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Operation Rescue has launched Project Daniel 5:25 -- a reference to scripture dealing with handwriting on the wall. Operation Rescue has done extensive research to determine how many abortion clinics have closed in the last two decades. Spokesman Troy Newman believes the days of legal abortion in America are numbered. "[We] come up with a number of nearly 1,500 of these abortion clinics that have closed and not reopened," he explains. "And so just like the biblical story of Daniel, [who] reads the handwriting on the wall that says that this wicked kingdom will soon come to an end, it...

Charlotte, NC (LifeNews.com) -- A legal abortion on a woman at a Charlotte, North Carolina abortion center may have clamed her life. Local pro-life advocates shot video footage of an ambulance taking a woman from the A Preferred Women's Health Center abortion facility on Sunday. The video shows a woman taken on a gurney from the abortion center to a waiting ambulance.However, she was completely covered from head to toe with no sign of movement and the man who took the video says this is different than women other women who have suffered from botched abortions have been transported to...

movement is winning the abortion battle because nearly 1,500 abortion businesses have closed down since 1991. The report, from Operation Rescue, is an encouragement at a time when the pro-life community is frustrated by the abortion-health care debate in Congress. The pro-life group says the number of abortion facilities has declined as polls have shown Americans increasingly pro-life. "We now have an accurate listing of every open abortion clinic in the country," Operation Rescue president Troy Newman told LifeNews.com. "In 1991, it was estimated that there were nearly 2,200 abortion clinics in the country, today there are just 713." "The...

The new late-term abortion clinic / Pro-life leader Karen Garnett Dallas, Texas, Nov 8, 2009 / 07:12 pm (CNA).- An abortionist who says he know he is “killing” has opened a late-term abortion clinic in North Texas, prompting local pro-lifers to express their dismay that such a clinic was absent for only 14 months. However, they also affirmed their resolve to peacefully end the “grave evil” in their community. Dr. Curtis Boyd, who opened the first abortion clinic in Texas in 1973, is the only doctor in North Texas who will perform abortions on women up to six months...

Pensacola pro-lifers celebrate their victory. Credit: 40 Days for Life Pensacola, Fla., Nov 8, 2009 / 04:12 am (CNA).- An abortion facility in Pensacola, Florida has announced that it will close, bringing joy to participants in the three 40 Days for Life prayer vigils at the site. One pro-life organizer said the closing was “an answer to prayer.”The Community Healthcare Center, which was dually licensed as an abortion clinic and as a clinical laboratory, faced a $413,000 fine after the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) found its lab license had been expired for 413 days. The clinic...

PENSACOLA, November 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Last Friday, the 38th day of the autumn 40 Days for Life Campaign, the abortion facility at 6700 North 9th Avenue in Pensacola, Florida posted a 'Closed' sign on its door as pro-lifers prayed and kept vigil outside.Ernie Cyr, the Pensacola 40 Days for Life coordinator, said the local 40 Days for Life team didn't even realize at the time what they were witnessing - the permanent closure of an abortion facility that had been in operation for more than 25 years.Cyr explained that law enforcement officers went into the clinic on Friday...

Catholic League president Bill Donohue received a letter today from Patrick W. Hayes, Legal Director, City of Rockford, Illinois, saying that his office asked the owner of the Northern Illinois Women’s Center to remove the offensive poster of Jesus that we complained about yesterday. Donohue thanked Hayes for his intervention, but also took issue with him about some other matters. Below is an excerpt of his letter: Your analogy between the poster in question and pictures of aborted children fails. The pictures are a representation of real life—they are not deliberately doctored. Nor are they a bigoted portrayal. Moreover, anti-war...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- David Bereit, the national director of the pro-life 40 Days for Life campaign that involves peaceful prayer and education outside local abortion centers, told local organizers before the latest campaign to be ready for something exciting to happen. For Bereit and the pro-life advocates participating in the event in Bakersfield, California, that something exciting is the resignation of an employee at a local abortion business.Tim Palmquist, who is leading the 40 Days for Life event in this large central California city, sent Bereit an urgent email: "An employee of the Bakersfield FamilyPlanning Association abortion center has...

