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2023
Live Action: Anti-abortion activists arrested while seeking Justice for the Five
“Seven anti-abortion activists were arrested and released Thursday in Washington, D.C. as they protested outside of the Rayburn U.S. House of Representatives building demanding justice for five of the babies discovered one year ago in a medical waste bin outside Washington SurgiClinic. The babies appear to have been killed late in pregnancy, with one estimated to have been as old as 32 weeks. It may be possible that one of the babies was born alive and left to die. On Thursday, to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the babies’ deaths, activists from the group Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) sang and chanted in the street, calling on Congress to hold hearings for the babies and to pass a federal law protecting all preborn children from abortion after the age of viability.”
Christian Post: Progressive activists continue push for justice 1 year after recovery of 5 full-term aborted babies
“The progressive pro-life group that recovered the bodies of five, [sic] full-term aborted babies from an abortion clinic in the nation's capital last year demonstrated outside the D.C. Board of Medicine Tuesday, demanding regulators revoke abortionist Cesare Santangelo's license to dispense medication… During the Tuesday press conference, PAAU founder Bukovinac was among several pro-life activists who spoke about Santangelo and raised concerns about the Washington Surgi-Clinic's practices. Other speakers included Kristin Turner, executive director of Pro-Life San Francisco and PAAU's communications director, and Pro-Life San Francisco Executive Coordinator Robert Byrd.”
Los Angeles Times: Democrats keep pushing to bolster California’s role as an abortion sanctuary
“Kristin Turner, executive director of the nonproft Pro-Life San Francisco, said AB 710 will make it harder for abortion opponents to support women during their pregnancies. But she said the legislation that concerned her most is AB 1646, which will allow out-of-state medical students to practice abortion…in California for 90 days. ’If California does this, our biggest export will be murdered children,’ Turner said. ‘If Gov. Newsom signs these bills, it won’t just be his hands that are covered in blood, it will be his entire office.’”
San Francisco Chronicle: Antiabortion activists are coming to California
“When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June, Melanie Salazar felt empowered to ramp up her fight against abortion. But her home state of Texas had already put in place laws to ban the procedure — her enthusiasm might be wasted there, she feared… ‘It’s a game of offense now, not defense,’ since Roe was overturned, Salazar said. ‘And I feel like California is the place to be.’ Salazar, who plans to move from Austin to San Francisco later this year to become a full-time activist, joins a robust antiabortion movement in California as the war over reproductive rights shifts from national campaigns to state-level skirmishes.”
NTD News: California ‘Won’t Be Doing Business’ With Walgreens Over Abortion Pill Policy: Newsom
“California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vowed that the state will no longer be doing business with Walgreens after the pharmacy chain announced that it would not be distributing abortion pills in some states across the United States.”
Sacramento Bee: ‘We’re not going away:’ Anti-abortion rally at California capitol gathers hundreds in Sacramento
“The rally had to compete for the attention of the attendees as a group of counter-protesters stood on the sidewalk along 10th Street, chanting into megaphones and activating loud, wailing sirens to disrupt the March For Life rally. Pictured: Abortion opponent Melanie Salazar of Pro Life San Francisco holds a fake fetus and forceps as she yells at abortion-rights supporters during the 2023 California March For Life at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Monday, March 6, 2023.”
Christian Post: Major pharmacy chain won't dispense abortion pill in some states amid pro-life backlash
"According to a 2021 peer-reviewed longitudinal study conducted by the pro-life research organization Charlotte Lozier Institute, the rate of emergency room visits after a chemical abortion increased by over 500% from 2002 through 2015... In response to pharmacy chains taking steps to dispense the abortion pill, various pro-life groups, including the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, Rehumanize International, the Society for Truth and Justice, the Pro-Life Action League, Pro-Life San Francisco and Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust conducted nationwide protests through the #StopAbortionRx campaign.”
Live Action: Pro-life activists arrested while distributing literature outside UCSF hospital
"On Friday, February 24, activists affiliated with Pro-Life San Francisco and Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust were arrested following a gathering at an outdoor plaza on the campus of Zuckerberg San Francisco General, a hospital which commits abortions and trains abortionists in affiliation with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).”
Christian Post: Pro-life activists 'unlawfully arrested' for protesting fetal organ harvesting outside San Francisco hospital
"Pro-life activists say they were unlawfully arrested for handing out flyers outside a San Francisco hospital they believe is using aborted babies' remains in fetal tissue research. The group Pro-Life San Francisco announced on Twitter Friday that two of its [sic] pro-life activists were “unlawfully” arrested for “passing out flyers on public property” at an outdoor plaza outside Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.”
Citizens Journal: Activists Arrested While Distributing Flyers at UCSF’s General Hospital
"On Friday, February 24, 2023, members of Pro-Life San Francisco and Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust arrived at an outdoor plaza of Zuckerberg San Francisco General at about 2:20 PM to hand out literature, display signs, make speeches, and engage in street theater to increase public awareness of unethical activity and the likelihood of crimes taking place on the 6th floor of the hospital. They were soon interrupted by uniformed Sheriff’s deputies who declared their gathering an unlawful assembly. According to video footage, two participants were arrested at 2:52 PM: Tim Clement, Outreach Director of Survivors, and Anastasia Rogers, a San Francisco resident and animal-rights activist.”
The State Press: Anti-abortion activist arrested after climbing Arizona's 40-story Chase Tower to raise money
"An anti-abortion activist was taken into custody by the Phoenix Police Department Tuesday morning after scaling the now vacant 40-story, 483-foot Chase Tower in downtown Phoenix, just a few blocks away from ASU's Downtown Phoenix campus. He faces criminal trespassing and nuisance charges. The 23-year-old man, Maison DesChamps, also known as 'Pro-Life Spider-Man,' free-climbed the tower around 9:45 a.m. bringing awareness for an anti-abortion charity that raises money for its efforts to persuade people not to have an abortion. This isn't the first time DesChamps climbed a building on behalf of an anti-abortion organization — he's scaled buildings in New York City, Oklahoma City, San Francisco and other major cities... Kristin Turner, executive director of Pro-Life San Francisco, met DesChamps after he climbed the city's highest skyscraper, which was over 1,000 feet tall. According to Turner, a prayer vigil was held Tuesday moments before DesChamps' ascent. She was one of a few speakers attending the rally on behalf of DesChamps."
