Will also participate in opening of George W. Bush Library
Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. President Obama has canceled plans to deliver a keynote address at Planned Parenthoods Annual Fundraising Dinner Thursday night in order
to spend time with the families of victims from the fertilizer plant explosion in West Texas. White House spokesman Jay Carney said the Presidents schedule change was made in order to allow him to spend more time with those injured and the loved ones of those lost in the deadly explosion.
Mr. Obama is scheduled to speak Thursday afternoon at a memorial service for victims and family of the victims of the fertilizer-plant explosion in West part of a long roller-coaster of a 24-hour travel schedule set for Wednesday evening through Thursday night.
The president and first lady Michelle were set to leave Washington for Dallas Wednesday afternoon in order to attend an evening fundraiser benefiting the Democratic National Committee.
The following morning he will participate in the
opening of the George W. Bush Library at Southern Methodist University and then visit Waco to speak at the memorial. That night he
was originally slated to come back to Washington to keynote the Planned Parenthood fundraiser.
Pro-life groups said Mr. Obamas decision to switch his Planned Parenthood remarks to Friday morning instead of canceling the event entirely demonstrates his close ties to the abortion-rights group.
President Obama swapping a Planned Parenthood fundraising gala Thursday night for an address on Friday shows that while he is certainly willing to avoid a photo of him at an abortion party while the nation mourns he still refuses to distance himself from the nations No. 1 abortion provider and an industry that preys on women and defenseless children as exposed through the Gosnell trial and other atrocities" said Lila Rose who heads the anti-abortion group Live Action.
Pro-life advocates had been harshly critical of Mr. Obamas decision to appear at the fundraiser particularly with the ongoing high-profile trial in Philadelphia of an abortion provider.
