The Planned Parenthood abortion business doesn’t like pro-life protestors outside its abortion centers because it knows they will draw attention to how it kills babies and help customers with pro-life alternatives.
In Chicago, abortion activists worked with Democrats to try to get a “quit zone” placed around the Family Planning Associates (FPA) abortion business in Chicago. But those efforts have failed.
Efforts to place a “quiet zone” around the Family Planning Associates (FPA) abortion business in Chicago have halted for now, though a buffer zone is still in place.
In November of 2023, Planned Parenthood and Alderman Bill Conway asked the Committee on Public Safety to ban bullhorns, speakers, and other amplification devices from the streets surrounding FPA, saying pro-lifers are “increasingly aggressive” and have been “actively running” towards women while yelling and chanting. Conway claimed pro-lifers are placing amplification devices right next to the FPA building — something even the FPA medical director denied.
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“I’ve been inside while this is going on and … you can literally feel the building shake because of this amplified intimidation,” Alderman Conway claimed. “It’s so loud that the staff at the clinic’s intake desk can barely hear what patients are saying to them.”
Eric Scheidler, executive director of Pro-Life Action League, said this is false. “They are lying. There’s no way,” he told Live Action News in November. “They say that the building is shaking. This is a brick building. If this brick building is shaking from someone using a battery-powered megaphone, then they have building code problems on their hands. … They’re lying when they say they can’t hear themselves inside the building. There’s just no way that that’s true.”
Yet Conway has been unsuccessful at passing the ordinance, as it has failed twice in six months. Last week, Ald. Nick Sposato and Ald. Ray Lopez used a parliamentary measure to delay the vote by one meeting. “Further delay of this measure will only seek to heighten this harassment,” Conway said, adding that he will try again a third time. “Do not worry. This delay will not stand. And this will pass. This very constitutional measure.”
The abortion center has repeatedly injured women in botched aboritons — something else it hopes to keep quiet.