Indianapolis, IN (LifeNews.com) -- Planned Parenthood of Indiana says it will close five of its 34 centers across the state due to changes in the way the federal government allocates family planning funds. The decision to close the centers comes after an expose' found two of them hiding instances of possible statutory rape.In Indianapolis, the abortion business is closing its center near Michigan Road and 86th Street.According to a press statement, Planned Parenthood will also close facilities in Anderson, Kokomo, Franklin and Shelbyville.The centers are closing despite the record amount of money the abortion business received from the federal government...

Planned Parenthood has asked a judge to prevent South Dakota from suspending or revoking its license to perform abortions because of state claims that it violated a law requiring doctors to tell women that abortion ends a human life. Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota requested a temporary restraining order in response to a letter it received Monday from the state Department of Health. The letter, included in the court file, lists numerous deficiencies reportedly found in May during an inspection of the state's only abortion clinic, in Sioux Falls. The agency gave Planned Parenthood, which operates the clinic,...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A pro-abortion legal group that represents abortion businesses in lawsuits against pro-life laws in almost every state in the nation says the number of abortion centers nationwide is falling. The figures come as Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion business, increases its number of abortion facilities. The Center for Reproductive Rights released the results of a study it conducted saying the number of abortion businesses and abortion practitioners has decreased by 25 percent since the 1990s.CRR indicates some states, such as Mississippi and North Dakota, have only one abortion facility while Missouri has three. Alabama...

A total of seven centers have been closed. Rita Diller is the new executive director of STOPP International, which is a part of the American Life League. "Most of these were abortion referral centers and they distributed morning-after pills and other devices that can cause early abortion," Diller explains. The centers also doubled as HIV/AIDS outreach centers. However, Diller says the facilities became a hangout for homosexuals. In one instance, Diller says a cross-dresser would arrive at a center, change into women's clothing, and cruise homosexual bars -- returning afterward to change back into men's clothing. That man, she says,...

MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH Planned Parenthood Shuts Doors on 7 Clinics 'One by one, with hard work and prayer, these facilities are closing down' Posted: June 30, 2009 10:13 pm Eastern By Drew Zahn © 2009 WorldNetDaily Seventy-two years ago Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger visited El Paso, Texas, delivered a speech proclaiming the need for the acceptance of birth control and helped found the city's first family planning clinic. But last week, Analinda Moreno, Planned Parenthood of El Paso's interim executive director, announced all seven of the organization's clinics in the El Paso area would permanently close today....

Contact: Troy Newman, President, 316-841-1700; Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Policy Advisor, 316-516-3034; both with Operation Rescue, info@operationrescue.org   WICHITA, Kansas, June 20 /Christian Newswire/ -- Undeterred by heavy rains throughout the day and threats of disruption by abortion supporters, pro-lifers gathered Saturday evening at the now-closed late-term abortion clinic once operated by George Tiller for a memorial and prayer service.   Under skies that had temporarily cleared, a group of about 35 people laid hundreds of flowers at the clinic in honor of the babies and the women injured and killed there. The group offered prayers for peace and healing for the...

WICHITA - About 30 members of anti-abortion groups met Saturday at the headquarters of Operation Rescue for a memorial service and to pray for healing from the shooting death of abortion provider George Tiller. They later laid flowers at various locations. "This is a time for healing and life," the Rev. Patrick Mahoney, head of the Washington-based Christian Defense Coalition told those attending. "We're not celebrating the death of Dr. Tiller." Tiller was shot to death in his church May 31. Scott Roeder, 51, of Kansas City, Mo., has been charged with first-degree and aggravated assault in the case. He...

Pasco, WA (LifeNews.com) -- Planned Parenthood is coming under fire for plans to put a new center near an elementary school in eastern Washington state. Planned Parenthood of Central Washington is looking at a new center in Pasco, that would open up next to Mark Twain Elementary School.The center won't do abortions, but will make abortion referrals and could begin doing abortions sometime down the road.The idea that the pro-abortion group would put a center next to the school irks Deeana Hoyt, who operates a day care nearby."To put such a highly volatile business right next to an elementary...

