Pro-life advocates flooded Twitter today with a campaign calling on public officials in Alabama to shut down an abortion clinic operating illegally.
Today, abortion clinic owner Diane Derzis faces a judge about the accusation she is illegally operating the New Woman All Women abortion clinic in Birmingham, shut down by the state of Alabama since 2012, but now operating illegally.
#abortion facility owner Diane Derzis & abortionist Bruce Norman at today’s #AL hearing. #ShutDerzisDown pic.twitter.com/NG2fUZqdaR
— AUL (@AUL) August 5, 2013
Derzis is well-known to pro-life advocates, she runs the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi and she is still operating a clinic in Birmingham doing abortions despite a previous order by the state to close.
Today, Derzis goes to trial in Jefferson County to respond to a lawsuit about her illegal operation of the New Woman All Women clinic in Birmingham and pro-lifers are taking to Twitter to pressure Alabama officials to respond using the hashtag #ShutDerzisDown.
The campaign has the backing of leading pro-life advocates.
“Neither this facility nor any other one in the nation that performs abortions should consider itself above the law,” said Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life. “Abortion supporters can’t have it both ways. If you want a procedure to be legal, then carrying it out has to be done according to the law. I know Diane Derzis, who runs this facility, and have met with her, and I appeal to her not only to abide by the law, but to get out of the abortion industry altogether.”
PLEASE RT: Botched Abortions Injure Two Women in Birmingham, Alabama https://t.co/tJckB3XtZk #ShutDerzisDown
— Steven Ertelt (@StevenErtelt) August 5, 2013
“No one wants #AL to be responsible for enabling the next #Gosnell.” -Dana Cody of @LifeLegal @ALPublicHealth #ShutDerzisDown
— Susan B Anthony List (@SBAList) August 5, 2013
Calling on @ALPublicHealth & @LutherStrange to #ShutDerzisDown. Her #abortion facility is operating unlicensed! https://t.co/CIlFWbltv0
— AUL (@AUL) August 5, 2013
Where is the Governor of this state? Stop ignoring what needs to be done, stop Derzis. #ShutDerzisDown woman and babies deserve better
— Jo Q (@JoQabq) August 5, 2013
Keep us safe, ADPH! Alabama women deserve better than Derzis’ back-alley abortions. @pbrianhale @ALPublicHealth #ShutDerzisDown
— AUL (@AUL) August 5, 2013
Help #ShutDerzisDown! Join the TWEETFEST #happeningNOW https://t.co/AJQkwloc7l
— terry gensemer (@tgensemer) August 5, 2013
Alabama women don’t deserve THIS! https://t.co/odY30zKD3x #ShutDerzisDown #ShutDerzisDown
— Catherine Siena (@1catherinesiena) August 5, 2013
.@LiveAction_News Twitter campaign 2coincide w owner’s court date 4operating illegal AL abortion mill #ShutDerzisDown https://t.co/Cv1oq9Oh3U
— Jill Stanek (@JillStanek) July 31, 2013
“No one wants Alabama to be responsible for enabling the next #Gosnell.” -Dana Cody of @LifeLegal // @ALPublicHealth #Aug5th #ShutDerzisDown
— Myke Rosenthal-Engli (@SeelosinFuessen) August 5, 2013
#ShutDerzisDown Worse than Gosnell
— Saman tha Kureczka (@samKdesign) August 5, 2013
Real War on Woman – filthy abortion clinics! #ShutDerzisDown
— Laura Marklin (@LauraMarklin) August 5, 2013
2nd Jan 2012 victim @ #Derzis #AL #abortion facility. no stretcher access: patient wheeled down steps https://t.co/Z74PXaah50 #ShutDerzisDown
— AbortionWiki (@abortionwiki) August 5, 2013
RT@alvedaking: It’s time for the community to get protection from abortionists like Diane Derzis. #ShutDerzisDown”
— Natalie Brumfield (@NatBrumfield) August 5, 2013
“No one would choose to do this for a job, it’s a calling.” Derzis’09 // NO ONE is called to break the law & endanger lives. #ShutDerzisDown
— Sarah Howell (@bonemanifesto) August 5, 2013