Epoch Times: Tens of Thousands Attend Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco
"Walk for Life West Coast held its 19th annual rally and walk in San Francisco on Jan. 21, one day before the 50th anniversary of the historical Roe V. Wade decision. The event started with a rally at Civic Center Plaza outside City Hall with two stages and several speakers. Then participants walked through the city down Market Street... Robert Byrd, the executive coordinator for activist group Pro-Life San Francisco, told The Epoch Times during the rally that abortion laws have changed recently in California. 'Last fall, with Proposition 1, which California leaders poorly educated the voting population on—it created it so that elective abortion, abortion without any medical reason, was legal throughout birth,' Byrd said."
NTD News: Tens of Thousands Attend Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco
“Walk for Life West Coast held its 19th annual rally and walk in San Francisco. Organizers estimate around 30,000 people participated this year.”
Christian Post: Hundreds take part in dueling rallies at Supreme Court on Roe v. Wade's 50th anniversary
“Pro-life and pro-choice advocates held opposing demonstrations outside the U.S. Supreme Court Building Sunday on the 50th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade abortion ruling, with both sides speaking on where their respective movements plan to go from here. The Women’s March advocacy group held its 'Bigger Than Roe' rally in Madison, Wisconsin and sister marches in other cities throughout the United States as a message to lawmakers that their 'movement is strong' and growing. Representatives of various pro-life groups, including Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, Pro-Life San Francisco and Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust held a rally outside the Supreme Court on the same day, two days after the annual March for Life.”
LifeNews: Pro-Life Democrats Protest at Democrat Party HQ: Stop Pushing “Baby Genocide”
Coinciding with two new polls showing growing support for abortion limits, pro-life Democrats and progressives held a rally Wednesday outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters to urge party leaders to re-think their radical pro-abortion position. The Democratic Party platform is extreme and out of touch with most Americans, and recently its leaders have refused to even listen to Democrats who believe unborn babies deserve protections and care. So, pro-life advocates with Democrats for Life, Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) and Pro-Life San Francisco showed up outside its Washington, D.C. headquarters this week with signs urging the party to be 'Pro-life for the whole life' and end 'baby genocide.'"
2022
ABC 7 Bay Area: 'Battleground' documentary details the anti-abortion movement
“Filmmaker Cynthia Lowen began the process of making the new documentary film ‘Battleground’ with a genuine curiosity about the anti-abortion movement… ’Battleground’ features three women in influential positions within the anti-abortion movement: the president of an influential anti-abortion lobbying organization, the founder of the largest anti-abortion youth organization in the country, and the founder of Pro-Life San Francisco.”
The Denver Gazette: Dispatch from the Denver Film Festival: Day 7
"Quote of the day: '...At our L.A. premiere, we had anti- and pro-choice people there, and it was the most civil conversation I have seen around the issue — ever. We have to stop making content that only reinforces what we already believe. We have to make content that can bring people together, and I think this film does.'
– 'Battleground' Executive Producer Nicole Shipley."
Fox News: Coalition to stop California from enshrining abortion in constitution is bipartisan, diverse: 'Too extreme'
“A diverse bipartisan coalition of Californians is leading the charge against a ballot measure to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution, including some pro-choice voters who find the proposed amendment ‘too extreme.’ "Our diverse coalition and the coalition itself does not take a stance when it comes to the morality of abortion,’ said Catherine Hadro, a spokesperson for California Together, No on Proposition 1, which held a press conference last Thursday at the California state Capitol in Sacramento.”
Catholic News Agency: California voters must reject ‘no limit’ Proposition 1 abortion amendment, critics say
“Unlimited abortion would become a fundamental right, as would abortion on viable unborn children, if voters pass the proposed California ballot measure Proposition 1, a broad coalition has warned. ‘The proposed amendment to the state constitution has no language on limits and no recognition of the viability of the infant and late-term pregnancies,’ Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento said at an Oct. 6 press conference outside the capitol in Sacramento… The California Together, No On Proposition 1 press conference drew speakers from various political and religious backgrounds, including Catholics, evangelicals, Muslims, and backers and foes of legal abortion.”
NTD News: Pro-Life, Pro-Abortion Groups Clash Over Prop 1 at UC Berkeley
“Opposers and proponents of new abortion-related legislation squared off at a California university campus on Friday. Proposition 1 will change the abortion laws in the state. Opponents say that some are being misled by the vague language in it and they believe most Californians will vote it down when they realize what it does.”
The Daily Cal: ‘You need to stand up’: Abortion rally at Sather Gate brings in both sides of divided issue
“‘Our main goal was trying to get people to understand that Prop. 1 exists and that they should do more research on it and that they should vote against it,’ said Kristin Turner, executive director of Pro-Life San Francisco and one of the organizers of the anti-abortion protest. Prop. 1, which was passed by the California State Assembly in June, is on the November 2022 ballot. If amended, it will prohibit the state from interfering with an individual’s ‘fundamental right’ to choose to have an abortion and to choose or refuse contraceptives, according to the measure’s text.”
23ABC News: Two opposing groups attend abortion protest at University of California Berkeley
“Pro-Life San Francisco, is asking voters to vote No on Prop 1 in this year's elections. Proposition 1 would amend the California constitution to establish a right to reproductive freedom, which would include abortion. ‘I do think, though, that there are lots of students taking photos, videos, who probably never even knew what Prop 1 was, who now do, and that really was our purpose,’ said Anastasia Rogers, a member of Pro-Life San Francisco. Meanwhile, a separate group named Rise Up for Abortion Rights came out in larger numbers, chanting ‘a baby is not a baby until it comes out.’”
The San Francisco Standard: Anti-Abortion Protesters Travel From as Far as South Carolina to Crash San Francisco Women’s Equality Speech
“The scene descended into a shouting match between attendees and protesters, including those from the group Pro-Life San Francisco, with Stefani at one point evoking the lives lost at Uvalde and Sandy Hook and shouting back, ‘are you pro-life for kids that are dying in their classrooms? I don’t think so!’ The protesters said they were voicing their opposition to California’s Proposition 1, which will be on the ballot in November and would amend the California State Constitution to guarantee reproductive freedoms. Hayden Laye, an organizer with a group called pro-life LGBTQ+, says they traveled from South Carolina to attend the protest. Laye emphasized that they are a Democrat and sides with the party on most issues, but believes that life begins at fertilization.”
