murder is not out of the question.
The mayor and landlords quickly withdrew their offer of the facility to Planned Parenthood. I have to say, that in the long term, I approve of these kinds of tactics by the wing nuts. Filling the locals with fear and revulsion will damn their cause in the end, by showing their true colors. I have no problem with abortion clinics being in remote areas, on the edge of town or in places where rampaging wing nuts are actually an improvement over the usual denizens.
Keep it up, wing nuts. You have nothing to lose but the respect of your neighbors. Save those little pre born souls. May they all grow up to piss on the Church door step.
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