Denver Newsroom, Aug 14, 2020 / 04:14 pm (CNA).- Governor Pete Ricketts of Nebraska is set to sign a ban on dilation and evacuation abortions into law at a ceremony on Saturday, after the bill passed the state legislature on Thursday.
The Nebraska Catholic Conference, one of the main organizations supporting the legislation, announced that the signing would take place outside on the steps of the state capitol at 11am Aug. 15. Attendees are asked to wear a mask.
Lauren Garcia, communication specialist for the NCC, told CNA that they are happy that Ricketts is signing the bill into law right away, and in a public setting, because only five days remain in the current legislative session.
wikipedia
Abortion giant Planned Parenthood has said it will distance itself from its founder, Margaret Sanger, after acknowledging her eugenicist and racist actions.
Writing in The New York Times, the abortion giant’s president and CEO, Alexis McGill Johnson, said the organisation “must reckon” with Sanger’s activities.
The move has been dismissed as an empty gesture by pro-lifers.
Margaret Sanger
Sanger was a leading advocate of the eugenics movement and promoted sterilisation of people she deemed to have undesirable traits or economic circumstances.
Johnson admitted that Sanger had called upon the Ku Klux Klan for support, as well as giving her backing to the first human trials of the birth control pill in Puerto Rico – which did not inform the women of the potential dangerous side effects.
A sign hangs above a Planned Parenthood clinic on May 18, 2018, in Chicago, Illinois. | Scott Olson/Getty Images
Pro-life activists have responded after Planned Parenthood President Alexis McGill Johnson denounced the organization’s founder, Margaret Sanger, and accused the head of the abortion giant of attempting to undertake a
“fake reckoning” regarding Sanger’s ties to the eugenics movement.
Johnson, who heads the nation’s largest abortion provider, wrote a New York Times op-ed Saturday titled:
“I’m the Head of Planned Parenthood. We’re Done Making Excuses for Our Founder.”
Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger | (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Johnson, who took over as Planned Parenthood president in 2019, noted that questions about Margaret Sanger’s views on race have loomed large in recent years. She stressed that
Kay, 34, realised her period was late a month into Britain’s lockdown. The coronavirus death count was spiralling across the country. Covid-19 was putting the NHS under unprecedented strain and Boris Johnson had given the British people what he described as “a very simple instruction” in an address to the nation from Downing Street: “You must stay at home.”
A worrying, unsettling time, and Kay, a mother of a six-year-old girl, needed to get hold of a pregnancy test kit. She went online and, two days later, took delivery of the test, learning of a positive result via two pink lines. It was the news she had dreaded.
A sign hangs above a Planned Parenthood clinic on May 18, 2018, in Chicago, Illinois. | Scott Olson/Getty Images
Pro-life activists have responded after Planned Parenthood President Alexis McGill Johnson denounced the organizationâs founder, Margaret Sanger, and accused the head of the abortion giant of attempting to undertake a âfake reckoningâ regarding Sanger s ties to the eugenics movement.Â
Johnson, who heads the nationâs largest abortion provider, wrote a New York Times op-ed Saturday titled: âIâm the Head of Planned Parenthood. Weâre Done Making Excuses for Our Founder.âÂ
Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger | (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Johnson, who took over as Planned Parenthood president in 2019, noted that questions about Margaret Sangerâs views on race have loomed large in recent years. She stressed that âWe must reckon with Margaret Sangerâs association with white supremacist groups and eugenics.â