Fox News: Progressive pro-lifers throw wrench into media abortion narrative
“Progressive, atheist, feminist and vegan animal rights advocates Terrisa Bukovinac and Kristin Turner might not fit the mainstream media's stereotypical mold of pro-life activists, but the prominent voices of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising and Pro-Life San Francisco think they walk the walk in championing equality for all, including the unborn.”
Washington Post: Antiabortion activists sentenced for trespassing at Alexandria clinic
“Two antiabortion activists who claimed earlier this year to have obtained dozens of fetuses from a D.C. facility that provides abortions were sent to jail Tuesday for trespassing at an Alexandria women’s clinic last year. Lauren Handy, who faces similar charges in multiple cases around the country, was sentenced in Alexandria District Court to 30 days in jail, starting immediately. Terrisa Bukovinac was sentenced to four days. The two were among six activists who, in November 2021, trespassed in the waiting room of the Alexandria Women’s Health Clinic, handing out roses to women and advocating against abortion, according to news reports and a news release from the women. The other four were Joan Andrews Bell, Kristin Turner, Cassidy Shooltz and Jonathan Darnel.”
Christian Post: Pro-lifers jailed for trespassing at Virginia abortion clinic vow to continue 'radical acts of love'
“The Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, a group of liberal pro-life activists, announced in a statement Tuesday that the advocates ‘were jailed after pleading “no contest” to trespassing charges related to a Rescue at the Alexandria Women's Center, the largest abortion business in Northern Virginia, on November 16th, 2021.’ The announcement followed a trial in Alexandria Circuit Court in the Washington, D.C. suburb earlier in the day. ’Joan Andrews Bell, Terrisa Bukovinac, Lauren Handy, Kristin Turner, Cassidy Shooltz, [and] Jonathan Darnel were engaged in a Pink Rose Rescue, a nonviolent direct action in which activists enter abortion businesses, hand out life-affirming literature, pink roses and offer hope and financial resources to the patients at risk of exploitation by the Abortion Industrial Complex,’ the statement reads...”
Live Action: Six pro-life activists sentenced for trespassing at abortion facility in Virginia
“On Tuesday, July 12, six pro-life activists — Terrisa Bukovinac, Lauren Handy, Kristin Turner, and Cassidy Shooltz of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU), and well as Joan Andrews Bell, founder of the Apostolate of Gloria Dei, and Jonathan Darnell, founder of Get Serious Church — were tried and sentenced for level 1 trespassing as a consequence of pro-life activism… The six were arrested on November 16, 2021 after entering the Alexandria Women’s Center for a Pink Rose Rescue action, which a PAAU press release defines as ‘a nonviolent direct action in which activists enter abortion businesses, hand out life-affirming literature [and] pink roses[,] and offer hope and financial resources…’
Staff eventually separated clients from the activists, taking them into a separate room, at which point the pro-lifers broke out in song and gave speeches until they were taken away by police… Kristin Turner, Director of Communications for PAAU, stated: ‘The only guilty party is a court that imprisons people for putting themselves in between a butcher and a baby, but gives no punishment to the killer.’”
New York Times: ‘The Pro-Life Generation’: Young Women Fight Against Abortion Rights
“The rollback of abortion rights has been received by many American women with a sense of shock and fear, and warnings about an ominous decline in women’s status as full citizens. But for some women, the decision meant something different: a triumph of human rights, not an impediment to women’s rights.”
Live Action: Abortion Activists Disrupt More Church Services
“Since a draft opinion on the pending Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was leaked on May 2, some abortion advocates have been vandalizing churches and disrupting religious services in protest. This past weekend saw more of the same…”
California Catholic Daily: Atheists Defend SF Cathedral - ‘SF Pro-Life’ Foils Abortion Supporters At St. Mary’s
“On May 4, 2022, at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone ordained two men to the priesthood in the Archdiocese of San Francisco… The ordinations were almost disrupted by the presence of a small group of pro-abortion protestors, but they were countered by an equally small, albeit much younger and more energetic group, from Pro-Life San Francisco.”
New York Times: Demonstrators Gathered At Supreme Court Lament, And Celebrate, Leaked Draft
“Scores of protesters took to the steps in front of the Supreme Court on Tuesday hours after a draft opinion overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision leaked. Armed with megaphones, signs, buttons and at least one letterpress for speedy poster production, groups supporting and opposing abortion rights demonstrated and occasionally confronted one another in front of the barricaded court… ‘When we landed at DCA, turned on our phones, we saw the news about the Supreme Court leak and, you know, a range of emotions. As soon as we were able to, we joined our colleagues and friends and booked it to come to rally in celebration last night and, of course, got like three hours of sleep and returned here in the morning,’ said Robert Byrd, 29, an activist with Pro-Life San Francisco.”
The Pillar: Lauren Handy, Activists Continue Protests, Congress Amplifies Calls For Action
“Activist Lauren Handy called on Washington, D.C. officials Friday to autopsy the bodies of unborn babies she says might have been killed through illegal abortion procedures. Handy spoke at a rally outside the office of the city’s Chief Medical Examiner… Terrisa Bukovinac, founder of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, spoke alongside Handy, and emphasized her horror at what they had seen two weeks prior. ‘We opened the plastic containers that contained the babies that are pictured in front of you today,’ Bukovinac told the crowd…
Speakers highlighted the paucity of D.C. laws regarding partial-birth abortion or protections for children born alive during the procedure… ‘We can end this gruesome practice that not only happens here, but happens across the country,’ said [Kristin] Turner of Pro-Life San Francisco. ‘My work in San Francisco is extremely similar. These abortionists are doing abortions, high likelihood of live birth, and no accountability.’”
CBN News: Washington University Accused Of Running The 'Amazon Of Baby Body Parts'
“A group of pro-life organizations announced they've discovered aborted human fetuses being kept in labeled paper bags and boxes in a walk-in freezer at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Earlier this month, members of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU), Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, Pro-Life San Francisco, and Rehumanize International found the freezer using invoices that had been made public by public records requests by Indiana Right to Life.”
Christian Post: Pro-Life Groups Demand Answers After Exposing Freezer Full Of Aborted Babies Body Parts At University
“A group of pro-life activists have discovered human fetal remains in a freezer at the University of Washington, leading to calls for institutions involved in such research on babies to face accountability. On March 9, leaders of pro-life groups, including the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, Pro-Life San Francisco and Rehumanize International obtained access to what the organizations described as ‘the largest and most active fetal organ bank in the nation located at the University of Washington in Seattle’ in a statement. The groups obtained a photograph of a walk-in freezer at the university's Birth Defects Research Laboratory that contains aborted babies' body parts.”
