Posted on 10/28/2005 10:39:33 PM PDT by Coleus
SPRINGFIELD, MO.
When Springfield Healthcare Center mysteriously closed its doors, Rosina San Paolo praised the Lord.
"I danced. I thanked the Blessed Mother. I thanked Jesus," said San Paola, 82, who has spent the past 22 years protesting outside southwest Missouri's only abortion clinic.
But another woman left a starkly different message on the clinic's answering machine after hearing the news that, as of Oct. 19, the facility had been shuttered.
"As a former patient, I just wanted to express my gratitude to everyone who works there," said the woman, who did not leave her name. "You are all godsends for what you do there. . . . I am extremely disgusted by the Springfield community."
Such polarized perspectives on the clinic and the city that harbored it highlight the continued tensions in the region, the state and the nation more than 32 years after the Roe vs. Wade ruling by the Supreme Court in favor of legalized abortion. And that's despite the continued decline in the number of abortions, in Missouri and the country.
As both sides of the abortion issue point out, the dissent goes beyond the surgical procedure. It includes the dispute over differences between RU-486, a pill that causes abortions, and Plan B, the so-called "morning-after" pill that prevents pregnancy.
A companion debate, nationally and in Missouri, focuses on whether pharmacists should be required to stock or dispense Plan B, and if it should be available without a prescription.
There's also a growing argument over the influence of sex education in reproductive choices, and whether groups like Planned Parenthood, which support abortion rights, should be allowed to provide sex information to public schools, even if they ask for it.
The political stakes were underscored this week when Gov. Matt Blunt, who lives near the clinic,
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More than likely a repeat customer.
Ridiculously euphemistic name for an abortion clinic alert! "Healthcare center" indeed.
40,000,000+ since June 1973 is more than enough. Illegal aliens stream into this county like water, but unborn potential citizens are left in the ashes. It gives the prayer "ashes to ashes, dust to dust" a bad name.
whether groups like Planned Parenthood, which support abortion rights, should be allowed to provide sex information to public schools
Not in my backyard. Never.
"You are all godsends for what you do there..."
Notice the euphemism for "what they do".
God never sends people to kill innocents.
They have decimated the African American Race to the point that they are start lag behind Hispanic and Asian populations in CA.
Good grief.
What god? Moloch?
"protesting hag"???????
What a classy way to honor those who fought the good fight.
I don't know... It was Moloch, though, to whom Canaanites sacrificed infant children, wasn't it?
I think so. I'm going by memory, and my googling offered no help.
You're an ass.
Maybe I am an ass, or maybe I am not: I happen to believe that other people effing is none of mine [or that 82 years old hag's, or yours, for that matter] effing business. Besides, speaking figuratively, why should one thrust oneself between other people's genitalia and play a prophylactics? It is an undignified role to play.
If she is so supportive of the abortion clinic then why doesn't she leave her name? Could it be that her life now is not what would be viewed as "dreamery"? I suspect so.
I think it was "Baal"
When I get to heaven, what will I not hear the soul of an aborted infant (you know, the ones who are sucked out of the womb and fed through the industrial-strength garbage disposal) say?
"You are all godsends for what you do there..."
Of course this "client" is so proud of her patronage that she declines to leave her name.
Huge metal man with bull head, fire between the legs baby placed in red hot arms. You nailed it
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