Planned Parenthood parties like it’s 1999 on $500 mil of our dime
L – R: Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards; actresses Tatyana Ali, Sophia Bush, Aisha Tyler, and Kate Walsh; and Rock the Vote president Heather Smith; click to enlarge…
From The Huffington Post, January 21:
“We were lucky enough to get hugs from Michelle Obama. It was like hugging America,” the lead singer of folk-rock band Delta Rae told a cheering audience at Planned Parenthood’s January 20th “Plan To Rock” event in Washington, D.C.…
The party was held at the 9:30 Club, a D.C. music scene staple, and sponsored by Planned Parenthood and Rock the Vote, a non-profit focused on getting young people to the polls.
Condoms and chocolates covered the bars while young professionals danced, drank and brushed shoulders with politicians and celebrity co-hosts Kate Walsh, Aisha Tyler, Tatyana Ali and Sophia Bush. There was even a young woman walking around dressed as a life-size pack of birth control pills….
In addition to Q-Tip’s set and a performance from Delta Rae, party-goers were treated to energetic speeches from Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards – decked out in a sequined mini-dress – along with Tyler and Walsh.
Planned Parenthood will say the Planned Parenthood Action Fund co-sponsored its soirée. Indeed, if you look hard you can see PPAF’s name in the fine print on the photo backdrop above.
But PPAF isn’t noted in the stage backdrop. Names as well as funds are fungible in Planned Parenthood World. And that world now snags over $500 million in taxpayer funding every year.
(Word to the wise. Before getting snarky about the expense of Richards’ gold sequined dress, know that she’s worn it before. Although that doesn’t necessarily mean we didn’t pay for it. It just means she recycles.)
Below are more photos. (Larger views of individual photos are available here.)
The bottom middle photo is of Richards with abortionist Kenneth Edelin and his wife Barbara. In 1975 Edelin was convicted of manslaughter in the death of a 20-24 week, 1.5 pound preborn baby he aborted and sentenced to one year of probation. The Massachusetts Supreme Court overturned the conviction in 1976.
Bottom right photo is of Richards and two of her three children.
Richards should see how the other half – who paid for her party – lives sometime.
At The Dubliner with pro-life friends in town for the March for Life, we all paid for our own food and bought each other drinks. We sang along with an Irish folk singer.
And I didn’t see one gold sequined mini-dress.
[HT: Carole of Life Dynamics; top and middle photo via Getty Images; bottom montage via Washington Life]
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.
That insipid birth control pack costume is one they use out in the public to snag attention. Really wierd.
This site gave me what I really wanted to see: pictures of the 750,000 STRONG epic D.C> 2013 March For LIFE!!! It was as incredible as anticipated. God help the snow for the last quarter of the March, and it really gave the event just the right touch of magic.
I would much rather be looking at photo’s of what happened at the Dubliner Friday night!!!
I wouldn’t call wearing the same party dress twice “recycling” lol. Just being practical. I remember reading a Vogue (or some other fancy fashion establishment) essay, years ago, that highlighted glamorous women wearing the same dress more than once as a positive, not negative, fashion statement. Something about truly owning their own style rather than just buying or borrowing a new look for every party. I hope other people think like that because I go to several black-tie events a year and often “recycle” my best dresses, haha! :P
Tatyana Ali was in Nick Cannon’s “Can I live” video that is about how his mom almost aborted him. Why would she turn around and support PP?
Can someone explain Tatyana Ali? She goes from starring in Nick Cannon’s “Can I Live?” to this PP abortion fest. Can’t figure out this one.
“We were lucky enough to get hugs from Michelle Obama. It was like hugging America,”
Puke.
yawn
Street theater and condoms with chocolate. What’s new?!!!
“Street theater”
Being performed by unhinged nutcases, none the less.
Pretty ironic of you, Tatyana Ali and Aisha Tyler, cozying up to Cecile Richards. If she and her organization had their way…
you wouldn’t even have been born.
JDC,
Unhinged nut cases!! YES! How could I forget?? :)
I watched Nick Cannon’s “Can I Live?” video with Tatiana playing Cannon’s 17 yo mother portraying her running out of the abortion clinic. I have no idea what happened. Did she just do it for the money or what? I don’t get it either Sydney M or jim sable.
Pamela,
@ January 29, 2013 at 4:23 pm
My mother used to say, “There is no one so blind as one who will not (chooses not to) see”…
Black people support this organization and all other pro-abortion organizations at their own peril…today, it’s abortion…tomorrow, it will be…