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Posted on 09/26/2007 3:25:23 PM PDT by wagglebee
Aurora, IL (LifeNews.com) -- Pro-life advocates are using another new tactic in their efforts to stop a new Planned Parenthood abortion center from opening in this northern Illinois city. An attorney has discovered that the abortion business may have failed to obtain a special use permit and hold a public hearing on how it would use the new facility.
Aurora-based lawyer Vincent Tessitore has talked with city officials about his analysis of city zoning codes.
Tessitore found that one section appears to mandate a special permit for health facilities that aren't operated by non-profit groups.
While Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area is a non-profit organization, the group applied for and obtained the permits for constructing the new abortion business under the name Gemini Office Development, a for-profit corporation.
As a result, notification of the new abortion business should have been sent to all business owners within 250 feet of the new center, a public hearing should have been held and the city council should have signed off on the special use document.
According to a Beacon News report, if 20 percent of more of the surrounding business owners objected to the special use permit, a supermajority of nine of the 12 members of the council would be needed to approve it.
Ed Sieben, Aurora's director of land use and zoning, told the newspaper that Tessitore reminded him of the section of code and that he is looking into it.
"He brought up that section of the zoning code," Sieben said, "and I said it was of interest, and we would review it with the law department."
Steve Trombley, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area, told The Beacon News that he was unfamiliar with this section of city law.
"We have no idea what he's talking about," Trombley said.
But Alderman Rick Lawrence told the newspaper that the discovery is important and sheds light on why Planned Parenthood came to the city under the name Gemini Office Development because a public hearing on Planned Parenthood's name would have resulted in public opposition.
Meanwhile, Kane County State's Attorney John Barsanti is finishing his review of two investigations into the approval process and is expected to release his findings on Friday.
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"We're innocent I tell ya. INNOCENT!
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhht!
This abortuary may will be totally defeated yet through the power of prayer.
(You must have accidentally turned off auto-correct)
Amen!
Ignorance of law is not a defense. Try telling a judge you didn't see that 55mph sign when you got caught doing 70. :)
Every doctor, nurse, and corporate officer of businesses committing murder for hire should be spending time in the slammer.
Has Planned Parenthood put up any “For Sale” signs yet?
We’re in agreement on this issue. You may have missed my sarcastic “Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhht.” at the bottom.
I must, respectfully, disagree. Like it or not, abortion is sufficiently widely regarded as legal that punishing people for those abortions performed int he past would effectively constitute ex-post-facto legislation.
No matter how fundamental the right to life may be, allowing the government to enforce ex-post-facto legislation would mean that nobody was safe, since practically everybody has done something which could be retroactively made a criminal offense.
Nah....I didn’t miss it. I was just adding to it. :)
Good LaineyDee. You take care.
There is an /absolute/ moral code, though you may wish to ignore it, it will not be ignored. “Following orders” is no excuse, ex-post-facto or not.
It looks like this abortuary will be defeated because someone did some work and read lots of boring city ordinances.
See how sneaky those Planned Parenthood people are, they would try to sneak their vile “clinic” into the city of Aurora. They will just have to find another place to perform their bloody sacrifices to “convenience”.
abortuary: A place where Quasi Murder (Abortion) finds sanctuary
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