{"id":224218,"date":"2010-01-24T22:01:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T03:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/protests-brew-as-planned-parenthood-abortion-clinic-nears-opening-date\/"},"modified":"2010-01-24T22:01:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T03:01:13","slug":"protests-brew-as-planned-parenthood-abortion-clinic-nears-opening-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/224218","title":{"rendered":"Protests Brew As Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic Nears Opening Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Protest_1961_19569056_0_0_7051889_300.jpg\" alt=\"Protests brew as Planned Parenthood abortion clinic nears opening date \" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">Planned Parenthood is set to open its largest abortion center later this year in Texas, but opponents of the procedure have already started a wave of protests they hope will lead the organization to reconsider. <\/p>\n<p>Located in Houston, the building&#8212;which will encompass 78,000 square feet&#8212;will be the largest facility offering abortions in the Western world. <\/p>\n<p>A group of some 1,200 pro-lifers already held a silent protest outside the construction site on the Martin Luther King holiday, and some of them suggested the clinic was put in a minority neighborhood to target those mothers for abortion services, according to media reports. <\/p>\n<p>One of the protesters on hand, Lou Engle, a Kansas City preacher, told the local <em>ABC<\/em> station that 76 percent of abortion clinics are in Hispanic and black American neighborhoods. <\/p>\n<p>However, the news source quoted Planned Parenthood representatives as saying the allegations were &quot;shameful.&quot; They added that only 5 to 7 percent of their patient visits are for abortions, while the rest access low cost services such as Pap smears, breast exams and contraception. <\/p>\n<p>Joining pro-life advocates for the opposition rally were Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, and Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, according to <em>LifeNews.com<\/em>. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19569056-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19569056\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planned Parenthood is set to open its largest abortion center later this year in Texas, but opponents of the procedure have already started a wave of protests they hope will lead the organization to reconsider. Located in Houston, the building&#8212;which will encompass 78,000 square feet&#8212;will be the largest facility offering abortions in the Western world. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}