On Feb. 4, anti-abortion groups are organizing a national day of protests targeting pharmacies that have announced plans to offer abortion pills, including Walgreens, CVS and Rite Aid.
for brick-and-mortar pharmacies to become eligible to sell the abortion pill mifepristone for the first time. PAAU is planning protests at pharmacies across the country, including in Boston, New York City, Washington D.C., Chicago, L.A. and San Francisco.
The Feb. 4 action is co-sponsored by two other anti-abortion groups: Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust and Live Action, which on Jan. 26a Walgreens’ shareholder meeting in Newport Coast, Calif. Two anti-abortion extremists broke into the building where the meeting was to take place and hid out in a closet for nine hours waiting to ambush and disrupt the meeting.
“These extremists are infamous for stalking physicians, invading clinics, and bullying patients and clinic staff,” said duVergne Gaines, director of. “Groups like PAAU, the Survivors and Live Action are doing their best to grab headlines and terrorize pharmacies out of providing critical access to the abortion pill, but they must be stopped.”
According to Gaines, members of PAAU have connections to violent, anti-abortion extremists. PAAU director of activism Lauren Handy was trained by one of the leading extremists in the anti-abortion movement, Jeff White, founder and leader of Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust.
Groups like PAAU, the Survivors and Live Action are doing their best to grab headlines and terrorize pharmacies out of providing critical access to the abortion pill, but they must be stopped.Handy claims to be a feminist, but she has repeatedly threatened, harassed and intimidated other women seeking or providing reproductive healthcare services. Handy has faced criminal charges in several states, including Michigan, D.C.
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