LifeNews: WATCH: Pro-Abortion Handmaiden Attacks Pro-Life Advocate, Tries To Destroy Her Sign
“A new video shows a California pro-life leader being attacked by an abortion activist on Monday outside St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco. Kristin Turner, executive director of Pro-Life San Francisco, said an abortion activist grabbed her sign and threw it, shoved her and pushed a bullhorn into her face before private security intervened. The video shows a portion of the altercation.”
National Review: Progressive Pro-Life Activist Says Movement Needs To Prepare For Post-Roe Fight In Blue States
“Terrisa Bukovinac knows what it is to feel like a black sheep. As a secular person with progressive politics, it took her a long time to feel comfortable advocating on behalf of the pro-life movement. While activists on both sides might see these two identities as competing, Bukovinac founded the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) last year to show other progressives there is space — and even a growing need— for them in the pro-life movement… In 2016, she founded Pro-Life San Francisco, which she says has given her a taste of what it is like to advocate for the pro-life movement in a very progressive, leftist environment.”
2021
CNN: Abortion Rights Advocates Call For California To Become A True 'Reproductive Freedom State' If Roe V. Wade Is Overturned
“The group Pro-Life San Francisco, which calls itself ‘a multi-partisan, nonsectarian group of pro-life activists,’ wrote on Twitter: ‘Tell your state senator & assembly member to oppose the grotesque aims of this Council NOW!’”
Live Action: Activists Block Traffic In Protest Against Harvesting And Experimentation On Aborted Children
“Activists from Pro-Life San Francisco, Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, and Rehumanize International gathered on November 11 at the Alameda, California, offices of Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR) to protest that organization’s role in the aborted fetal experimentation taking place at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).”
Christian Post Español: UCSF Acusada De Experimentos 'Insensibles' Con Bebés Abortados Y Extracción De Genitales
“Las organizaciones de activistas pro-vida han acusado a la Universidad de California, San Francisco, de participar en experimentos 'insensibles' con fetos abortados y posiblemente permitir que los bebés que sobreviven a un aborto mueran. El grupo de defensa contra el aborto Live Action informó el sábado que el grupo Pro-Life San Francisco obtuvo dos documentos a través de la Ley de Registros Públicos de California relacionados con la forma en que UCSF está llevando a cabo investigaciones sobre fetos humanos viables. El grupo pro-vida acusó a la UCSF y a las instituciones asociadas de participar en 'crueles operaciones de recolección de abortos'."
Daily Wire: Inside UC San Francisco’s Massive Abortion Training Network
“On Tuesday, The Daily Wire reported that the University of California-San Francisco is harvesting genitalia from aborted babies. Pro-Life San Francisco recently obtained forty-two research logs showing that researchers had taken reproductive organs — including 'gonads' — from preborn children. The group also discovered that the university and its 'Women’s Options Centers' have no protocol for aiding babies who are born alive following botched abortions, indicating that survivors are in all probability left to die with no attempts at medical assistance. Under the financial auspices of Warren Buffett and the National Institutes of Health, UCSF’s involvement in the abortion industry extends far beyond the dissection of forty-two deceased children."
Daily Wire: UC San Francisco Harvests Preborn Baby ‘Genitalia,’ ‘Gonads’
“A pro-life group found that the University of California-San Francisco is harvesting baby ‘genitalia’ — including ‘gonads’ — for experiments. Under the California Public Records Act, Pro-Life San Francisco requested information on protocols for aiding babies who are born alive following attempted abortions, as well as ‘human fetal tissue procurement logs.’”
Live Action: UCSF’s Callous Abortion Harvesting Operations Exposed In Records Obtained By Pro-Life Group
“Pro-Life San Francisco has long been protesting UCSF and related institutions which operate under the university’s banner for their gruesome experiments involving fetal tissue and body parts, including recent experiments involving humanized mice, as well as the egregiously inhumane second-trimester abortions which supply those fetal parts… Out of 43 logs, 42 document the harvesting of genitalia and/or gonads.”
Scot Scoop: New Supreme Court Case Challenges Roe V. Wade
“A new Mississippi court case threatens to unravel some protections provided to women by Roe v. Wade, a landmark decision in the abortion rights debate. Kristin Turner, founder of Take Feminism Back and executive director in-training of Pro-Life San Francisco, sees this case as a chance for states to become more autonomous regarding their abortion restrictions… ‘We believe that the unborn deserve equal protection under the law. With that, we believe that equal protection must also come with support systems that make sure that we’re not just leaving these people out on the streets to figure it out for themselves, and we’re trying to come up with compassionate solutions,’ Turner said.”
Campus Reform: Watchdog Group Claims Stanford Broke Funding Laws With Experiment Involving Aborted Babies And Mice
“The White Coat Waste Project — a non-profit organization working to stop ‘wasteful,’ publicly funded animal testing — filed a complaint with the National Institute of Health alleging that Stanford University repeatedly violated federal law by failing to disclose how much taxpayer money was spent on experiments that entailed implanting fingers and femurs from aborted human babies into mice… Incoming Executive Director of Pro-Life San Francisco Kristin Turner told Campus Reform that ‘students will be horrified to learn that their tax dollars and tuition are being abused to implant fingers from aborted babies into animals for revolting experiments in secretive labs right on their campus…These animal experiments using aborted human fetal tissue are unethical and unnecessary and it’s extremely troubling that federal rules that rein them in are being quickly undone by the Biden Administration’…”
The College Fix: Pro-Life Activists Threaten To Sue UC San Francisco For Hiding Records On Fetal Harvesting Practices
“Pro-life activists are ‘coming closer’ to filing a lawsuit against the University of California-San Francisco for stonewalling their public records requests on the medical school’s alleged fetal harvesting and experimentation, one of them told The College Fix.”
KPIX 5 Bay Area: Anti-Abortion Demonstrators March In Downtown San Francisco
“The annual Walk for Life event coincides with the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion. One San Francisco woman said she’s a registered Democrat who is also pro-life. ‘I believe in the progressive values of equality, non-violence and non-discrimination. None of those are compatible with abortion,’ said Terrisa Bukovinac.”
