Pro-life and abortion activists alike gathered outside the U.S. Supreme Court building today awaiting the hearing on an important abortion case out of Texas.
The U.S. Supreme Court case Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt was bought by abortion businesses against a pro-life Texas law responsible for closing abortion clinics that could not guarantee they could protect the health of Texas women. The law has been credited with saving the lives of more than 10,000 unborn children.
Among the pro-abortion speakers was the Rev. Debra Haffner, a Jewish Unitarian Universalist who “preached” in favor of abortion in front of the Supreme Court Building. Haffner is a former Planned Parenthood medical director and a pal of pro-abortion President Barack Obama.
She tweeted this morning:
What a treat! Preaching it out at the Supreme Court! #stopthesham pic.twitter.com/GSdePxdae3
— Rev.Dr.Debra Haffner (@RevDebra) March 2, 2016
“As a religious leader I believe everyone has the right to make their own moral decisions.” @RevDebra #StopTheSham pic.twitter.com/mJl8NpQqj7 — CenterforReproRights (@ReproRights) March 2, 2016
.@RevDebra: “The sin is not abortion…the sin is denying people #reprohealth care!” #StopTheSham
— ReproDocs (@reprodocs) March 2, 2016
Praying for @ReproRights attorney and justices this am. — Rev.Dr.Debra Haffner (@RevDebra) March 2, 2016
“Abortion is always a moral decision.” @RevDebra from @ReligiousInst #keepclinicsopen #StopTheSham
— NARAL (@NARAL) March 2, 2016
“As a religious leader I believe everyone has the right to make their own moral decisions.” @RevDebra #StopTheSham pic.twitter.com/mJl8NpQqj7
— CenterforReproRights (@ReproRights) March 2, 2016
Another abortion advocate claimed Haffner’s voice was one of the loudest in the crowd:
.@RevDebra is one of the loudest voices reminding people that choice vs anti choice is not about secular vs religious. #StopTheSham
— Katie Klabusich (@Katie_Speak) March 2, 2016
It’s interesting that Haffner referred to abortion as a moral decision because polling consistently shows that a majority of Americans believe abortion is morally wrong.
The stakes are high in the case. If the Supreme Court rules with abortion activists, common sense laws such as parental consent for minors and abortion clinic regulations could be wiped out, and full-fledged taxpayer funded abortions and partial-birth abortions could become common. Most Americans do not want to see these things come about, but these are the things abortion activists like Haffner are fighting for.
