Des Moines Residents Take Part in National Day of Protest Against Planned

The protests happened in front of more than 300 Planned Parenthood clinics across the country on Saturday, including in Boise, Meridian and Twin Falls.

Organizers say the goal of the protests is to create enough support that lawmakers would cut off the organization’s federal funding, forcing Planned Parenthood to close.

They said their intent in gathering was to pray and to call on other government officials nationwide to defund Planned Parenthood.

The goal was to draw attention to recent videos showing Planned Parenthood staffers talking about the sale of fetal tissue for profit. “We’d like it to be defunded”, Sneddon said.

The national uproar over Planned Parenthood and its baby parts trafficking scandal has sparked a national protest of the abortion giant. “It is time that Planned Parenthood closed its doors forever”, Jim Sedlak, a vice president at American Life League, an anti-abortion organization, said in a statement. “I don’t think they’d get much”. A series of secretly recorded videos – seven so far – and interviews with a whistleblower were done by the Center for Medical Progress.

Planned Parenthood says it donates the tissue for research and receives only reimbursements, which is legal.

“Extremists who oppose Planned Parenthood’s mission and services are making outrageous and completely false claims”.

The task on Saturday is straightforward, Harrington says: show up with a sign and stand with other pro-lifers.