As Twitchy reported earlier today, Planned Parenthood is at last making good on its long-standing threat to file suit against the Center for Medical Progress, which released a series of videos showing Planned Parenthood administrators haggling over the price of organs and abortionists describing in detail their “crunching” techniques for preserving the most desired fetal body parts.
While it looks like the courts will determine if the CMP’s undercover sting of Planned Parenthood violated any laws, NARAL took the unbelievable step today of copying and tweeting this nugget from yesterday’s issue of the Guardian. Obviously the U.S. Constitution states that abortion is a right, but putting up pro-life messages on public property where people might see them? Won’t someone think of these poor clowns? They need to be rested and funny when they reach their stop.
Abortion is a constitutional right. #Antichoice messaging doesn’t belong on public property: https://t.co/alZ2SEoaJ8 @guardianus @andykopsa
— NARAL (@NARAL) January 14, 2016
Writer Andy Kopsa’s specific complaint is that pro-choicers “can make up their own facts” but “they ought be limited to spreading that harmful and deadly rhetoric on private property, not public.” Last week, however, the group Louisiana Right To Life set up banners showing a 19-month-old fetus alongside the message, “Give Her a Chance.”
This, she argues, is “a purely religious message” which 1) had to be approved by the city and the department of public works, and 2) hangs from streetlights and other publicly funded infrastructure, which means that taxpayers are being forced to “subsidize a proliferation of anti-abortion rhetoric.”
This is really outrageous. Those banners need to come down. @andykopsa https://t.co/no0QLUXjJB
— The UnSlut Project (@UnSlutProject) January 14, 2016
As a former NOLA resident the NOLA ladies are ALL over it. Keep sharing! No public funds for anti-choice groups! https://t.co/Qmk7737tpL
— Andy Kopsa (@andykopsa) January 14, 2016
@NARAL @GuardianUS @andykopsa Free speech is a constitutional right. You have right to speak against anything on public property
— Blake Pine (@LetsBanEvrythng) January 14, 2016
Just because the group is pro-life doesn’t make it a religious entity, though.
Great. I am a catholic and I had an abortion. I look forward to PPHoods non-campaign banners. Have a great Carnival https://t.co/ZGyP1F8NHr
— Andy Kopsa (@andykopsa) January 14, 2016
@andykopsa I'd support their 1st amendment right to also have banners. I focused on Free speech in law school. Everyone should have a voice.
— Dee (@Legally_De) January 14, 2016
Your First Amendment holds no power against the city’s department of public works.
Great. I look forward to your #PPAct #Prochoice advocacy. Keep me abreast of that and we can write something up. https://t.co/Uw0VEQZfaE
— Andy Kopsa (@andykopsa) January 14, 2016
I find it honestly fascinating when pro-lifers start running like scalded dogs from their religious basis. #donthideyourlightunderabushel
— Andy Kopsa (@andykopsa) January 14, 2016
If PPhood used public space and in-kind $96K taxpayer funded adverts for it #antichoicers would lose. their. minds.
— Andy Kopsa (@andykopsa) January 14, 2016
Are you kidding? Imagine if Planned Parenthood received even one taxpayer dime of funding …