Operation Rescue President Troy Newman said he would love to make an offer for the property and that his group had discussed the idea. Newman's group bought another former abortion clinic in Wichita in 2006 for its headquarters. Newman said Operation Rescue could use more space.

The family of Dr. George Tiller announced today that effective immediately, Women's Health Care Services, Inc., will be permanently closed. Notice is being given today to all concerned that the Tiller family is ceasing operation of the clinic and any involvement by family members in any other similar clinic. Dr. Tiller was shot to death May 31st. Scott Roeder has been charged with murder. A statement released this morning said, "The Tiller family wishes to assure Dr. Tiller's past patients that the privacy of their medical histories and patient records will remain as fiercely protected now and in the future...

Family of Abortion Practitioner George Tiller Will Close Business Wichita, KS -- The family of late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller, who was recently shot to death, has confirmed they will close is late-term abortion business permanently. The family's attorneys released a statement Tuesday saying the Women's Health Care Services abortion center will be "permanently closed." See http://www.LifeNews.com/state4217.html

Kansas, June 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a statement released today, the attorneys of late-term abortionist George Tiller confirmed that his Wichita abortion facility would shut its doors permanently, following Tiller's murder last month."The family of Dr. George Tiller announces that effective immediately, Women's Health Care Services, Inc., will be permanently closed," stated attorneys Lee Thompson and Dan Monnat today. "Notice is being given today to all concerned that the Tiller family is ceasing operation of the clinic and any involvement by family members in any other similar clinic."The statement went on to praise Tiller's "service and courage" and asserted that Tiller's...

Women's Health Care Services, the clinic run by slain abortion provider George Tiller, will resume operations next Monday, a physician who worked with Tiller said Monday. The clinic at 5107 E. Kellogg will remain closed the rest of this week so staff members and family can mourn Tiller's death, said LeRoy Carhart, a Nebraska physician who has come to Tiller's clinic on a rotating basis for more than 10 years. "What people need to know is... the women's services that we provided for 30 years are not going to change," Carhart said. "The same abortion services will remain available in...

U.S. Marshals were sent to guard abortion clinics across America today amid fears the murder of a controversial doctor could spark a new wave of violence. The move by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder came hours after George Tiller, one of only three American doctors carrying out late-term abortions, was gunned down in the church where he was working as an usher and his wife was in the choir.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder dispatched the U.S. Marshals Service to protect “appropriate people and facilities around the nation” in the wake of the killing Sunday morning of late-term abortion provider Dr. George Tiller in Wichita, Kan. Likely top candidate for federal protection: Boulder physician Warren Hern, believed to be the last remaining doctor in the world to provide late-term abortions. Hern, director of the Boulder Abortion Clinic, told The Colorado Independent that Tiller’s assassination is the “absolutely inevitable consequence” of decades of anti-abortion fanaticism. “Every doctor that does abortions has been under an assassination threat for decades,” Hern said...

Baby Boy Rowan Aborted into Toilet and SURVIVES   NOTE: The full story is embargoed until Monday, April 25, 2005.   Date of Incident: April 2, 2005   At nearly 23 gestational weeks old the little boy fought bravely when he was delivered alive as a result of an induction of labor abortion. As soon as she caught sight of her beautiful son, Rowan's mother experienced an epiphany. Here are excerpts from the testimony of what she saw after her child was delivered:   "His right leg moved. I screamed ... pants down, blood everywhere ... I pushed my pinkie...

ORANGE COUNTY Alejandra in Orange County passed along this amazing report of how one little girl's faith helped to save the life of a baby: "Tim came to me with his daughter and told me that his little girl (about 4 years old) told him before he went to Planned Parenthood, 'Take this plate of cookies and give it to a Mommy. Tell her to keep them so that she can give them to her baby when he is born.' When Tim approached one of the women that he talked to last Saturday morning, he told her the message of...

ROCKFORD, Illinois, March 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Grotesque "decorations" in the windows of a notorious Rockford abortion facility, featuring rubber chickens hanging from nooses, led to a life saved, after two young men, disgusted by the display, convinced their pregnant companion to leave the building.The incident took place last Friday at the Northern Illinois Women's Center in Rockford IL, where two men had brought a 17-year-old female friend for an abortion.  Kevin Rilott, a pro-life veteran at the notorious Rockford mill, reports that the young men came out of the building and began conversing with pro-life participants in the...