2020
The Federalist: WATCH: Pro-Lifers Arrested On Public Sidewalk For Protesting Baby Organ Harvesting
“A group of protestors were arrested on a public sidewalk outside of University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) Zuckerberg Hospital in San Fransisco [sic] last month, and are now being charged with trespassing despite not stepping foot on hospital grounds until after their arrest. In video footage shared by the organization Pro-Life San Francisco, protestors are seen being arrested by local authorities and then walked into the hospital, where they began chants intended to draw attention to the hospital’s use of aborted fetuses for publicly funded experimental studies. Martin Cannon, senior counsel at the Thomas More Society, is representing one of the protestors, Terrisa Bukovinac, executive director of Pro-Life San Francisco. Cannon said he believes it was local sheriffs, not hospital staff or security, who walked Bukovinac and others into the hospital after arresting them for stepping past an arbitrary barricade outside.”
Live Action: Pro-Life Activists Arrested Outside Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
“Pro-life activists were arrested Tuesday outside of Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, where first and second-trimester abortions are committed and the bodies of aborted children are used for research at the University of California San Francisco. Terrisa Bukovinac, executive director of Pro-Life San Francisco, Lauren Handy of Red Rose Rescue, and other pro-lifers including Cheryl Conrad of the Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, were protesting outside of the hospital when they were arrested. The activists were charged with trespassing, but claim they were on public property.”
WJLA-TV: Dueling Protests Erupt Outside Of Supreme Court During Barrett Confirmation Hearing
“Protests for and against the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Amy Cooney Barrett have started outside of the Supreme Court Monday… The vote in the U.S. Senate is expected to happen around 7:30 p.m. If it goes as is expected, Barrett could be serving on the U.S. Supreme Court by Tuesday.”
San Francisco Chronicle: Hundreds Rally Against Trump At S.F. Women’s March: ‘We’re All In The Fight For Our Lives’
“Pro-Life San Francisco’s founder and director Terrisa Bukovinac, who describes herself as a Democrat, atheist, and feminist, said she has supported and joined in previous Women’s Marches. But she disagrees on the issue of abortion and Roe v. Wade, which she sees as a ‘grave human rights injustice.’ Bukovinac said the group is supporting the Supreme Court nominee. ‘Our position isn’t just agreeing with a candidate 100%, it’s about addressing direct threats to human life through violence,’ she said. ‘We do think Amy Coney Barrett is the most likely to bring us together and to get to the heart of the issues the American people really care about.’”
Cleveland.com: Protests Outside First Presidential Debate In Cleveland Remain Peaceful Despite Few Tense Moments
“Officers also confiscated the megaphone of Terrisa Bukovinac, founder and executive director of the anti-abortion Democratic group Pro-Life San Francisco. Bukovinac said she attended each of the debates held in the Democratic primary race and said the law enforcement presence in Cleveland Tuesday was ‘outrageous.’ She said the myriad of street closures, banned items and expanded special restriction zone amounted to police overreach.”
Live Action: Report: House Leadership Plans To Fight For Federal Taxpayer-Funded Abortions Next Year
“Shortly after abandoning plans to do away with the Hyde Amendment this year, the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives has announced its plans to challenge the amendment next year, allowing taxpayer funding of abortions… As some House members attempted to remove the Hyde Amendment in July, Pro-Life San Francisco’s Terrisa Bukovinac told Fox News, ‘The Hyde amendment has saved more than 2 million lives that are disproportionately black and brown. Suggesting that these people are better off dead is itself an expression of the white supremacist ideals that gave birth to the abortion industry in the first place!’”
Townhall: Media Ignore Democrats Calling Out Own Party For ‘Abortion Extremism’
“The Democratic Party is ignoring 21 million Democrats – not to mention a majority of Americans – by championing one particular issue: abortion. According to pro-life leaders, the party’s support of the ‘greatest human-rights abuse of our time’ alienates their own contituents. On August 18, Democrats for Life of America (DFLA) hosted the National Pro-Life Democratic Caucus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the Democratic National Convention (DNC)… Many of the event speakers were also sponsors, including pro-life groups Live Action, Rehumanize International, Pro-Life San Francisco, National Men for Life, Pro-Black Pro-Life, and Americans United for Life. DFLA board director Terrisa Bukovinac opened the event that called on Democratic leaders to ‘abandon their abortion extremism.’ While the ‘majority of Democrats want to see abortion regulated, restricted, and taxpayer funding free,’ she said, ‘our party has gone in the complete opposite direction.’”
Breitbart: Democrats Avoid Abortion, Pro-Life Leaders Sign ‘Blueprint For Post-Roe America’
“While Democrats made little mention of abortion during their convention last week, many pro-life leaders have signed onto a ‘blueprint’ that seeks to ‘lay out a roadmap of action items’ for a ‘post-Roe America’ as the Republican National Convention gets underway… Signatories of the blueprint include author Charlotte Pence, daughter of Vice President Mike Pence; Christina Bennett, co-chair of Pro-Life Voices for Trump; Kelsey Hazzard, president of Secular Pro-Life; Terrisa Bukovinac, founder of Pro-Life San Francisco and board member of Democrats for Life; and Cissie Graham Lynch, communications adviser for Samaritan’s Purse and The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association; Lila Rose, founder of Live Action; and Abby Johnson, founder of And Then There Were None.”
National Catholic Register: Democrats For Life Press On Despite Party’s Freeze-Out
“For the first time since 2000, the Democratic National Convention did not permit Democrats for Life of America (DFLA) to caucus as an official part of the convention and refused even to allow them to testify before the platform committee — the latest signs of the party’s overt hostility to the pro-life movement within their ranks… Terrisa Bukovinac, founder of Pro-Life San Francisco and a member of DFLA’s board of directors, spoke at the DFLA event and participated in protests outside the convention leading up to the pro-life caucus.”
NBC 4 Milwaukee: Biden Campaign, DNC Host Virtual Events On Eve Of Convention; Women For Trump Event Held In Pleasant Prairie
“On the eve of the Democratic National Convention, Joe Biden's campaign and the Democratic National Convention Committee hosted virtual events, while the Trump campaign hosted an event in Pleasant Prairie… There was still some in-person gatherings outside the Wisconsin Center in downtown Milwaukee, where the DNC is technically anchored… A small group of pro-life democrats traveled to Milwaukee and gathered at Ziedler Park to share their message. ‘It just made sense for us to come here, anyways, to show that this really matters to us,’ said Terrisa Bukovinac, the executive director of Pro-Life San Francisco.”
