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Pro-lifers Pressure Builder Out of Racist Planned Parenthood Deal

PORTLAND, Oregon -- Activists have successfully pressured a Portland building firm, Walsh Construction, to pull out of a deal to build a Planned Parenthood abortion facility and regional headquarters in a predominantly black north Portland neighborhood. The protestors, led by Bill Diss of the Precious Children of Portland, organized a massive campaign including calls, letters, e-mails and picketing. Bob Walsh, co-owner of Walsh Construction, told Portland's Oregonian newspaper that this kind of pressure forced him out.
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PORTLAND -- A construction company set to help build a Planned Parenthood clinic in northeast Portland has dropped the project, citing pressure from anti-abortion activists. The developer, Beech Street Partners, has assembled a team of builders and will act as its own general contractor. A team member, Walsh Construction Co. owner Bob Walsh, said he was approached two years ago to build a medical clinic. But when Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette signed on as the anchor tenant, Walsh said, he called other builders who had dealt with aggressive anti-abortion activists. He was told that protesters had gone as far as staking out contractors' homes.

Posted by Editor at July 2, 2008 08:43 AM