Super Bowl champ skips White House celebration over Obama's comments to Planned Parenthood

Matt Birk, who played center for the Baltimore Ravens, declined to attend a White House celebration of their Super Bowl championship last season. He said he didn't support the President's praise of Planned Parenthood, an organization that has ended the lives of millions of unborn children.

“I have great respect for the office of the presidency but about five or six weeks ago, our president made a comment in a speech and he said, ‘God bless Planned Parenthood,’” Birk, a former Minnesota Viking, told a local Minnesota sports blog. “I’m very confused by [Obama's] statement,” he explained. “For God to bless a place where they’re ending 330,000 lives a year? I just chose not to attend.”

Birk said he’s a pro-life Roman Catholic. “Planned Parenthood performs about 330,000 abortions a year,” he said. “I couldn’t endorse that in any way.”

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