“Women’s March on Asheville” & “Bans Off Our Bodies”

Press Statement by Meredith Eugene Hunt

For the occasion of the “Women’s March on Asheville” and “Bans Off Our Bodies” rallies in Asheville, North Carolina today, May 14, 2022:

“Pro-abortion reaction to Alito’s draft ruling is mass social hysteria.  Nothing they say, nor how loud they say it changes the reality of abortion hurting a mother and killing a baby.  Absolute “bodily autonomy” is violent and brutal when it means removing a pre-natal child from their natural environment, where they are perfectly viable. A child who only wants to be loved.

“The tragic part of Alito’s draft is it doesn’t recognize the humanity and personhood of pre-natal human beings.  It merely undoes the legal travesty that was Roe v. Wade, something the court should have done 30 years ago with the PP v. Casey decision. Pro-abortion people are declaring contempt for a Supreme Court that no longer affirms destroying a life.  But Justice Alito’s draft is persuasive.  It throws the “issue” of abortion back to the states because abortion never was a constitutional right.

“If the majority of the Court holds to Alito’s draft, the angry, absurd rhetoric to intimidate judges and lawmakers will continue in state legislatures.  The effort to drown and demonize voices who speak for women and children will intensify.  Our nation protected the enslavement of human beings for 200 years. The South relied upon slavery. It took a negation of a Supreme Court decision and war between states to end slavery

“Until we all recognize the personhood of pre-natal human beings, while also accommodating the unique nature of women, the division and conflict will only grow.”   

Hunt was the Director of Life Advocates in Asheville for 33 years.   

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The World & the Devil's Hatred

Obviously, this photo is not for everyone to see, but it represents a sample of the kind of opposition we face just almost every Saturday at Planned Parenthood.  This person is standing on PP property, imposing himself between Edie and women going inside for abortion.  He dances around to try to distract and confuse Edie who is gently speaking on our amplifier.  We also have to be wary of police who have written tickets to some of the new people who aren’t as careful as we are with their use of sound amplification.  This photo was made on 1/11/20.

Letter: Abortion Protestors Should Go Home

The Mountain Xpress published a letter to the editor on June 5, 2019 that they headlined. “Abortion Protestors Should Go Home,”  referring to us who go to Planned Parenthood on Saturday mornings. The letter writer, Mark Wonnacott made several claims. 1.We pro-lifers believe that abortion is murder. 2.We mostly only go out on warm, sunny days and go home when it starts drizzling. 3.We are very careful to stay within the confines of the law.  4.We obstruct the bus stop.   He bases his claims on observations made from his vehicle at the traffic stop light.  His conclusion is that we are either “moral cowards of the highest order”, or that we “use an imagined sense of moral superiority, an artfully constructed victim narrative and a position of incredibly social power to bully women… or both.”  I guess the victim narrative would be about pre-natal children.  Anyway, he recommends that we should “Stop it. Go home. Pay your taxes. Hug your children. Trust women.”

The letter generated over 104 comments so far and 3.3k reads, many of the comments from me.  At some point the original letter writer joined the discussion.  He’s trying to make the argument that unless I protest 24 hours a day, I don’t allow pregnant women the same choices I allow myself.  It takes some contortions to reach that conclusion, and besides, his whole argument is an ad hominem that says nothing about abortion and the life of a human being in the womb.

Find the letter and comments HERE.  I think you will find it all interesting.

Aborting Father Threatens to Kill Pro-life Grandma

This happened at the Asheville Planned Parenthood a few weeks ago.  Someone called the police later in the morning, probably on us.  The police showed up in numbers, detained some of us, did background checks, and then gave us a talk about "good behavior."  I had originally posted this video on our YouTube channel, but then YT took the video down, citing their privacy policy.  I have this man's name and other identifying information, and in the future if he does anything else like this to us, I will press charges for communicating a threat.

