Anti-Abortion Demonstration

Choose life!  Outrage over recent videos about Planned Parenthood selling aborted babies and body parts has energized and increased the number of demonstrators at an anti-abortion demonstration outside the Planned Parenthood of Illinois facility in Aurora, Illinois (the building is out of the picture half a block to the right).  This is part of 290 demonstrations in the U.S. organized against Planned Parenthood today.

One young woman's sign was particularly striking to me: "I regret my decision to have an abortion".  It takes guts and commitment to parade in a public place announcing this to the city.

A monthly anti-abortion demonstration has taken place in Aurora since October 2007 when the facility opened, but with smaller numbers of demonstrators.

Today I saw a parade of people 0.75 mile long marching down the sidewalk, plus many more milling in the area of the PP building. The parking lot of the nearby Catholic church was filled over capacity with vehicles, as were other parking lots in the area.  At 10:45 am I estimate the demonstrator crowd at 1500-2000.

This is not the usual blip - take a stand, choose life!