Planned Parenthood CEO draws anemic crowd at pro-contraception rally
I just love that photo, courtesy of Statesman.com. But we already knew the other side is a grumpy bunch.
On February 17, four student groups plus the local Planned Parenthood combined forces, such as they were, to hold a pro-free-contraceptive rally at the University of Texas Austin.
This was an initial test of the new pro-abortion strategy of switching topics from abortion to contraception.
And even with a big name like Planned Parenthood Federation of America CEO Cecile Richards as the keynote (in her own hometown, no less), the synergized efforts of Law Students for Reproductive Justice, Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region, Texas Freedom Network Student Chapter, University Democrats, and Voices for Reproductive Justice could only muster a crowd of 150, according to school newspaper The Horn (to be fair, 160, according to UT Democrats).
Meanwhile, The Horn reported 50 pro-lifers present in protest. Here’s a screen shot of both groups…
I don’t know. Looks like pro-lifers were almost as well represented as pro-aborts. And with no promise on our end of free t-shirts and “HUGE tents” to protect from the elements. (Desperate much? Overpromise much?)…
The tremendous volume of regrets on their Facebook page is also an interesting read.
But yes, we all know rain can be a crowd killer, as we observed at the 2012 March for Life…
Again, and as we all know, abortion proponents do not have the grassroots support pro-lifers have, even when trying to move from abortion to contraception. This is our strength.
I might also add that even the numbers they show are falsely inflated, since those numbers are sure to include paid Planned Parenthood staff.
I’m reminded of happening upon a small band of pro-abort protesters at the Capitol Hill Hyatt the night of the Rose Dinner after this year’s March. I asked the woman holding the sign, right (click to enlarge – sorry about the quality – I took the photo with my iPhone), if she had been paid to protest. She refused to answer me. If she had taken the trouble to protest of her own volition, she would have been proud to say so.
[Photo of 2012 March for Life via CBS News]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Their numbers would be larger if they included the abortion friendlies in the media.
To be fair I’ve been to plenty of pro-life, grassroots events like these and the crowds have been equally dismal. Granted, no one has ever been paid to stand and hold a sign, as far as I know.
There’s a psychology involved as to why people don’t rally around a grand cause they fully and whole-heartedly support.
Great writeup! The thing is, it seems like their rallies are ALWAYS dismal. This isn’t the first rally I’ve seen pictures of with only a handful of pro-aborts.
I loved those videos that showed the smiling pro-life kids with their yellow life balloons and then then panned to the pro-aborts scowling and trying desperately to organize. Ha!
Big surprise, more broken promises! They can’t even keep them dry…
The ones that show always look so crabby.
In my neck of the woods students come out to support PP after being promised a free lunch at Subway.
If I had photoshop, I would totally do something like this with that guy’s face:
http://thisisphotobomb.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/photobomb-that-guy-blech.jpg
Oh man, I can think of a group of maybe four or five feminazis who would do this at my school proudly…while wearing a giant uterus suit, no less. One of them even claims to be a Catholic! They always look so angry. ALWAYS. It’s a shame, if only they could think for themselves…
“But yes, we all know rain can be a crowd killer, as we observed at the 2012 March for Life…”
haha :)
It is part of every Planned Parenthood employee’s job to attend rallies such as this, as well as tweeting and FB’ing everything the goddess Cecile instructs them to. That is one reason they were so successful against Komen and, if UNANSWERED by us, will be why they’ll be successful at defeating our GOP candidates with this false birth control argument. Christians seem to be always behind the ball on things like social networking (present company excluded, of course). Though I will say, conservatives used to OWN the twitter until the proggies caught up.
ANYWAY, I usually try to compose at least 10 tweets a day concerning the prolife issue, and a lot of them are directly exposing the dirty deeds of PP. I also retweet like mad throughout the day.
What if we worked as hard on getting the word out as PP employees do? We would win. Always.
They call that a “huge tent”? More pro-abort brilliance.
Relative to no tent at all, it’s huge.
Just like, relative to an adult driving around in a car, going to work, and talking on a cell phone, a gestating human being is like, not even a human being at all and stuff.
THEY’RE BRILLIANT.
In the late 60’s and early 70’s rallies protesting against the vietnam war were huge, not just in the US. Rallies in support of the vietnam war, not so much.
You have large rallies against abortion and to a lesser extent, some forms of contraception.
If abortion and certain forms of contraception were banned then you probably wouldn’t even bother to have rallies.
The point is that rallies against an existent state of affairs, or in support of something which doesn’t currently exist, will always be larger.
So it is only to be expected that anti-choice rallies will be larger than pro-choice rallies.
If the current state of play changes to any significant extent then just watch the numbers change.
Umm…the rally wasn’t against contraception. It was against the MANDATE.
Get it straight, m’kay?
Neither was the 2012 March for Life rally, or the Rose Dinner. Nor the vietnam war.
I wasn’t talking about just this rally. I was talking about the size of rallies in general, given that the article spoke of the differing crowd sizes at various anti-choice and pro-choice rallies. If you read what I wrote it is quite clear that the causes for this are what I was writing about.
I do sometimes wonder if you have source issues.
You have large rallies against abortion and to a lesser extent, some forms of contraception.
Sorry. I thought you were talking about the thing you mentioned. Silly me.
Yes, I was talking about the things I mentioned. Which was about the size of anti-choice and anti-contraception rallies in general versus pro-choice and pro-contraception rallies in general – as had been raised. Oh, and the vietnam war rallies. Hence my words talking about why the size variations of different rallies exist.
never mind :-)
The zombies on The Walking Dead look livelier.
They don’t put episode on the AMC website anymore, so I can’t watch them. :(
xalisae,
I just went back to Hulu and they don’t have full episodes either, but it looks like tv.com does. The winter break cliffhanger was a shocker.
I’ve managed to see them all live (so to speak) so I didn’t notice AMC stop the videos.
I’ve never heard of an anti-contraception rally.
But I have to agree–the proabort women always look so angry and crabby.
My bad, xalisae. They only redirect to AMC for the next-to-last episode free. :(
That guys face in the first photo cracks me up. I can’t help but giggle. You know if you were passionate about something you would think you would be actually happy to be part of the “cause” He just looks like he’s trying to blow something up with his mind.