Forced Birthers prove that they don't understand irony - or perhaps it's just that their hypocrisy knows no bounds.
Excerpted from:
The Most Creative Ways That Anti-Choice Activists Try To Shut Down Abortion Clinics
In Kansas:
[citing] their own disruptive protests — including graphic anti-abortion signs that they said may be “inappropriate” for children ... [forced birthers say] abortion providers shouldn’t be allowed to operate their businesses because they attract too many anti-choice protesters to otherwise quiet neighborhoods...
One anti-abortion activist argued that the clinic’s new owner would “provoke” gun violence.
In Alabama:
Last fall, while arguing in court that North Alabama’s only abortion clinic shouldn’t be allowed to continue operating, lawyers representing an anti-abortion group played videos of confrontations between abortion protesters and clinic escorts. They argued that the arguments in front of the clinic would be too noisy for the neighbors, and the surrounding area shouldn’t be subject to the potential disruption. James Henderson, the executive director of the Alabama Christian Coalition, testified that the clinic needs to go because he faces “the risk of personal physical injury” during his own protests at the site.
Lest anyone believe that California doesn't have its share of whackos:
“Of all the well-documented abuses of the California Environmental Quality Act, this one may be the most absurd,” an editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle lamented this week. [A]bortion opponents have been waging a legal battle against a Planned Parenthood clinic because they say it’s in violation of the California Environmental Quality Act — alleging that the clinic will result in significant “environmental impacts” to the region because of the noise and the traffic disruptions stemming from their own protests.
I have to stop being surprised at the audacity of these idiots daring to present such ludicrous claims in court because, so far, no judge has thrown them out for wasting the court's time. It is, nonetheless, outrageous that they're playing the courts for fools and getting away with it. Each time they're allowed impunity to do this, they grow bolder.
Read the full article at Think Progress. It's detailed, with far more examples of ways the Forced Birthers have successfully blocked or derailed abortion clinics, and it's a great piece of reporting. Here's the link again:
The Most Creative Ways That Anti-Choice Activists Try To Shut Down Abortion Clinics