Abortion facility to close following 40 Days for Life campaign   Shawn Carney (right) of the national 40 Days for Life team, with two Orange County, California campaign leaders, standing next to the real estate sign that was placed outside the abortion facility on Day 39 of the fall 40 Days for Life.The abortion center is going to close its doors and shut down. As you look at that picture, think about what it will feel like when the abortion facility or Planned Parenthood nearest to you posts a similar sign — the day when you realize that due to...

The board of the Madison Surgery Center unanimously approved an abortion clinic on Friday, meaning second-trimester abortions will be offered there within a few months.The facility, at 1 S. Park St., will provide abortions primarily to women 19 to 22 weeks pregnant. The service will replace the practice of Dr. Dennis Christensen, who had performed abortions up to 22 weeks at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Madison until he retired in December. Planned Parenthood will still do abortions up to 19 weeks.Peggy Hamill, state director of Pro-Life Wisconsin, repeated earlier calls for a boycott of the facility and said protests...

MADISON-- WIBA 1310 AM radio talk show host Vicki McKenna recently welcomed former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino onto her show to discuss the second trimester abortions he once performed regularly while practicing in Troy, New York. Levatino estimates that he performed 9 to 10 abortions per week at his OB practice over the course of eight years, including 1,200 D&E (Dilation and Extraction) procedures that are used to abort pregnancies in the second trimester. McKenna interviewed Levatino today on “Up Front” because of plans to establish a clinic at the University of Wisconsin's Madison Surgery Center which would perform the...

It’s happened again. Yet another Planned Parenthood clinic has been caught on tape advocating a girl circumvent state law in order to obtain an abortion. This time, the stage was the Margaret Sanger Center in Tuscon, Arizona, where UCLA student and Live Action Films President Lila Rose went undercover with a friend, Jackie Stollar. As reported by Live Action’s press release: … Rose tells the nurse that Stollar, posing as a 15-year-old, is pregnant by her 27-year-old boyfriend. The nurse disregards the age difference and even cautions Stollar not to bring her "boyfriend" before the judicial hearing required in Arizona...

From fetal defects and women’s health risks to late recognition of pregnancy and lack of money, the reasons for second-trimester abortions vary, say doctors who support a clinic that would perform the procedures in Madison, WI. "Unfortunately, some women don’t find out that there is a lethal anomaly or other problems with their fetus until quite late," said Dr. Julie Fagan, a women’s health specialist at University of Wisconsin Hospital. But opponents say the only situation where a woman should consider an abortion at any stage — a serious threat to her life — would require her to go to...

From fetal defects and women’s health risks to late recognition of pregnancy and lack of money, the reasons for second-trimester abortions vary, say doctors who support a clinic that would perform the procedures in Madison. “Unfortunately, some women don’t find out that there is a lethal anomaly or other problems with their fetus until quite late,” said Dr. Julie Fagan, a women’s health specialist at UW Hospital. But opponents say the only situation where a woman should consider an abortion at any stage — a serious threat to her life — would require her to go to a hospital, not...

Activists from either side of the abortion divide met face-to-face in a noisy, sometimes heated, confrontation Saturday outside the Madison clinic that may soon provide second-trimester abortions. As many as 800 anti-abortion activists from around Wisconsin marched to the Madison Surgery Center, at 1 S. Park St., from University of Wisconsin-Madison Library Mall. State and national leaders of the anti-abortion movement speaking at Library Mall urged the marchers to hold UW Hospital officials accountable for their decision on whether to permit the procedures. News about a proposal to provide abortions to women at 18 weeks to 22 weeks of pregnancy...

