Largest Abortion Center in the U.S. Refused Permission to Open

By John-Henry Westen

AURORA, September 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A victory celebration will be underway tonight as citizens in Aurora celebrate the fact that they have at least delayed the opening of the largest abortion center in the United States. Today a federal judge stopped Planned Parenthood of Aurora from opening as scheduled tomorrow.

The massive Planned Parenthood facility applied for a building permit under false pretences and outraged the community. Led by the Pro-Life Action League, thousands have protested outside the yet-to-be opened facility for the last month attracting the attention of the international media.

"Today's court action demonstrates that truth still matters in America. This is exactly what we've been praying for these past 40 days, that Planned Parenthood would not open on September 18," said Eric Scheidler of the Pro-Life Action League, "We trust that the judge will allow Aurora to fully investigate how Planned Parenthood tried to come into town without disclosing who they were and their plans to perform abortions. Planned Parenthood had 13 appointments scheduled for Tuesday's opening. If God's answer spared 13 innocent lives, then we give the Lord the praise for the delay and the ultimate permanent closing of this abortion mill."

Planned Parenthood officials asked U.S. District Judge Charles Norgle to issue a court order allowing the clinic to open Tuesday as scheduled. But Aurora officials opposed that effort because of an ongoing investigation to determine whether the project's developer, Gemini Office Development LLC, lied on behalf of Planned Parenthood and deceived government officials by not disclosing the purpose of the clinic during the permitting process that it would be a Planned Parenthood facility that would offer abortions.

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http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/sep/07091008.html

How fitting! The largest abortion center in the United States has just suffered partial birth abortion.

good one and worth repeating. . .

. . .meantime, these Planned Parenthood 'pro-choicers' no doubt, will be supporting Hillary's compulsive health care-not plan.

Hope they find a way to keep this facility down. . .there are no laughs here; but lying 'Planned Parenthood' imagined no doubt, they would have the last one. . .

My guess is that Planned Parenthood went into Federal Court to get an injunction against the city’s hold up in opening the clinic; probably claiming irreparable harm if they couldn’t open on 19 September.

The Federal interest is that the “right” to an abortion flows down from the Federal to state and local levels from the US Supreme Court 1973 Roe vs Wade decision (reinforced over the years by yet other Supreme Court decisions). Those federal decisions trumped and continue to trump state and local attempts to place restrictions on the practice. If you, as an abortion proponent, ever feel the right is being illegally constrained, you can return to the Federal Court system to ask that they enforce the right. But it is not a risk free choice. Abortion proponents fear that, if Roe vs Wade is ever overturned (along with the decisions that depend on it), control over this right would then revert to the 50 states and a patchwork of permissions and restrictions would replace the uniform national right to an abortion as it exists now.

The problem for Planned Parenthood in this instance is that they and their building contractor appear to have lied to city and county officials in order to get permission to build the facility. Had they been truthful from the beginning, the issue before the Federal Court might be about access to an abortion. But, having apparently made false statements about the building’s purpose and ultimate ownership all during the permitting and building process, the issue now is the deception, not abortions. There may even be a criminal conspiracy involved as well.

Anyway, that’s my take on the matter.

I would hope judges see it that way, but then I’m not confident they all will.

No reason to be confident, of course. For sure it is not warranted if they are Libs. (And most likely they are. . .) Perhaps, these people considered just that. . .who the Judges would be; making a final determiation, if required.

Libs never let a law. . .a rule or a Moral Code; stand in their way.

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