Democratic National Abortion Convention, Day 1: Beep beep! Step aboard the abortion bus
“Safe, legal and rare” is history – today’s Democratic Party is the Shout Your Abortion Party.
Today the Democrats kick off their party convention in Chicago. With a greater focus on abortion than in any previous year, it may as well be titled the Democratic National Abortion Convention. Follow us @sbaprolife for analysis throughout the week.
President Biden speaks tonight. The Democrats’ theme for today is “For the People.” At least one Democrat-allied group has interpreted that theme to mean free abortions for the people – abortion giant Planned Parenthood set up camp to offer attendees complimentary abortion drugs (details at the Daily Caller).
Lest anyone get too excited, slots are allegedly sold out—er, filled. But for those who cannot get an appointment, Planned Parenthood recommends its mobile app (which dispenses abortion drugs by mail “completely free of face-to-face interaction with a clinician.” Their words, not ours).
Even the protestors are dressed as abortion drugs…
Abortion RVs, robots and “pill-packing parties”
Planned Parenthood rolled out its first abortion RV after Dobbs, the better to trawl the borders of pro-life states drumming up business.
Make no mistake, such cavalier attitudes toward dangerous, life-ending drugs are a mainstream fixture in the pro-abortion movement. Remember the abortion drug robot we encountered outside the Supreme Court earlier this year? And new this month, The Wall Street Journal takes us inside “pill-packing parties” where activists sip Chardonnay from plastic cups while assembling hundreds of DIY abortion drug kits to mass-mail across the borders of states where these drugs are rightly illegal. “Prospective patients fill out intake forms online and mainly correspond by email,” the Journal reports.
Elizabeth, who described her drug-induced abortion as “the worst experience of my life” when she shared her story with us back in January, knows first-hand Planned Parenthood’s idea of customer service: “My entire experience proved that my care was less important to them than the $800 my boyfriend slid across the table.”
Some mustard with your abortion trauma?
As America’s reigning king of abortion businesses, Planned Parenthood is hardly new to crass marketing stunts. However, a promo offering a free hot dog with every abortion might just take the cake:
The free grub will surely make up for the many other unadvertised, potential “freebies” that go along with this offer, such as:
Severe pain
Significant blood loss, including large blood clots
Infection
Emergency surgery
Rupture of undiagnosed ectopic pregnancy
Increased risk of cardiovascular disease
Depression/anxiety
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Substance abuse
Suicidal ideation
Women like Toni have learned through hard experience that the Democrats’ promises of “freedom” through abortion are lies:
When Toni McFadden walked into a Planned Parenthood [abortion center] at the age of 18, she didn’t feel free. She felt cornered.
After learning she was pregnant, she was “terrified and looking for someone, anyone, to tell me it would be OK,” Ms. McFadden said. Instead, her boyfriend encouraged her to have an abortion.
“I shared the news with my boyfriend, hoping he would be supportive. He said, ‘You don’t want to keep it, do you?’” she recalled. “I felt trapped.”
After she took the abortion drugs, Toni tells us, at first, nothing happened. When she called Planned Parenthood back to ask questions, they hung up on her. Several weeks later while sitting in class, she unexpectedly began hemorrhaging fist-sized blood clots.
One in 25 women who take abortion drugs will land in the emergency room, according to the FDA’s label. Who will be there to follow up with women once the Democrats’ National Abortion Convention is over and everyone has gone home? Almost certainly not Planned Parenthood. Most likely, that will fall to local ER doctors who may not even be aware that their patient’s complications stem from a “free” abortion from a bus at a convention.
Revulsion across the spectrum
Some observers rightly pointed out that taxpayers are helping fund Planned Parenthood’s abortion bus:
Some found the bus confusing (so do we):
More than a few of the self-identified moderate and pro-choice were rubbed the wrong way:
SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser, in response, has a frank message for the Democrats today:
“Stop ignoring the real needs of women nationwide and show that you value mothers and their babies, not just abortion.”