Fox 6 Milwaukee: 'All About Being Here:' Days Before DNC, Demonstrations Continue In Downtown Milwaukee
“People are flying into Milwaukee from across the country for the Democratic National Convention, not to participate in it, but to protest during it. On Saturday, Aug. 15, a small group with a mighty message was in downtown Milwaukee. ‘To address the abortion extremism that emanates from that institution,’ said Terrisa Bukovinac with Democrats for Life of America. ‘We are Democrats, and we want to see our party actually represent the majority of Democrats.’ While the format of the convention has changed -- now almost entirely virtual -- Bukovinac said the organization still wants its message heard. ‘We came here despite it being virtual because there is really no other way for this story to be told,’ Bukovinac said.”
The College Fix: UC San Francisco Is Hiding Public Records On Its Fetal Harvesting Practices, Pro-Life Group Claims
“The University of California-San Francisco plays an indispensable role in the abortion industry, particularly in late-term abortions and fetal experimentation, according to research by a local pro-life group. Pro-Life San Francisco debuted a video Wednesday explaining the taxpayer-funded medical school’s political efforts to mainstream abortion, even needlessly gruesome procedures, and train generations of practitioners. ‘Live! From the Abortion Frontlines’ serves as a kickoff of a campaign demanding transparency from UCSF. San Francisco is the ‘Atlanta of the civil war,’ Terrisa Bukovinac, founder and executive director of Pro-Life San Francisco, said after the video premiere on Facebook. ‘When we win here, the abortion industry falls everywhere.’
Live Action: Explosive Video Reveals How UCSF Dismembers Preborn Babies To Obtain Bodies For Research
“A new video released this week by Pro-Life San Francisco exposes the deep-rooted connections between the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the abortion industry, including a network for abortion training programs that produce some of the nation’s most dedicated and unapologetic abortionists. ‘UCSF: An American Horror Story’ shines a light on the relationship between the publicly-funded university and abortionists across the country, including their training and their inhumane methods of collecting aborted babies for research purposes.”
National Review: New Video Documents UCSF’s Entanglement With The Abortion Industry
“In a live online event this evening, Pro-Life San Francisco will debut a new video exposing entanglements between the publicly funded University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the abortion industry. Here are a few of the key facts included in the video: UCSF operates and funds more than 100 abortion-training programs in the U.S., including training for abortions performed after fetal viability. The university and its affiliated programs have trained nearly 3,000 OB-GYNs currently practicing in the U.S..”
LifeSite: After Citing Grandpa For Praying Outside, San Francisco Reverses, Allows Protests At Abortion Centers
“The City of San Francisco has reaffirmed the right of pro-life witnesses to continue offering resources to pregnant women outside abortion businesses during the COVID-19 crisis. According to the Life Legal Defense Foundation, which published the news on Tuesday, ‘Life Legal attorneys successfully negotiated with San Francisco city attorneys to protect the First Amendment rights of pro-lifers outside the city’s abortion clinics.’ Yesterday the Pro-Life San Francisco group celebrated the occasion on social media. ‘VICTORY! The right to conduct life-saving pro-life activities outside SF abortion clinics during the Shelter-in-Place order was reaffirmed after negotiations with city attorneys,’ the group wrote on Facebook.”
Fox News: Pro-Life Leader Considering Legal Action Against San Francisco After Crackdown On Sidewalk Counseling
“A leading pro-life activist is considering suing the city of San Francisco after police admonished her and her activists for attempting to counsel women outside an abortion clinic, Fox News has learned. The police infringed on their constitutional rights, Terrisa Bukovinac, of Pro-Life San Francisco, and her lawyers contend… Bukovinac took issue with a particular incident on April 2, in which police purportedly issued a verbal warning to her and a citation to 86-year-old activist Ron Konopaski. The citation was the first in San Francisco related to the pandemic and fueled Bukovinac's contention that the city discriminated against her group because of its pro-life views. Bukovinac says the city's attorney's office assured her she wouldn't face arrest or reprimand for future sidewalk counseling. But she and her attorneys allege that the city failed to offer a public or written assurance of this.”
SF Examiner: SF Police Issue First Citation For Violating Stay At Home Order To Abortion Protester
“The first person San Francisco police have cited for allegedly violating the public health order requiring residents to stay at home is an 86-year-old anti-abortion advocate. Ronald Konopaski was protesting outside the Planned Parenthood clinic at 1650 Valencia Street near Bernal Heights when police cited him for a misdemeanor Thursday. Sgt. Michael Andraychak, a police spokesperson, confirmed the arrest on Friday and said that officers had previously admonished Konopaski for allegedly violating the order.”
Personhood Alliance: More Pro-Lifers Arrested As Abortion Industry Capitalizes On COVID-19
“In California, long-time sidewalk advocate Ron Kanopaski was approached on Wednesday this week by police who instructed him to leave. Officers told him that the act of sidewalk counseling was a violation of the city of San Francisco’s stay-at-home order, even though he was abiding by the 6-feet social distancing rules. Police told Ron that if he was there the next day, they would arrest him. Not to be intimidated, Ron and fellow volunteers from Pro-Life San Francisco returned on Thursday to advocate for the mothers, fathers, and babies inside the facility. Ron was indeed cited and arrested by police, and the other volunteers received written warnings with threats to be arrested if they return.”
National Review: The Pro-Life Movement You’ve Never Heard Of
“Though supporters of legal abortion often claim that efforts to limit it stem from a theocratic desire to impose the religious views of some on the rest of the country, the existence of a growing number of secular pro-lifers undercuts this assertion. One of the largest groups representing them is Secular Pro-Life, founded in 2009 by Kelsey Hazzard… Today, Hazzard leads the group with the help of two fellow atheist Millennials, Monica Snyder and Terrisa Bukovinac, the latter of whom is a member of Democrats for Life and the founder of Pro-Life San Francisco, which aims to galvanize young people on the West Coast.”
Las Vegas Review-Journal: Democratic Presidential Debate Draws Supporters To Las Vegas Strip
“About a hundred people gathered Wednesday evening outside Paris Las Vegas, mostly in support of the Democratic candidates, before and during the presidential debate… Terrisa Bukovinac, founder and executive director of Pro-Life San Francisco, said she has been traveling to debates around the country to demand a pro-life Democratic candidate. She gathered in front of Paris with four others from Democrats For Life of America, chanting, ‘Abortion extremism ends now,’ with a lifelike model of a 22-week-old fetus. ‘We’re out here calling on our party to take a more moderate position on abortion that actually reflects the majority view of the constituents,’ Bukovinac said.”
