{"id":199925,"date":"2019-04-12T13:06:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T18:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=199925"},"modified":"2019-04-11T02:02:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T07:02:53","slug":"iowa-pro-lifers-counter-planned-parenthood-billboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/iowa-pro-lifers-counter-planned-parenthood-billboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa pro-lifers counter Planned Parenthood billboard campaign with their own"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Planned Parenthood&#8217;s efforts to normalize abortion have reached all the way to billboards, and Iowa&#8217;s pro-lifers aren&#8217;t having it. That&#8217;s why Iowans For Life (IFL) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/caffeinatedthoughts.com\/2019\/04\/iowa-pro-life-coalition-launches-50k-billboard-campaign\/?fbclid=IwAR0hEKAPVW-VcPXxiD3-XFUcYbCSe3h97-A_BDsTX2dHNTXxP2WyoZtpeaA\">Iowa\u00a0Coalition of Pro-Life Leaders<\/a>\u00a0have launched their own billboard campaign. The initiative, titled #SayLifeIowa, is a response to Planned Parenthood&#8217;s #SayAbortion campaign, which attempts to portray abortion as normal &#8220;healthcare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe HAD to respond to Planned Parenthood&#8217;s outrageous billboard campaign,\u201d IFL executive director Maggie DeWitte <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/iowa-pro-life-groups-respond-to-pp-billboard-campaign-with-their-own-saylifeiowa-billboards\">told<\/a> LifeSiteNews. &#8220;We have to show the true side of abortion; that it certainly is NOT healthcare, it hurts women, and destroys lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Planned Parenthood billboards contain photos of women who have had an abortion, and they contain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/iowa-pro-life-groups-respond-to-pp-billboard-campaign-with-their-own-saylifeiowa-billboards\">statements<\/a> like &#8220;I had an abortion and I am not ashamed,&#8221; or &#8220;I had an abortion and I am not apologizing.&#8221; When the billboards appeared, IFL and the Coalition of Pro-Life Leaders sprang to action, quickly setting up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowansforlife.org\/say-life-iowa\/?fbclid=IwAR1dlETUn9pcm2osko_rTyP5bxsdiA0ok9_aCpOZfn_b6hfcKf16fL9TNVc\">webpage<\/a> and raising funds to launch their own counter campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We immediately raised funds to counter with our own billboard campaign which mimics Planned Parenthood&#8217;s look, but with the other side of the abortion position displayed,&#8221; said Tom Quiner, board president of IFL.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FIowansForLife%2Fposts%2F2337593112918484&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"472\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/women-planned-parenthood-billboard-abortion\/\">Women of Planned Parenthood\u2019s billboard campaign are actually abortion workers<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While these aren&#8217;t the first pro-life billboards, they might just be the first of their kind. While other pro-life campaigns aim to convey heartwarming encouragement for choosing life, these billboards focus on post-abortive pain,\u00a0trauma, and regret.\u00a0&#8220;Our billboards are a direct rebuttal to Planned Parenthood\u2019s messaging by presenting the reality of the pain, violence, and degradation of human abortion,&#8221; said Quiner.<\/p>\n<p>With nine different designs, the pro-life billboards feature testimonies from women who share the heartache caused by abortion. Each woman&#8217;s photo is shown and her name is given to emphasize that these stories are real. &#8220;My abortion caused years of self hate,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowansforlife.org\/say-life-iowa\/\">reads<\/a> one billboard. &#8220;My abortion caused physical and emotional trauma,&#8221; says another. One billboard features a woman who lost her life to abortion, reading, &#8220;Abortion killed me and my baby.&#8221;\u00a0All but one billboard is a sobering\u00a0one. The final features a smiling woman, reading, &#8220;I rejected abortion and you can too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Once they are all hung, the billboards will be in Des Moines, Cedar Falls\/Waterloo, Ames, Iowa City, and Council Bluffs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a> for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planned Parenthood&#8217;s efforts to normalize abortion have reached all the way to billboards, and Iowa&#8217;s pro-lifers aren&#8217;t having it. That&#8217;s why Iowans For Life (IFL) and the Iowa\u00a0Coalition of Pro-Life Leaders\u00a0have launched their own billboard campaign. 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