"Random Act of Kindness of Some Basic Life Essentials"

From the November newsletter:

Last Friday during the long morning, I took a “bathroom break”.  A short block away from Planned Parenthood is some vacant, overgrown property that affords adequate privacy.  It’s the sort of place where homeless people sometimes pass by.  Hanging on a gate was a nice, green, nylon bag, obviously heavy with goods.  Pinned to the top of the bag was a note on white paper.  The note read, “Random act of kindness and useful necessities.  Take or share, if needed.”  My first thought was to take it—I’m an opportunist and our family economics often require us to take advantage of small gains, but then I realized how stupid this was.  I didn’t need what was in the bag and someone else might.  I walked away happy that other people were doing

what we prolifers are also attempting in an out-of-the-way and inconvenient place—offering random acts of kindness and useful necessities to try to save the lives of children.  The difference is when I returned later with a camera to take a photo of the bag, it was gone, but few people welcome the random acts we offer.

Thanks so much for your support. It is needed.  We can’t give up.

UPDATE: That was a week ago.  Last weekend I found another green bag in a new location, and this time I was able to get pictures.  I had mis-remembered the words of the note.  The headline of the blog post contains the right words.  This time I looked inside the bag to see if I might learn who is doing this project.  There was no identifying information. The bag contained a stocking hat, gloves, a scarf, some soap, wipes, a hand warmer, a few snacks, a couple other things, and a bottle of water.  I left the bag as I found it.

The last photo here is not of Planned Parenthood, but a little place called Biscuit Head along Biltmore Avenue that we see every time we leave PP.  There's always a long line.  It seems so strange in this out-of-the-way place.  People standing in line in a parking lot.  I spoke with a couple from Missouri that was eating biscuits from a box off the back of their car. They had driven all the way from western Kentucky to visit Asheville for the weekend. They said it was faster ordering food here by take out.  The wait was an hour, they said.  I told them where they could go for a nice nearby hike to some cliffs along the Blue Ridge Parkway.  

In the other side of this building is an office for TranzMission.  And we wonder why things seem to be changing so fast. They have money.  There's an organization. 

Become a Patron

[Note: I just moved this article from www.chaoticterrinpress.blogspot.com this morning.  The original posting was on 7/10/17.]

This below is what I posted on Patreon yesterday.  The idea is to invite a friendly audience of vehicular passersby to support us and my writing.

    You may have seen me “protesting” in front of Planned Parenthood’s abortion site on McDowell Street in Asheville, North Carolina. Maybe you gave a friendly honk and a thumbs up. (Thanks!)  Or maybe you flipped us the bird and shouted a degrading insult or obscenity. Or maybe you saw an advertisement somewhere for Chaotic Terrain Press. Whoever you are and however you got here, Welcome!

    My friends call me Mick and everyone else knows me as Meredith Eugene Hunt.

    The word “protest” doesn’t really capture what we are trying to do out there. Our signs that say “Let Your Baby Live, We Will Help” express the essence of our intention. Because we are in a public place, there is an element of protest, but that’s not at the heart of what we do. Our first audience is people who come for abortion. 

In nearly 30 years of anti-abortion work I’ve gone through a number of stages, including a decade of informally debating the subject of abortion on university campuses all over the southeast U.S. and elsewhere. At some point I got tired of debate. I won’t go into the why of it right now, except to say that debate has its limits because people erect barriers to reason. Everyone does. Logic breaks down into determined fallacy or else it’s built on weak, immutable presuppositions. Then there’s simply raw emotion. This is part of why I started writing stories in year 2000.

    I’ve published a three-part novel titled Universal Man (Graceful Runner, The Chinook Assembly and Then, a Soldier) and also I’ve published 26 short stories in a collection titled When Earth Whispers & Other Mostly Speculative Tales. I’ve written on my Chaotic Terrain Press blog what these stories and the novel are about. Abortion is a factor in several of them. The connection may seem to be obscure, but only when viewed on the surface. Look deeper. Think of the implications of, for example, physics running backward for your husband or wife and then read “Ships Passing in the Night: Romance and Marriage Between Lovers from Anti-synchronous Worlds” that I wrote for the Mad Scientist Journal. 

    You can read all 26 stories totally for free on my blog. Patreon is a way you can support my writing work. Or you can buy the books. And I need reviews: Good, bad, and even ugly. If the second and third option, expect a rebuttal, maybe. Or another story. Or silence. (Or a revision.) If you appreciate one of the short stories, try a long story—the novel. You can buy an electronic version cheap to read on your computer. I’ve taken almost all the photographs in the novel and those that accompany the short stories. The e-versions have the pictures in color.

