The CEO and president of Concerned Women for American, Penny Nance, joins Mercedes Schlapp on this episode of America Uncanceled to address the local approaches to abortion in the aftermath of the overturning of Roe v. Wade at the federal level.
The issue is rising to the forefront of local politics just across the Potomac from Washington, D.C. in Alexandria, Virginia. The Alexandria city council recently addressed and approved a resolution allowing broader zoning for abortion clinics in the city.
“They changed the [zoning] laws so that you can now in the city of Alexandria place an abortion clinic in a commercial or mixed use space that would allow any kind of like a minute clinic, an urgent care. So, the kind of place you’d go to get a flu shot, now, can have an abortion clinic. So, moms who are coming back from a hard day at work and got their kids with them from, you know, a soccer practice going into the local grocery store, may have to walk past an abortion clinic and see these wounded young women coming out, so fragile, so hurting, coming out of these abortion clinics,” Nance stated.
Nance spoke at the city council meeting where the item was voted on and passed. She spoke up against the resolution in the interest of protecting women and unborn children from the atrocities of abortion and families from encountering the horror of abortion on a routine basis when simply frequenting grocery stores or shopping centers.
“We want to protect women; We want to help mothers, and we are no longer going to stand by as you destroy babies, and bringing more abortion clinics into a city that has two is certainly not the answer to the ills of the city. It’s simple for them. They can wash their hands of a woman in trouble and walk away, but why don’t we actually do something that helps them,” Nance queried.
Nance points to the rezoning of abortion clinics as a clear, improper prioritizing of municipal issues favoring the facilitating of the loaded political issue of abortion over solutions to the spike in violent crime afflicting the city.
While on the show, Nance additionally commented on the transgender movement and the reshaping of the media. She demands that Democrats come together with Republicans in common sense measures to protect women’s sports from the invasion of biological males. In the realm of the media, she foresees a rise of outlets like Newsmax over the older outlets of Fox News and CNN with the exit of Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon from the channels, respectively. Nance is looking forward to bringing the conservative message, herself, over seas as part of CPAC Hungary May 4-5.
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