Friday January 30, 2009 Lawsuit Filed for Baby Born Alive at Abortion Clinic then Killed and Hidden from Police MIAMI, Fla., January 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On Tuesday, January 27, 2009, suit was filed by the Thomas More Society in Miami on behalf of Shanice Denise Osbourne, an infant girl who was allegedly murdered in July, 2006. The case claims that Shanice was born alive and then murdered by abortion clinic owner, Belkis Gonzalez. Thirteen defendants (including Gonzalez, abortionist Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacques Renelique and their conglomerate of four South Florida abortion clinics) have been sued for unlicensed and unauthorized...

The Elliot Institute has released a report that exposes America's forced abortion epidemic. Elliot Institute spokesperson Amy Solby tells OneNewsNow that one study found 64 percent of women who had abortions reported they felt pressured to abort by others. "Something like 80 percent of them said that they didn't get the counseling they needed to make a good decision, that often they were not given counseling at all, or that the counseling they had was inadequate," she explains.

Hit with declines in funding from the economic crisis and the Madoff scandal, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America is laying off around 20% of its staff. Roughly 30 people were let go earlier this week, according to a source who works for the nonprofit. Executives at Planned Parenthood confirmed the layoffs, but declined to give more details. “As with many other nonprofit organizations, Planned Parenthood has had to make staff reductions at our headquarters due to the challenging economic times facing our country,” said Maryana Iskander, chief operating officer at the agency. “While taking this action is never easy,...

Contact: Katie Walker, Director of Communication, American Life League, 540-659-4942, kwalker@all.org WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 /Christian Newswire/ -- American Life League and the Diocese of Amarillo scored a major victory this week as Planned Parenthood prepares to completely withdraw from the Texas Panhandle. Using American Life League's STOPP project to defeat Planned Parenthood the nation's largest abortion chain has been completely eradicated from the diocese of Amarillo, Texas. "Once again we see that the STOP Planned Parenthood plan works – even on a grand scale," said Jim Sedlak, vice president of American Life League and director of the STOPP project. "We...

Contact: Rev. Dr. Johnny Hunter, DD, National Director. LEARN, Inc., 910-488-9936, contact@johnnymhunter.comFAYETTEVILLE, North Carolina, October 24 /Christian Newswire/ -- Black pro-life activists with graphic signs will be in Fayetteville on tomorrow morning at 10:00 am at 4551 Yadkin Road in Fayetteville, NC, to expose what is believed to be a stealth Planned Parenthood Abortion clinic in the making. Pastor Johnny Hunter says that when he received word that Planned Parenthood was hiding behind the name Tharrington Medical Clinic to renovate the old Pizza Hut building on Yakin road and turn it into an abortion clinic he became angry. "I refuse...

A funeral will be held for Baby Shanice Denise Osbourne in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, next week, over 26 months after she was born alive during an abortion, shoved into a biohazard bag, and tossed on the roof of a Hialeah abortion mill to die. Clinic owner Belkis Gonzales, a woman with no medical background, delivered the African-American baby girl after the mother reported to the abortion clinic complaining of discomfort. She had started the process of abortion the previous day. Abortionist Pierre Renelique was contacted when the patient reported to the clinic but never answered his page. According a police...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (LifeSiteNews) - On Monday, July 21, eight women arrived at the Planned Parenthood office in Sioux Falls in South Dakota for abortions, but were instead met with locked doors and a hand-written note indicating the only abortion clinic in South Dakota was closed. Planned Parenthood closed its doors after their abortionists, who are flown in from other states, refused to work under the new law that went into effect last Friday. The law orders abortionists to inform patients of the humanity of their babies and that the procedure could affect their mental health two hours before the...

In two previous campaigns by Christians to disrupt America's abortion industry with continuous prayer, officials with the 40 Days for Life campaign say 35,000 have participated in vigils, 514 babies have been saved and five abortion industry workers have lost their jobs. Now a third campaign is on the calendar, with a signup deadline of July 29 for cities to take part in the outreach. Most locations will have prayer warriors on the sidewalks outside abortion clinics 24 hours a day from Sept. 24 through Nov. 2. Spokesman David Bereit said the first campaigns have seen 150,000 people praying and...

by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor July 21, 2008 Sioux Falls, SD (LifeNews.com) -- Monday was the first day that Planned Parenthood, which operates the only abortion business in South Dakota, had to comply with a new state law telling women the truth about abortion. Rather than tell women abortion kills children and has numerous risks, Planned Parenthood temporarily closed its doors.