WORLD Magazine: Unconventional Ally
“Terrisa Bukovinac, 38, is an atheist, vegan, Democrat, feminist, animal rights activist, and LGBT advocate. Yet, since 2017, Bukovinac has run Pro-Life San Francisco. It’s not uncommon to see her with a bullhorn, a homemade sign, or a fetal model in hand—or at pro-life gatherings with Catholics and Christians. ‘She has a pretty loud voice, and she uses it,’ one of her friends said.”
2019
Live Action: Judge Drops Six Counts Against Journalists For Planned Parenthood Videos
“San Francisco Superior Court Judge Christopher Hite ruled Friday that The State of CA v. David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt case will go to trial but with reduced charges. The case began in the spring of 2017 with the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) investigators Daleiden and Merritt each facing one claim of conspiracy to violate the law and 14 claims of recording confidential or private conversations.”
Washington Times: San Francisco Jury Finds For Planned Parenthood, Hits Pro-Life Activists With Over $1M In Damages
“A jury in San Francisco on Friday ordered that undercover pro-life activists must pay $1.2 million in damages for surreptitiously filming and publishing videos of Planned Parenthood employees discussing fetal tissue sales. The jury awarded $870,000 in punitive damages and over $400,000 in compensatory damages to the women’s healthcare giant on Friday afternoon, following a six-week trial in the U.S. District Court for Northern California stemming from a Planned Parenthood civil lawsuit… Pro-Life San Francisco, an advocacy group, said ‘Undercover journalism is now illegal in the U.S.’ in a Tweet.”
CBN News: Your Tax Dollars Used To Merge Mice With Aborted Human Baby Body Parts: 'Abhorrent On So Many Levels'
“Organs, bones and other body parts of aborted babies are being sold and transplanted into lab animals. This isn't a passage out of Frankenstein. It's research happening today and unsuspecting taxpayers are funding it. ‘It's abhorrent on so many levels,’ Anthony Bellotti tells CBN News. He's founder and president of White Coat Waste Project, a Washington-based group exposing experiments they consider a waste of life and tax money. Experiments like one in which the reproductive tracts from aborted 13-week-old twin girls were stripped out and implanted into mice. Last year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded 200 similar studies across 50 institutions, mostly universities, in 33 states.”
Daily Signal: San Francisco’s Blacklist Of Pro-Life States A ‘PR Tactic,’ Activists Say
“San Francisco’s blacklisting of 22 states with pro-life laws is only a ‘PR tactic’ that indicates growing desparation within the abortion industry, the head of an activist group based in the city says. ‘I don’t think [San Francisco’s government] has any real power with this boycott,’ Terrisa Bukovinac, executive director of Pro-Life San Francisco, told The Daily Signal in a phone interview.”
Washington Examiner: Republicans Demand Answers About Government Experiments With Animals And Fetal Tissue
“Republican lawmakers are demanding the Trump administration provide more information about government experiments that mix animals with fetal tissue from abortions. In a letter sent Wednesday, 69 lawmakers said they were ‘disappointed’ the research had been allowed to continue and highlighted a Washington Examiner op-ed from August that said the National Institutes of Health, the government's research branch, paid out $115 million for 200 different projects involving fetal tissue. The op-ed was written by Terrisa Bukovinac, founder and executive director of Pro-Life San Francisco, and by Alyssa Canobbio Hackbarth, a board member for an anti-animal experimentation group called the White Coat Waste Project.”
Live Action: Planned Parenthood Lawyer In Civil Trial: Leave ‘Salacious, Concerning Quotes’ Out Of Video Shown To Jury
“During the second day of Planned Parenthood’s civil trial against The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) in San Francisco on Friday, the CEO of Planned Parenthood California Central Coast retook the stand and defendant Sandra Merritt testified for the first time. Terrisa Bukovinac, Founder and Executive Director of Pro-Life San Francisco told Live Action News that Amy Bomse, an attorney for Planned Parenthood, asked Judge William Orrick III to limit specific pieces of CMP’s undercover recorded conversations that were shown to the jury.”
Live Action: Planned Parenthood Witness ‘Caught Off Guard’ In Undercover Investigators’ Civil Trial
“The civil trial for the lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood against The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) got underway Thursday in San Francisco. The trial, in which Planned Parenthood is seeking $16 million in their 15-count civil suit against CMP…”
OZY: Unapologetic: The Left-Wing Pro-Lifer
“Today, Bukovinac seems like the typical 30-something San Franciscan. She’s a Democrat, a feminist, a vegan and loves to go to karaoke with friends and drink at Dolores Park. She also happens to be the president and founder of Pro-Life San Francisco, an inclusive group of millennial pro-lifers fighting against the ‘abortion industry in its own metaphorical backyard.’”
Washington Examiner: Defund Grotesque Taxpayer-Funded Human Fetal Tissue Experiments On Lab Animals
“This summer, the Trump Administration made the commendable decision to terminate all internal National Institutes of Health (NIH) experimentation using aborted human fetal tissue. It also canceled a controversial $2 million contract between the NIH and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) which required two healthy human fetuses per month from elective abortions to be used for disturbing and unnecessary taxpayer-funded medical experimentation on animals.”
Live Action: California College Women Could Soon Be Aborting Babies In Their Dorms
“Last year, California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would mandate abortion pills be provided to students on public college campuses. But just months later, in December, the bill was reintroduced. Now, it’s being considered by the California Senate Health Committee, meaning public college campuses are, once again, in danger of being turned into first trimester abortion facilities.”
ABC 7 Bay Area: Former Planned Parenthood Director Creates Controversy With New Film
“A controversial film about abortion is causing a lot of conversation about this topic among moviegoers in the Bay Area. It's the story of Abby Johnson, the youngest Planned Parenthood clinic director who, after seeing an ultrasound of an abortion, resigned in 2009 and now opposes abortions.”
