Planned Parenthood protests in New York draw massive crowds in support of women’s rights
Across the country on Saturday, Planned Parenthood health centers saw coordinated protests staged by abortion opponents.
But in New York City, the counter-protesters got up earlier, beating the anti-abortion faction at their own game.
By 9 a.m., an hour before the “Protest PP” rally was scheduled to begin, substantial crowds of Planned Parenthood advocates had assembled directly across from the Margaret Sanger Center in downtown Manhattan, staking out the prime real estate usually occupied by anti-abortion factions.
They dwarfed the handful of the Protest PP demonstrators, who, by 11 a.m., numbered perhaps two dozen. Read more. (2/11/17, 6:13 PM)




