Ron K., who has maintained a peaceful pro-life presence outside a San Francisco Planned Parenthood for over a decade, was arrested and issued a criminal citation on Thursday, April 2 for praying outside the facility. Officers said Ron violated the city’s “shelter-in-place” ordinance and threatened to take him to jail if he did not leave immediately. Ron remained a safe distance away from women and staff entering the abortion mill at all times.
The arresting officer told pro-life activists on the scene that their “constitutional right to protest…has to take a back seat to the health order.” Ron was the only pro-lifer who received a citation, which requires him to appear in court on criminal charges later this month.
Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood continues to operate its clinics, including the one in San Francisco, at full capacity. They insist that surgical and chemical abortions, sex-change hormone therapy, abortion-inducing birth control, “morning-after” abortion pills, and controversial Gardasil vaccines are “essential services.” Because they refuse to shut down during the coronavirus crisis, Planned Parenthood and other abortionists are now competing with hospitals and doctors for scarce personal protective equipment needed to treat patients who desperately need life-saving medical care.
You may remember that Ron K. was violently assaulted outside the same San Francisco abortion mill last year. Life Legal Senior Staff Counsel Allison Aranda, a former prosecutor, urged the police department to take action and even provided officers with the identity and location of the assailant. SFPD did not take any meaningful steps to apprehend the perpetrator.
Life Legal is prepared to file a civil lawsuit, but we have not been able to find the attacker, who has since gone underground. We are working with a private investigator to try to track him down and bring him to justice.
SFPD refused to exercise their authority to protect an elderly man—and now they are threatening him with jail time because he is doing what he has done every “abortion day” for more than ten years—praying for women and offering them life-saving alternatives to abortion.
Life Legal maintains that as long Planned Parenthood is allowed to stay open, women have the right to information about all of their options—not just the one that lines Planned Parenthood’s bloody pockets.Pro-lifers who help direct women to pregnancy centers, abortion reversal, post-abortion counseling, and other life-affirming healthcare are providing essential services and we will continue to defend their right to do so.
The above comes from an April 2 email from the Life Legal Defense Foundation.
Bad pro-lifer! Just steal from a convenience store next time and the police won’t bother you.
Ron got assaulted and beat up in front of Planned Parenthood, and the police did nothing.
Good to see them out in force, with three officers, making up for this problem.
Yay !! Let’s stomp the good guy since we are unable to do anything about crime in SF,
especially, guys who break into cars, rob pedestrians, and other assaults.
So, here we are, making San Francisco safe from an 80 year old man!
Good to see you protecting us, officers! Kudos! And you too, Mayor!
And you too, Board of Supervisors!
Like so many who spin an item to create an emotional response, I find it disconcerting that within the article the reference is made that the Planned Parenthood facility are competing with hospitals and doctors for scarce resources. Let’s bear in mind that Planned Parenthood is not a hospital, but does provide medical services beyond the abortion related ones mentioned in the article.
Planned Parenthood does a third of all abortions in this country, over 330,000 a year and other services amount to a very small percentage of their services. So let’s get the facts straight.
Even Auschwitz had an infirmary.
He should be staying at home. Period. You can pray at home. Self righteous. Good for him for praying, but do it at home. Good for the police for enforcing the stay at home order.
Oh Henry! My oh my oh my. “Self-righteous”??!!?? Whatever do you mean? Have you a window into this man’s soul that no one else in the whole world has? I thought he was out there to give women the option of not killing their babies. I guess I was mistaken, and thank you for the blisteringly bright insight you have brought to the matter.
We are in the middle of serious chastisement, yet still no repentance from Planned Parenthood. Well, Henry, the Bible says, “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.” Planned Parenthood must get those little body parts to sell and make a profit to keep the worship of Moloch going.
I would think twice before, Henry, before I called anyone else self righteous. It just might be the last words you speak. None of us are promised tomorrow.
I want to make clear that that is NOT a threat by me or anyone else. All I am saying is that none of even know if we will be alive tomorrow.
Correction: “none of us even know”.
Jesus also says that when you pray, do so in secret, so that no one sees you.
There is a great word in German that describes your reply, YFC: “unanwenbar.” It means “inapplicable” or “besides the point.” I legal circles it has the connotation of “irrelevant.” Jesus is giving broad guidelines that do not proscribe prayer in places like churches, cemeteries, retreat centers, or even abortion centers. In context, Jesus’ words are directed at the self-righteous religiosity problematic in that day. If you think this man shouldn’t be there, one might suppose you name Henry as a trusty guide into this man’s soul.
Why did Paul encourage Christians to pray everywhere, but Jesus said to pray in secret? Timothy 1 2:8 “I desire therefore that the men pray everywhere, lifting up hold hands, without wrath and doubting”.
Matthew 6:5–8 has nothing to do with whether we should pray in public or not. This passage is related to the reason we are praying. When Jesus contrasted praying publicly versus praying privately, He showed how we should not be selfish but selfless. We should be praying selflessly and glorifying God for His many blessings—while laying up treasures in heaven.
So please stop distorting the truth for your own misguided agenda.
Kudos to the “courageous” SFPD for dealing with the public menace,
a highly dangerous octogenarian. So glad tax-payer dollars are expended
so wisely in this period of endangered public safety.
San Francisco’s District Attorney is Chesa Boudin, spawn of Kathy Boudin (paroled) and David Gilbert (up for parole 2054), Communist Weather Underground terrorists/murderers/cop killers. Raised by Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, Communist WU terrorists/murderers/cop killers.