National Review: Twitter Locks Two Pro-Life Accounts, Citing ‘Abusive Behavior’
“Twitter suspended two pro-life accounts this week, telling the associated users that they had violated the platform’s rules against ‘abusive behavior.’ Pro-life San Francisco (@prolifesf) as well as the account of Eric Cochran (@Eric_Cochran), a supporter who retweeted the Pro-life San Francisco [tweet], have been suspended since February 13 for sharing already-public information about the criminal case against David Daleiden, the undercover journalist who filmed Planned Parenthood executives apparently haggling over the price of fetal body parts.”
2018
The College Fix: University Defends Using Aborted Baby Tissues In Experiments With Mice
“The University of California, San Francisco, is defending its use of aborted baby body parts in its experiments to ‘humanize mice,’ with the school claiming that the use of aborted fetal tissue to conduct scientific research is in keeping with the university’s mission.”
Catholic SF: Pro-Life Conference Highlights Diversity Of Movement
“A Sept. 8 pro-life conference at University of California at Berkeley took aim at uniting pro-life people from different backgrounds to build a broad base for activism in California.”
The Daily Cal: Anti-Abortion Organization Hosts ‘Let There Be Life’ Conference At UC Berkeley
“Fifteen speakers and activists gave presentations at a conference hosted by Pro-Life San Francisco on Saturday at UC Berkeley, speaking about unifying the anti-abortion movement and how to persuade others to join it.”
Town Hall: California Judge Rules That Names Of Planned Parenthood Workers Will Remain Sealed
“Last Monday, a California judge ruled that the names of 14 Planned Parenthood workers and others will remain sealed during the prosecution of two pro-life activists charged with secretly recording them. According to an AP report, the ruling was made by San Francisco Superior Court Judge Christopher Hite even though the names had already been published by LifeSite News over the weekend… The names of the 14 individuals incriminated in the undercover videos have reportedly been publicly available on the internet since 2017. But this week ProLife San Francisco was ordered by Twitter to remove their tweet listing the names, or have their account suspended.”
LifeSite: The 14 Names Of Body Parts’ Traffickers [Sic] Planned Parenthood Wants To Keep Secret In Daleiden Case
“A California judge will decide on Monday if the 14 ‘secret’ pro-abortion ‘Does’ named as accusers in 15 criminal charges brought against pro-life advocate David Daleiden in 2017 will be revealed. Judge Christopher C. Hite of the Superior Court of California in San Francisco heard arguments January 28 from Daleiden’s legal team for why Daleiden’s accusers should be named… ‘David & Sandra's attorneys should be allowed to give a robust defense for their clients, including unsealed, public cross-examination,’ commented Pro-Life San Francisco in a Feb. 1 tweet about the proceedings. The pro-life group has been tweeting out the names of the ‘Does’ since last month and linking to mainstream media outlets which have covered their involvement in the abortion industry.”
2017
Spartan Daily: Students Protest SB 320 Which Would Provide RU-486 At Public Colleges
“Equipped with a bullhorn, signs and 14 toilet seats, around a dozen members from Spartans for Life and the community chanted in front of Clark Hall Tuesday afternoon to garner support against State Senate Bill 320.”
SFGATE: Protests At Planned Parenthood Clinics Met With Opposition
"Demonstrators in the Bay Area joined abortion opponents outside Planned Parenthood facilities across the country Saturday for protests calling for an end to government funding for the organization."
NPR: Often Missing From The Current Health Care Debate: Women's Voices
"Women have a lot at stake in the fight over the future of health care. Not only do many depend on insurance coverage for maternity care and contraception, they are struck more often by autoimmune conditions, osteoporosis, breast cancer and depression."
The Daily Caller: Pro-Life Movement Expects Win After San Francisco Hearing On Undercover Videos
"The man responsible for the undercover videos of Planned Parenthood negotiations on the harvesting and selling of aborted baby parts indicated he is encouraged by what looks to likely be a pro-life win for his case in the San Francisco Superior Court."
Breitbart: Planned Parenthood Undercover Video Maker Pleads Not Guilty In Court
"The pro-life undercover journalist who stunned the nation with video recordings of Planned Parenthood officials allegedly selling the body parts of aborted babies for profit has entered a plea of not guilty to all charges against him in Superior Court in San Francisco."
KPIX 5 Bay Area: Pro-Life Activists Chalk Street Outside San Francisco City Leaders’ Homes
"Anti-abortion activists, armed with chalk, scribbled slogans of protest outside the home of a San Francisco Planning commissioner."
Catholic SF: City Board Approves Planned Parenthood 'Flagship’ Clinic
"Despite testimony from pro-life opponents, the San Francisco Planning Commission unanimously approved a Planned Parenthood Northern California proposal for a central ‘flagship’ clinic on Bush Street near Van Ness Avenue."
SF Examiner: SF Planning Commissioners’ Streets Scrawled With Anti-Abortion Messages After Vote To Expand Planned Parenthood
"The Planning Commission on Thursday voted 5-0, with commissioners Dennis Richards and Richard Hillis absent, to approve Planned Parenthood’s proposal to open its ‘flagship’ location in an old automotive shop at 1522 Bush St., near Van Ness Avenue."
KQED: Anti-Planned Parenthood Rally Overshadowed by Counterprotest in S.F.
“Protesters opposed to -- and in support of -- abortion clashed outside the Planned Parenthood clinic in San Francisco on Saturday, arguing over whether taxpayer money should go to a women’s health organization that provides abortion. ‘We think that the other side has some valid concerns about women's health,’ said Terrisa Bukovinac, president of Pro-Life Future of San Francisco. ‘However, we are absolutely not OK with federal funds going to an organization that profits from human demise.’”
Mission Local: Abortion Protesters And Supporters Face Off In SF’s Mission
"Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of Planned Parenthood Saturday at noon to oppose and support abortion rights. The two groups faced off across barricades at the clinic located at 1650 Valencia St."
SFGATE: Protests At Planned Parenthood Clinics Met With Opposition
"Demonstrators in the Bay Area joined abortion opponents outside Planned Parenthood facilities across the country Saturday for protests calling for an end to government funding for the organization."
The Huffington Post: Anti-Abortion Women’s Marchers Head Back To Washington
"Women against abortion are descending on Washington, D.C., for another march on Friday. For those among them who identify as feminists, it’s a chance to stake out their identity in the era of President Donald Trump."
Refinery29: A Pro-Life Democrat Explains What That Means, Exactly
"If any two political identifiers are at odds with one another, being ‘pro-life’ and a ‘Democrat’ seem to be. But a surprising number of people do occupy that implausible intersection."