Two
of the most powerful companies in the world are co-sponsoring a protest against
a pro-life women’s health care clinic that provides free medical services and
counseling to pregnant women — just not abortions.
Facebook
and Google are co-sponsoring Netroots Nation, an annual gathering of
progressive activists and political leaders that is targeting a pro-life
organization, Human Coalition, and the health care clinics they operate under
the name Cura, which provide free medical services and counseling for women
with unplanned pregnancies. The protest’s organizers claim two primary
motivations for going after Human Coalition’s clinics: they’re pro-life, and
they’re successful. (RELATED: ‘Betrayal’ — Left-Wingers
Furious With Democrats’ Support For Pro-Life Candidates)
Netroots’
official agenda has the
protest scheduled for Saturday at noon, immediately following one event
featuring Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and shortly before another event
featuring former Vice President Al Gore. Google and Facebook are listed as “premier sponsors” of Netroots,
alongside far-left organizations like Planned Parenthood.
Saturday’s
protest pits activists backed by two of the top four most valuable brands in the world against a small but
effective organization that describes itself as both pro-women and pro-child.
Pro-abortion
group Reproaction will lead Saturday’s protest against Human Coalition.
Reproaction claims Human
Coalition’s health center is a “fake clinic” because — unlike, say, Planned
Parenthood — they don’t perform abortions. The protest is titled, “Get Fake
Clinics Out Of Atlanta!”
“We
are taking direct action on CURA Women’s Care Clinic to send a message to Human
Coalition and other crisis pregnancy centers that they will no longer get a
pass for misleading women who are trying to find abortion services,” claim the
protest organizers. The organizers appear particularly disturbed by Human
Coalition’s use of prayer: their description of Saturday’s protest includes two
direct references to the advocacy group’s promotion of prayers for women
considering abortions.
But
it’s the left-wing activists who are actively deceiving women in pursuit of
political goals, argued Human Coalition’s communications director Lauren
Enriquez.
“This
is the industry that also calls prenatal human beings ‘products of
conception,'” said Enriquez. “We aren’t surprised that those who would prefer
that pregnant women in crisis not have access to anything but abortion have
employed deceptive rhetoric to try to delude the public about the services
offered by our women’s care clinics.”
Human
Coalition appears to have earned a target on its back after the organization
placed two op-eds in the New York Times. The protest organizers cite the two
op-eds — placed in a paper with an overwhelmingly pro-abortion editorial board
— as a sign that Human Coalition has been successful, and therefore must be
destroyed.
“Human
Coalition staff have caught the attention of The New York Times twice this
year, publishing editorials spreading the falsehood that abortion is
dehumanizing to women, and that opposition to abortion is part of feminism,”
Reproaction states, adding: “(nope, pro-life feminism is impossible).”
In
one of those op-eds, Enriquez explained that
pro-life women “reject the version of ‘feminism’ that infers that we cannot be
equal to men unless we snuff out what is unique about us as women: our ability
to protect, nourish and nurture new life inside of our bodies.”
Saturday’s
protest of an organization devoted to helping women and unborn children
indicates that Google and Facebook are becoming more open in their support of
left-wing political causes.
Both
Google and Facebook have long been accused of harboring left-wing biases. (RELATED: Snopes, Which Is
Fact-Checking For Facebook, Employs Leftists Almost Exclusively)
Google’s
board of directors donated six times as much money to
Democrats as Republicans, the Media Research Center found. The company has been
accused of burying negative search results for Democratic figures like Hillary
Clinton, although it denied that charge.
Google
recently found itself at the center of a public relations firestorm after firing an employee,
James Damare, for writing a scientifically-based memo against the company’s
“ideological echo chamber” and culture of political correctness run amok. New
York Times columnist David Brooks called on Google CEO Sundar Pichai
to resign in a column
on Friday, arguing that Pichai “joined the mob” against Damore.
Facebook’s
liberal biases are well documented. (RELATED: Leaked Emails Show
Facebook Exec Shared Research With Clinton Campaign)
Former
Facebook employees admitted to Gizmodo
last year that the social network routinely suppressed conservative news from
its “trending topics” section, while purposefully elevating other
topics — like Black Lives Matter — to make them national topics. Facebook CEO
Mark Zuckerberg has previously scolded employees
for not being supportive enough of Black Lives Matter.
