Fox News contributor says a mobile reproductive health clinic outside the DNC “shows a profound distrust and hatred for humanity”

Raymond Arroyo: “There's something particularly insidious and evil about this whole thing.”

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From the August 18th, 2024, edition of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle

LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Raymond, they frame this as women's healthcare, but how is this people-powered when, I guess the agenda is to abort the people and snip the men?

RAYMOND ARROYO (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): Well, it shows a profound distrust and hatred for humanity, Laura. Where's the faith in what your party can do for people if your first freebie at your convention is a vasectomy and an abortion — and these are medical abortions by the way. They are giving women pills. So in theory, they could take their pill, go watch the speeches in the DNC's hall while the abortion is taking place. There's something particularly insidious and evil about this whole thing. And Laura, here's the kicker; as I read into this, okay, the mobile health unit pulls up, there's a group called Wiener's Circle that's partnering with Planned Parenthood. They are actually giving away hotdogs every time you have a free abortion or a vasectomy. So, I knew human life was being devalued, I didn't realize it was just worth a hotdog.

The New York Times reported on the mobile health clinic:

A mobile health center run by Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, which serves much of Missouri and part of southern Illinois, plans to park itself near the convention and offer those services early next week to anybody who makes an appointment, delegate or not. (There is so much interest in the vasectomy appointments, I’m told, there is already a waiting list.)

It’s a way of showcasing how reproductive health care providers have had to get creative when operating in or near states like Missouri, which borders Illinois and has a near-total abortion ban.

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Reproductive rights activists said they expect Democrats to highlight stories of women who have been denied medical care in states with strict abortion bans. Some of those women have been featured in presidential campaign ads this year. The activists also expect that Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, will talk about IVF and other fertility treatments as part of the debate over reproductive rights. Mr. Walz has said he and his wife experienced fertility issues when starting their family.

And whatever happens onstage, Dr. Colleen McNicholas, the chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, will be seeing patients inside the mobile unit (the nearby brick-and-mortar locations of Planned Parenthood Illinois will be, too).