Post by Logan on Feb 7, 2016 4:50:32 GMT -6
Anti-abortion advocates rallied in front of the new Planned Parenthood on Seventh Street on Saturday to oppose the clinic’s attempts to offer abortion services and the placement of the facility “on the doorstep of west Louisville.”
"It is really not healthy for our community to have another abortion mill located right in the heart of the inner city," said Sisters for Life President Angela Minter, one of the rally's organizers. " ... I believe it undermines the morals of our community and encourages irresponsibility, for the black community in particular, because a lot of people are uninformed about the disproportionate havoc that abortion is having on the black community.”
It was a sentiment echoed by other members of the black community in attendance, including Rick Howland, 68, who lives in the Algonquin area.
“Eighty-some-odd percent of Planned Parenthood’s facilities are always in minority neighborhoods," he said. "They don’t put them out in St. Matthews.”
Read more: www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2016/02/06/rally/79870488/
"It is really not healthy for our community to have another abortion mill located right in the heart of the inner city," said Sisters for Life President Angela Minter, one of the rally's organizers. " ... I believe it undermines the morals of our community and encourages irresponsibility, for the black community in particular, because a lot of people are uninformed about the disproportionate havoc that abortion is having on the black community.”
It was a sentiment echoed by other members of the black community in attendance, including Rick Howland, 68, who lives in the Algonquin area.
“Eighty-some-odd percent of Planned Parenthood’s facilities are always in minority neighborhoods," he said. "They don’t put them out in St. Matthews.”
Read more: www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2016/02/06/rally/79870488/