(Live Action)
The Margaret Sanger Center Planned Parenthood on Bleecker Street in Manhattan is infamous to pro-lifers because of the danger it poses to women. This Planned Parenthood has a history of injuring women and does not have a safe exit in place for women who need to be transported to a hospital following botched abortions. The facility’s elevator can’t properly fit gurneys, and injured women have had to be removed by wheelchair and transferred to gurneys before being loaded into waiting ambulances. In a medical emergency, every second matters.
Two pro-life activists, Bevelyn Beatty and Edmee Chavannes, were outside of the abortion business on May 30th as they have been numerous times in the past, reaching out to women who are entering to obtain abortions. They always arrive early, to be the first ones at the doors before the Planned Parenthood volunteers arrive, so they can secure their spot on the public sidewalk. On this particular day, according to Beatty and Chavannes, barricades had been obtained by Planned Parenthood and placed on either side of the entry door to the building in an attempt to disrupt the women’s pro-life activism. However, Beatty and Chavannes refused to let this stop their outreach.