If you don't build it, they can't come
Building contractors in Austin, Texas, have organized a city-wide boycott to prevent construction of a Planned Parenthood clinic that will perform abortions.
The builders want to make sure concrete, building materials and workers are not available to erect the $6.2 million facility, planned for a site south of downtown where the project is scheduled to break ground today, the Associated Press reported.
"We're going to do everything we can to stop it, slow it down and make it more expensive," said Chris Danze, an Austin concrete contractor, according to the AP.
Danze, chairman of the Austin Area Pro-Life Concrete Contractors and Suppliers Association, said every concrete supplier within 60 miles of Austin is on board with the boycott.
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This is pretty interesting especially that a Pro-Life Concrete Contractors and Suppliers Association exists.
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300 cheers for you guys. Nothing makes the abortion crowd scream louder than having a dose of sanity introduced into the situation. Jack Kime
What is the matter with you people? You have been brainwashed. WAKE UP! Let people live there own lives. Life is not about some guy that lived 2000 years ago. It is about the golden rule, not religion. Be at peace with yourself and others. Thankfully this nation was founded on freedom of religion. Otherwise, people like y'all would be ruling us like the Taliban.
I applaud the efforts of Chris Danze. The matter is they have a heart. They ARE trying to let "people" - all people - even the ones still in the womb, LIVE their own lives.
"Life is not about some guy that lived 2000 years ago. It is about the golden rule, not religion" says Jack.
Duh. The Golden Rule was given by Jesus, the guy that lived 2000 years ago.
You are correct. It is about the Golden Rule. We should save the babies, not kill them. We should treat the young expectant mothers with a kindness and generosity that makes them know that they are perfectly safe to have their baby regardless of the circumstances. They should be treated in a fashion that gives hope, instead of creating dispair.
And, unlike abortions, this all should be given free of charge.
Planned Parenthood is a business that creates millions of dollars in salaries that pay for mansions of their leadership and their contractors to live in. And every nickel of that money is extracted from young women who are terrified to face the birth of their child.
Do unto others...
You cannot force one human being to risk their life to support that of another. There can be no law mandating that I provide a kidney to my dying friend, even if it would save her life. It cannot mandate that I do it to save my daughter. Why? Because I have the right to control my own health and life. It is my own morals that dictate whether or not I will risk my health and life to sustain that of another.
Why is it different for abortion, which is a choice reserved strictly for women? It is because deep seeded misogyny says that women are not capable of making their own decisions. There is a great fear of independent women in this country, and what better way than to stop that than by co-opting them into motherhood and then not providing maternity benefits, health care for them or their children, pre-natal care, or child care.
If you are truly pro-life and not just anti-choice, I suggest you stop fighting women's independence and start fighting for support systems for mothers and families.
Pro-Choice Patriot,
If you are truly pro-choice then you and planned parenthood will start building womens pregnancy centers so that they can have their children. Many women seek abortions because of financial reasons and those around them not supporting or encouraging them. You say you are for choice, but all the money and effort is only going on the side of abortion. How many people talk to a Planned Parenthood counselor and are told not to get an abortion? It is a rigged game since only abortion brings them to a profit.
How can I be anti-choice? If I chose to be pro-life I have made a choice. The reason the term pro-choice is used is a way to avoid what they are choosing. They don't want to admit to being for abortion so they don't finish the sentence after choice. The word choice is a transitive verb and can not be at the end of a sentence.
The Catholic Church does more for for supporting mothers and families than any government or organization. We provide the majority of the infrastructure for these situations. Pro-Lifers volunteer to staff crisis pregnancy centers to help women. Do pro-aborts have any volunteer abortion clinics if they believe this is so important?
Your sentence about independent women is rather funny. The constant charge the pro-lifers are afraid of making decisions. The feminist movement of Susan B. Anthony and company greatly opposed abortion because they rightly saw how it enslaved women as sex objects. Sex without consequences is the rallying cry of men, now women. If you were to look at the history of the Catholic Church at women like Saint Catherine of Sienna, you would find not women the Church despises because they were independent, but instead the Church called them Saints.
Your argument that you can't force a human being to die for another, misses the point that in an abortion a human being is forced to die for another; usually for the sin of inconvenience. Where is the baby's choice? The truth is women are also dying in the abortuaries. Very rarely are these deaths publicized but they would out weight the deaths causes by complications from a difficult birth. Mothers dying at birth is extremely rare these days, but not women dying on the tables at the altar of abortion rights.
You religious people really need to mind your own business. I don't tell you that your morals and values are wrong and I don't expect you do judge mine. Until every single one of you abortion foes adopts a child like my parents did, please, mind your own business. If you want to help, help prevent unwanted pregnancies in the first place or help prevent the social problems that cause them. Ironic that the same religion that doesn't believe in birth control is anti-abortion.
Maybe an alternative title could be:
"If They Illegally Conspire To Impair the Obligations Of A Valid Contract, Sue 'em!"
Insomuch as it should be fairly simple to establish a nexus to interstate commerce through the withholding of building materials, the Austin Planned Parenthood group may have a cause of action for a Federal unlawful restraint of trade here. Personally, I hope Planned Parenthood goes against this joker with a vengence. Even if they ultimately lose the suit, the cost of defending a Federal lawsuit would have a chilling effect upon anyone else tempted to pull a publicity stunt like this.
Of course, they could win, get a large verdict, drive the joker out of business, and use the proceeds of a verdict to provide expanded medical care to women who cannot afford quality medical care elsewhere.
Either way, Planned Parenthood could have a win/win situation here.