A coalition of extremist anti-abortion groups (including video fraudster Lila Rose, left) has launched an effort to flood Congress with calls to defund Planned Parenthood.

They claim to have a million people ready to do this, and it may even be true.

Today, the Susan B. Anthony List, Family Research Council Action, 40 Days for Life, Students for Life of America, Concerned Women for America, Catholic Vote, lifenews.com, American Values and Catholic Advocate launched a grassroots campaign to flood the phones of Members of Congress, asking them to defund Planned Parenthood in the Continuing Resolution (CR). From Monday, March 21 to Friday, March 25, SBA List and other members of the Expose Planned Parenthood coalition will mobilize pro-life activists to call and visit district offices and attend town hall meetings while their representatives are in their home districts, asking them to defund Planned Parenthood in the next CR.

“The momentum behind defunding Planned Parenthood is building,” said SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser. “The message from the grassroots has been clear: the time to end taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood is right now. Whether in a short-term or long-term Continuing Resolution, defunding Planned Parenthood in this bill is a non-negotiable.”

Lila Rose, President of Live Action, filmed a grassroots call-to-action in the nation’s capital, announcing the Week of Action campaign. Available here, the video asks pro-life activists to join in the effort to defund Planned Parenthood of the $363M it receives in government funds each year by contacting their Members of Congress during the Week of Action.

Notice how these organizations work hard to present themselves as “women’s groups.” All the main spokespersons are female, and they give the groups conspicuously female names, in an effort to mask the true intent: rolling back 50 years worth of progress in reproductive health, and a woman’s right to decide the fate of her own body. It’s similar to the turnspeak of creationists, who cloak their atavistic legislation under the title “academic freedom.”

The goal is to present themselves as something they are not.