{"id":201845,"date":"2019-05-10T18:58:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T23:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=201845"},"modified":"2019-05-10T18:59:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T23:59:01","slug":"rally-against-bullying-thousand-pro-lifers-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/rally-against-bullying-thousand-pro-lifers-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Rally Against Bullying’ draws a thousand pro-lifers to Philadelphia Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A thousand pro-life activists gathered outside the Planned Parenthood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Friday in response to aggressive bully tactics from pro-abortion State Representative Brian Sims. The Pennsylvania representative received pushback from pro-lifers and even some pro-choicers after he posted videos on social media of himself\u00a0harassing an elderly pro-lifer<\/a>\u00a0praying the rosary (to whom he referred as an \u201cold white lady\u201d) outside a Planned Parenthood which has failed more than half of its recent health inspections. In addition, Sims\u00a0harassed three teenagers and their mother<\/a>, offering to donate $100 to Planned Parenthood if his social media followers would give him the names and addresses of the minors, something known as “doxxing.”<\/p>\n

The event was organized by Live Action and other national leaders.\u00a0Live Action president and founder Lila Rose\u00a0told<\/a> CBS Philly that the large pro-life crowd showed “the strength of the pro-life community, that the pro-life community in Philadelphia and beyond will not back down to violence, bullying and intimidation.”<\/p>\n

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Thousands of pro-life people gathered outside Planned Parenthood to call for Brian Sims to resign (Image: CBS Philly)<\/p><\/div>\n

Nationwide, violence<\/a> against pro-lifers — especially those in front of abortion facilities — has been increasing. Recently, an elderly pro-life woman was assaulted and injured<\/a> after she was attacked<\/a>\u00a0while exercising her constitutionally-protected right of assembly and free speech. Pro-life organizations on campus such as Students for Life<\/a> and Created Equal<\/a> are also seeing increased pro-abortion violence, often ignored<\/a> by the media.<\/p>\n

Rose, who has gone undercover inside Planned Parenthood, noted the abortion business’s complicity in covering up the suspected and known sexual abuse of children. Last year, Live Action released<\/a> a report and docuseries<\/a> exposing this systemic cover-up at Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n