    We endure a lot of verbal abuse on the sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood. It’s a fish bowl out there. We have a narrow sidewalk, dangerous, noisy traffic, and hostility on all sides. But, we have passersby who are friends, too. Once in a while someone will stop and give us a little cash money, and when that happened yesterday (7/7/2017), I thought maybe others would support us if it were easier and convenient. Hence, here we are on Patreon. The stories help you get to know me and us better. They are what I have to say. I hope they’re fun. They might lead you to think in a new way. They might even, perhaps, lead you to join us to a degree you haven’t before now.

    I’ve put together a plan for monthly Patreon patrons to receive various free books, and I’ll also post some special things here, like working chapters of a novel in progress. Or sketches from unfinished short stories. Or my frog fishing story from junior high. (About shipping books internationally, I can only do this when Amazon permits.)

    Patreon suggests accompanying this text with a video introduction. I have posted such a two minute video HERE, but it’s not what you might expect. Like everyone else, I want to think about what’s beautiful or just entertaining. Maybe after 30 years of thinking about death, blood, and baby body parts, I’m more escapist than most people. Check out my other videos on my YouTube channel, UniversalDirt, especially the monarch butterfly ones. There’s a connection to abortion there, too. But I’ll leave you to work it out for yourself.

Happy traveling!*

    (P.S. If you feel like arguing with me, first read the two pro-life apologetics books by Francis J. Beckwith, then perhaps we’ll talk. If you’re thinking of attacking me, then read a couple stories first. Try “Attack of the Gravid Amazons.” It’s thought provoking. Remember, anyone can read the short stories for free at the Chaotic Terrain Press blog.)

*A reference to my ascending "reward" tiers Friendly Passerby, Kindred Spirit, Fellow Traveler, Trail Runner, Through Hiker, Wilderness Trekker, and Himalayan Climber.
  

To become a patron, go HERE.  Thanks!

Planned Parenthood Protest, 2-11-17

It took a while for us to figure out why
 Planned Parenthood was closed,
but their parking lot was full.
Their people had gone
 to a rally in Raleigh.

Video: "Women's March on Asheville"

This is a video of the so-called "Women's March on Asheville" from our location at Spruce and College, and from our point of view.  Part One.

GRACEFUL RUNNER Available TODAY!

The link to the Amazon page is HERE.

A Novel for Roe v. Wade

Part one of my contemplative thriller, Universal Man will be released in a second edition for the upcoming anniversary of the abominable Roe v. Wade. It will be available on Amazon.com on Sunday, January 22.  Graceful Runner features a preface and a handful of original black & white location photographs. The story takes place in the Pacific Northwest. Part two, The Chinook Assembly will be available on March 1, 2017 for Lent, and part three, Then a Soldier will be available for next Easter.


To read the heart of the back cover of Graceful Runner, go to the page link on the right. The first, earlier edition of the book may be found HERE at the Barnes & Noble Nook store in an electronic version.

Planned Parenthood Spending Your Tax Dollars on Flavored Condoms?

Here we have a UPS driver delivering cartons from Trustex to Planned Parenthood in Asheville.  I looked the name up and found that Trustex, according to one online merchant, is the "world's leading flavored condom brand. Available in seven individual flavors, or try a variety pack to sample them all!" Photo taken 12/23/16.

Woman Steals Pro-life Sign in Asheville

This woman (left) has stolen a pro-life sign that was along the sidewalk in front of the Asheville Planned Parenthood on Saturday, May 21. The abortion escort apparently persuaded her to not keep it because the woman tossed it into the driveway. When she left by the back entrance, she stopped and tried to steal a sign from one of the people there. We have a photo of her face, which I will post.

VIDEO: Pro-Abortion Woman Flings Wooden-Framed "Let Your Baby Live! We Will Help" sign into the Highway

After she tosses the sign, I tell her I'm calling the police.  
"That's fine," she says, twice.

A Bernie Supporter.  He loves Planned Parenthood.

The sign hasn't quite hit the roadway yet.  
Lots of cars zoom by every so often.

This particular sign has been attacked THREE times in the past few months.
It survives.

