Posted on 01/06/2010 9:47:50 AM PST by TaraP
(CNSNews.com) A coalition of pro-life advocates and religious leaders plan to gather in Houston on Jan. 18 to oppose what is expected to be the largest abortion clinic in the country.
Planned Parenthood is renovating a former bank, turning it into a 78,000 square foot facility that will include a surgical wing equipped to provide late-term abortions.
Its an abortion super center, Lou Engle, founder of the pro-life group The Call to Conscience, which is organizing the rally, told CNSNews.com Joining Engle at the prayer march will be Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, and Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. Religious leaders expected to attend include Bishop Harry Jackson, senior pastor of Hope Christian Church; Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention; Star Parker, president of the Coalition for Urban Renewal and Education; and Abby Johnson, the former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic.
Engle compared the fight for the rights of the unborn to another critical movement in America. As Martin Luther King , Jr. said, It is time to subpoena the conscience of America, he said.
We want to say that its not right to have an abortion super center that targets the minority community, Engle said. He says Planned Parenthood actively markets its services, including abortion, to low-income, minority women.
Last month, Houston elected the first lesbian, Annise Parker, to hold the mayoral office in a major U.S. city. Until her inauguration this week, the director of Health and Environmental Policy for the mayors office was Elena Marks, chairwoman of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Attempts to reach Marks for comment on the clinic and the planned rally were unsuccessful.
Engle said he believes the clinic was strategically located in a part of Houston that is surrounded by black and Hispanic neighborhoods
***Engle said he believes the clinic was strategically located in a part of Houston that is surrounded by black and Hispanic neighborhoods***
Just advertise this fact and the place will never open.
What’s it to be called?
Abominations ‘R’ Us?
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Are you sure that’s the place? I don’t see the Arbeit Macht Frei sign.
Don't tell me that God doesn't have a sense of humor.
God be with the people in Houston who will be protesting on January 18. I will be praying from here in Michigan.
I am wondering if this MEDICAL facility will be held to the same standards as other MEDICAL facilities?
Wow! PP is already rubbing their hands together greedily and spending the money they foresee coming from Health Care Reform bill. The anti-abortion amendments in the House and Senate bills were just games played to get Nelson and his ilk to cross over to a “Yea” vote. They’ll be removed in the “behind closed doors” meetings.
What’s a cash register?
Amen and Amen!
The abomination of desolation?
That would be a Spot On description of it!
REALLY big thunderstorms.
I wouldn't stand too close to that building during a thunderstorm.
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Don’t bet on that- the Hispanics, Blacks, and so-called “Christians” have been Silenced in This City and IN America!
Look at what just happened a week ago in Houston - The FIRST Lesbian IN the Nation - was inaugerated as MAYOR!!
And where were the Hispanics, Blacks, and the Mega-Churches - Like Lakewood First Baptist, and Second Baptist with their Thousands of Members??
- in Stopping ALL this??
Nowhere!!
This Abomination of Planned Barrenhood Will open in this city of Sodomm UNLESS the Lord intervvenes - Quickly!!
Re: “Just advertise this fact and the place will never open.”
Remember Holly Patterson, killed by Planned Parenthood, RU486. I will not forget.
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