May 1, 2019

‘I Find It Kinky To Abort Fetuses’, Jokes Planned Parenthood Supporter On Campus

On campus several weeks ago, April 9th, at the University of Texas-San Antonio, Planned Parenthood supporters walked through and mocked a Cemetery of the Innocents display put up by the Students for Life group as part of the Spring 2019 Planned Parenthood Truth tour. The protesters yelled about how they loved abortion and some even pointed at the crosses and said, “Look, there’s mine right there.” One student said that she loves to have sex and to abort fetuses and that’s “my number one kink.”

Of course, that was not all that happened.

University of Texas-San Antonio:

Sarah Zarr, Texas Regional Coordinator for Students for Life, reported:

“At University of Texas-San Antonio, there was a protest formed against us as soon as we set up…The students who protested us are in a campus group called Students United for Planned Parenthood. Some of the members approached us, but would not dialogue. They just wanted to shout their points at us. One girl told me I was using my “white privilege” and “wasn’t allowed to be out there talking about this issue when it affects black women.” A few members did speak with us, but when they couldn’t think of a response to what we said, would get mad and walk off. Then a bunch of them came with signs and stood in front of our display shouting that we didn’t have the facts. Later they came and stood in the middle of our memorial in the grass with their signs and a girl ran out into the grass yelling “I’ve had an abortion!” They continued on by mocking our memorial that represented the 911 lives lost due to the abortions Planned Parenthood commits every day and the 911 women’s and families lives that were impacted by those abortions. Chanting things like, “Hey, stop, what’s that sound, all the fetuses are in the ground.”

Melanie Salazar is the student leader of the school’s pro-life group. Following this event, Melanie said:

“As the president of Students For Life at UTSA, one of our main goals I strive for is to create dialogue with the student body to bring awareness and to create conversation about the reality of human life and of abortion. I truly believe that we are not going to change legislation until we change hearts and minds, and we will do this by simply having conversations. I am thankful for the freedom of speech to have events like this one at our campus. I believe that empowered women empower women to choose life for their preborn child and our pro-life club wants to create a culture of life that removes fear from women in unplanned pregnancies and instead leads them to resources and opportunities. Students For Life at UTSA aims to give respect and dignity to every human life at all stages and in all circumstances. To persons who are post-abortive, we will love them without judgement and help provide healing. We ARE the Pro-Life Generation and if our event got protested like this, then we must be doing something right and be on the side of truth.”

This group also has faced repeated instances of violence, including flyers being torn down.

Despite these heartbreaking phrases they were shouting, the pro-life group was able to continue to dialogue with more reasonable passersby and share the truth about Planned Parenthood with love and boldness.

University of Texas-Austin

“A guy walked up to our table and told my student Mica: “this is bullshit” (looking at our display and info on the table). He then picked up whole stacks of our topics cards, these “women’s right to know” booklets we had, and our unsafe book that was just for display and ran off Mica chased after him and said hey that’s our property, you can’t take all of those please give them back. He kept running till he got to a gutter and threw it all in the gutter.

“We then went and filed a police report and the police said they couldn’t do anything because we were handing out the info he didn’t technically steal, even though we said not all of it was to take. He finally let us file a police report, but said charges can’t be made until they investigate.”

“What’s interesting is that we have heard that our sources are biased or “B.S.” before, but that argument holds no water. Anyone can visit PlannedParenthoodTruth.org and view all of our sources, which are almost all public health department reports or news stories from mainstream news sources. Some of what he threw in the gutter were those factual and non-bias sources.” Mica, an officer of the students for life group at UT, said “students just think they can get away with anything here and it stops student organizations like ours being able to table and start conversations”.

The Planned Parenthood Truth tour has been hitting high school and college campuses across the country. You can learn more at PlannedParenthoodTruth.org.