                                                                                                             Today while driving into the Asheville Planned Parenthood abortion site parking lot, a woman stopped to berate JoAnne for “forcing her beliefs on other people.” I guess by “forcing” she meant JoAnne shouldn’t express her belief that abortion is wrong, and she shouldn’t offer help so women don’t feel compelled to kill their children. I guess that the woman expressing her belief that we shouldn’t express our beliefs isn’t forcing her beliefs on us. Anyway, when that woman left the Planned Parenthood parking lot, and while JoAnne was talking with a young man who had brought his girlfriend for abortion, that same woman stopped, grabbed our “Let Your Baby Live. We Will Help!” sign and flung it into the middle of the busy highway. You can see it all on this video. So, she momentarily stole our sign, attempted to damage it, created a dangerous road hazard, and last but not least, littered. (There are fines for that.) I’ve seen her before serving as a Planned Parenthood abortion escort. I will be reporting this to the police. She’s a Bernie Sanders supporter, as you can see by her bumper stickers.

If she hadn’t seen me running toward her, she would have put the sign in her car and driven away.  I have the original video in High Definition, 30 frames/second.

Protesting Planned Parenthood's "Condom Coulture" Fashion Fundraising Show

A few of us protested Planned Parenthood in Asheville last Saturday night. We were under the Vance Monument at a busy intersection while PP held a condom fashion show across town. Several people stopped by to express their support including a Ukrainian couple who had been attending a huge marriage building seminar at a hotel.  Of course we had the usual honks of support and screams of hatred.  The two girls in the photo above approached us to sweetly ask permission to take our photograph.  The girl on the left posed next to our sign that said, "Abortion Hurts Women."  As they walked away afterwards, the girl in the red turned to say, "Rot in Hell!"

You Should Know Chiesa, Food for the Soul

Chiesa's owners have pledged to match up to $100 any gift made to the abortion giant Planned Parenthood from their diners during the month of October. Somehow this reminds me of snarfing delicious salad and sipping wine while merrily discussing the dismemberment of boys and girls on a secret video.

Visit Chiesa's website HERE.

Read an article about Chiesa and its owners, Robert and Melissa Willingham, HERE.

Contact me if you would like to protest there sometime soon.

What's Next?

We have hopes and plans.

The best way to stay up-to-date is to join the Life Advocates Facebook group.  HERE.

Also, we have ongoing conversations, updated information about the CME Planned Parenthood-Stem Express videos, and lots of photographs and cool video from the protest at our Facebook Event Page.  HERE.

If you are not on Facebook, great. Maybe you could follow this blog, and if I get more people, I'll be diligent to post essential information. 

Lastly, for now. Please consider joining in the national 40 Days for Life campaign of prayer, fasting, and witness, which in Asheville will take place at the local Planned Parenthood abortion site, 68 McDowell ST, 28801. The dates are September 23 - November 1, 2015. The campaign will begin with a kick-off rally, time and place to be announced later. For more information and to register at the official site, go HERE.

A Planned-Parenthood-Loving Counter Protest

The link to the Asheville Citizen-Times story.

#ProtestPP Press Release

LIFE ADVOCATES - PO Box 19205, Asheville, NC 28815
www.lifeadvocates.blogspot.com   828-575-7300
Contact: Michael Austin, 212-254-6698, michael@autinpr.com

For Immediate Release:

August 22 Protest at the Asheville Planned Parenthood Part of Nationwide #ProtestPP

Abuse of public trust, baby body-part trafficking and cover-up leads to a widespread demand for government de-funding of Planned Parenthood.   

Asheville, North Carolina, August 12, 2015 — In response to recent admissions by Planned Parenthood officials about its practice of harvesting and selling aborted baby parts, Life Advocates and concerned citizens of Asheville are protesting at the Planned Parenthood facility at 68 McDowell St, Asheville, NC on August 22 from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. This effort is part of a National Day of Protest taking place at hundreds of Planned Parenthood offices and abortion facilities to raise awareness about their trafficking of baby parts.(See: www.ProtestPP.com.)

 

The ProtestPP.com coalition is sponsored by 50 state and national pro-life groups. The event is scheduled for more than 200 locations, including Asheville, Raleigh, Charlotte, Chapel Hill, and Winston-Salem in North Carolina, as well as in Columbia, South Carolina, and Knoxville, Tennessee. Several states have initiated investigations of Planned Parenthood, and recent legislation has been introduced in Congress to defund the abortion giant. Planned Parenthood currently receives over $500 million in taxpayer funding annually.