Green, OH (LifeNews.com) -- Local pro-life advocates in this city near Akron successfully got local officials to evict an abortion business that set up shop near a legitimate medical center. Formerly known as Ohio Women's Center, G&H Healthcare served as an abortion business in the city of Green in Summit County.G&H was located in an office complex and, according to Judith Hoyt, an officer with Summit County Right to Life, the neighboring medical center received constant questions about whether it did abortions."The Fresenius Medical Care Center located next door to the G&H Healthcare clinic became offended when several people...

Sioux Falls, SD -- Monday was the first day that Planned Parenthood, which operates the only abortion business in South Dakota, had to comply with a new state law telling women the truth about abortion. Rather than tell women abortion kills children and has numerous risks, Planned Parenthood closed its doors. The state law, which the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld last week, required abortion practitioners to inform every woman that she is terminating the life of a human being. It requires giving her information about the mental health complications such as a high risk of depression and suicide...

Late-Term Abortion Facility in Dallas To Close - Eighth Closure Since Bishop Began Prayer at Clinics 24 hours a day, 7 days a week ecumenical effort was organized, with more than 800 people from 89 churches and several denominations The Catholic Pro-Life Committee, the Respect Life Ministry of the Catholic Diocese of Dallas, has reported that Aaron Women's Health Center, a late-term abortion facility in Dallas will be closing its doors on June 28. Aaron's was one of three abortion clinics in Texas authorized to perform late-term abortions on unborn babies older than 16 weeks gestation.  When Bishop Charles Grahmann...

Pro-Life Groups Celebrate Closing of Dallas Late-Term Abortion Business Dallas, TX (LifeNews.com) -- The rash of abortion centers closing down continues and pro-life advocates in Dallas, Texas are excited to learn that they're next on the list. Aaron Women’s Health Center, a late-term abortion facility, will be closing its doors, and that's good news for the people who have prayed for this day to come. The closing follows on the heels of recent closures of abortion centers in other states, including Kentucky and New York.

Planned Parenthood's New Approach Draws Critics Planned Parenthood is building new, more stylishly appointed health centers as part of an effort to attract more-affluent patients and increase its revenue, but some critics say that Planned Parenthood is drifting away from its original mission, reports The Wall Street Journal. Planned Parenthood has built two large new health centers, with at least five more on the way, and has opened more than two-dozen “express centers,” which offer faster service and sell merchandise. Many of the centers are located in suburban shopping malls. Last year, the organization altered its mission statement, which used...

Allentown, PA (LifeNews.com) -- The Allentown Women's Center abortion business in Pennsylvania is tired of the constant presence of pro-life advocates outside its facility. In a passive aggressive effort to intimidate the protesters and compel them to stop, the abortion center is resorting to the old "Pledge a Protester" campaign. The abortion business hopes to raise money from supporters for every minute pro-life advocates appear outside the center to help women find abortion alternatives. "We're trying to get a no-lose situation," an AWC director Jennifer Boulanger told WFMZ-TV. She said the funds will go to pro-abortion groups. "Remember, the longer...

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Barack Obama, the presumptive pro-abortion nominee of the Democratic Party, has plans to reward the allies that helped him topple Hillary Clinton from her throne by making total unrestricted abortion in the United States his number one priority as president. In light of Obama's recently achieved status as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Focus on the Family's CitizenLink has decided to remind its supporters that almost one year has passed since Obama made his vows to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund that abortion would be the first priority of his administration. "The first...

Sarasota, FL, Jun 4, 2008 / 11:51 pm (CNA).- A Florida Habitat for Humanity affiliate has ceased to cooperate with Planned Parenthood’s attempt to build a new abortion facility in Sarasota, Florida. Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, wanted to open an abortion clinic in Sarasota, but due to zoning ordinances they were unable to do so. The obstacle seemed to have been overcome when Habitat for Humanity Sarasota agreed to purchase a Planned Parenthood property for $10 and to build housing on part of it. The agreement would have bypassed city requirements preventing Planned Parenthood from obtaining an...