YouTube embedding / Left: Christine Hammett video / Michele Herzog, Pro-Life Action Ministries (PLAM), at Life Chain Orlando, in this raw video from Oct. 9, 2018. Right: Voice of America video / Massive protests on Friday like this one in New York City after Roe v. Wade was reversed by the US Supreme Court.
By HENRY FREDERICK / Headline Surfer
ORLANDO, Fla. -- For nearly three years, a raw video on YouTube promoting Michele Herzog's pro-life values generated all of 14 clicks to date. But with Friday's reversal of Roe V. Wade by the US Supreme Court, she wasn't celebrating.
As reported in the Tampa Bay Times, Herzog was busy loading picket signs into her SUV to take to the sidewalk outside an Orlando Planned Parenthood.
"They depicted pictures of an unborn fetus before and after an abortion," The Times reported. ". A typical Friday."
I'm in an interracial marriage. Kristy is white and I'm half Chinese. Will the Republicans be nullifying our marriage, next?
— Richard Thripp, PhD (@Thripp2020) June 24, 2022
Friday has been anything but typical not only here in Central Florida but across the United States.
Few national issues are more polarizing than abortion: Gun rights, the death penalty, and illegal immigration at America's southern border perhaps.
But today, at least, the abortion issue outranked these others by a mile.
Richard Thripp, a former Volusia County Democratic Party chairman, and clearly pro-choice, sees the conservative bend on the Nation's High Court not stopping with Roe.
"I'm in an interracial marriage," the Daytona Beach liberal tweeted. "Kristy is white and. I'm half Chinese. Will the Republicans be nullifying our marriage next?