It would be too far outside the purposes of this forum to engage this discussion, so I will simply state that numerous court and investigative actions show that all of their activities are not legal. A search of the words 'Planned Parenthood illegally' would turn up a representative sample from sources that are mainstream through extreme (as one would expect online).Russell wrote:every service they provide is still *LEGAL* makes my libertarian-leaning self happy
To wrap back around to the OP, I think we've covered that the sign almost assuredly is intended to be valid and that by the letter of the law it is not valid, but Russell brings up a point that has not yet been discussed.
Planned Parenthood is a very controversial figurehead for abortion as they are the greatest single provider of them in the US. Their largest facility is in Houston, TX. As such, whatever one's political opinions about the services they provide, one must take into account the politics associated with them when deciding what one will do when dealing with them. If you were made inside a PP, as opposed to inside a grocery store, how might things unravel differently? I'd suspect that the police responding would be more sensitive to your having a firearm there (similar to how some are sensitive to seeing them in churches or at schools). Would you be more likely to be dubbed an extremist? Would the police, who notoriously know nothing about CHL laws, be more likely to take the word of the secretary when she explains that the sign on the door is valid? Would you be more likely to take a ride for being made in a PP than being made at a grocery store? My guess would be yes, that all sorts of factors would combine such that if you were made in a PP, no one would want to take the chance of giving you the time to explain yourself before they got you and your gun out of there in the safest and most expedient way possible, which would most likely be the back of a police car.