“The recent videos showing Planned Parenthood’s callous disregard for human lives have awakened us to the importance and urgency of defunding it," said Meredith Hunt, director of Life Advocates and long-time Asheville anti-abortion activist. "There is a lot of quiet prolife support in our region, and we’re hoping for people to come out now and say they don’t want their tax money going to this basically criminal, murderous organization anymore.”

Undercover videos (www.youtube.com/user/centerformedprogress) released by the Center for Medical Progress reveal that Planned Parenthood abortion clinics, with the sanction of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, are involved in the harvesting of body parts of preborn children who are aborted in their facilities, and in profiting from the sale, contrary to federal law. The videos show high-level Planned Parenthood executives haggling over the prices of fetal specimens. The videos also raise ethical questions about the exploitation of preborn children for financial gain and the risks to women’s health if abortion procedures are altered solely to procure more profitable baby parts.

"Time and time again, Planned Parenthood lies to us,” Matt Bradley, spokesman for the #ProtestPP event in Asheville said. “Now they’re caught in a scandal of selling aborted baby body parts. Every abortion produces two victims: the mother and the baby. The mother can suffer from depression, post traumatic stress, thoughts of suicide, and future premature deliveries. We need to protect all prenatal children and mothers from abortion. Everyone needs to write their representatives in Congress to demand that they defund Planned Parenthood.”

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Planned Parenthood's Cannibalism of Aborted Baby Body Parts & "HONK for Life"

We stood with these signs outside Asheville Planned Parenthood today, an abortion day.  More on this subject in a minute.

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Planned Parenthood is selling baby body parts, and it shouldn’t even be an issue.  I mean, they are getting away with murder, and they have the government’s blessing and protection, plus literally Billions of dollars in public funding over the years, so why should it bother anyone that some good might come from the dead babies?  It’s not even at or below the level of grave robbers, those who once stole the cadavers of the recently deceased so that physicians and surgeons could study human anatomy, and eventually save lives.  In the case of abortion the mothers gave permission for the abortionist to kill their property (meaning, offspring), and if the body parts didn’t go to research etc, they’d just be incinerated.  What a waste.

Maybe what bothers us is Planned Parenthood’s callous indifference to innocent human lives, to the horrible, bloody nature of dismemberment, and to the chopping up and selling of parts. But should this surprise or shock us? I’d say not. When Planned Parenthood speaks on the record in public, their tactic is to evade, avoid, and euphonize, to talk about “a needed service,” “choice,” “birth control,” "tissue," and so on, or to simply change the subject by attacking pro-lifers.  We shouldn’t be shocked at all with their cavalier, cold-hearted or even jaunty macabre shop-talk when they think the public is not privy.

Why should this not bother us?  Because Planned Parenthood has been murdering prenatal children for decades.  We’ve known, but we’ve decided to look the other way. All it takes to know what really is happening is either by looking at a picture of an aborted baby, or at least using a little imagination, but that makes us uncomfortable. The killing of the child then is the real issue.  If we become callous about mass murder, the fresh awareness of Planned Parenthood’s cannibalization of small children may bother us for a little while, and then it won’t anymore. Problem solved. Back to normal. Nothing changes.

However, the recent revelation of the clear depravity of Planned Parenthood gives us an opportunity to do what should have been done a long time ago.  Cut off their taxpayer funding!  It doesn’t matter how much dubious “good” Planned Parenthood does with one hand, because they are killing children with the other. Cut them off. Let them squawk. 

Now, about "HONK for Life." This is a new campaign we just began today. Two of us, Michael and I stood along the busy McDowell Street in front of Planned Parenthood with these new signs.  Michael quit counting at 75, but I estimated 200 people honked during the 2.5 hours we were there.  We will release more information about the campaign in a week or so, but I will say, this is just a beginning. 

Some of What I Noticed Today at the Asheville Planned Parenthood Killing Center

Their tags say, "Health Center Greeter."

Bird of the week. (Click on any image to enlarge.)

She cooperated by posing for the camera.

JoAnn said this truck reminded her of Africa, where she lived for many years.

What this is all about: babies.  (Through the window, across the road.)

A greeter greeting.

Another greeter greeting. (Odd that they both took pictures at the same time, or, I have no idea why.)