Concrete realities

National | UPDATE: Austin, Texas, Planned Parenthood boycott crumbles after a concrete supplier reverses course; pro-life executive resigns after his company poured the foundation for a 9,000-square-foot abortion business | Lynn Vincent

When Mark Hamilton on Jan. 28 checked in at his office at Rainbow Materials, Inc., the company's credit manager greeted him with a flurry of questions: "What's going on at 201 East Ben White?" the manager asked, mildly perturbed. "There's no job set up in the system. What's going on?"

Mr. Hamilton, then Rainbow's vice president for sales, knew the address. It was the site of the "Choice Project," a 25,000-square-foot Planned Parenthood health complex and abortion business under construction near low-income neighborhoods in Austin, Texas. The project had for months been the target of a successful construction boycott organized by Texas Contractors and Suppliers for Life (TCSL), a tiny band of grassroots pro-life activists.

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