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by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorAugust 27, 2007Aurora, IL (LifeNews.com) -- The new abortion center in Aurora that Planned Parenthood is expected to open within weeks saw more than 1,200 pro-life advocates protest and pray there over the weekend. What started as a small group of local pro-life advocates weeks ago has turned into a national movement against the new facility.The pro-life activists gathered at 3051 E. New York, the site of a new abortion business that was built entirely in secret until just weeks ago.Planned Parenthood got around public knowledge and opposition by calling the building the Gemini Health Center in...

Over 1,300 Illinois Citizens Protest Largest Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic By Elizabeth O'Brien AURORA, Illinois, August 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On Saturday over one thousand pro-lifers met to protest before the recently erected facilities or what is said to be the nation's largest Planned Parenthood center in Aurora, Illinois, just outside Chicago. Pro-Life Action League Communications Director Eric Schiedler told LifeSiteNews.com that at least 1,300 pro-lifers participated in the protest. About 900 formed two large picket lines on York Street and another 250 were at a prayer vigil sight next to the new Planned Parenthood center. Another 75 people participated...

Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains will break ground in November on a $4.2 million headquarters and clinic on northeast Denver property it bought secretly last year, the organization has confirmed. The organization initially intended to complete the whole project in secrecy in order to avoid the kind of protests and delays that Planned Parenthood's building projects have ignited elsewhere, said Leslie Durgin, a Planned Parenthood senior vice president.

Health officials inspected only one of the state's six licensed abortion clinics in the past two years - despite a requirement that they be investigated every other year - before complaints eventually brought inspectors to two of the clinics, a Press investigation has revealed. Those two clinics were then closed immediately due to health violations that posed "immediate and serious risk of harm to patients." The investigations of the Alternatives clinic in Atlantic City and Metropolitan Medical Associates in Englewood, Bergen County, marked the first time those clinics had been inspected in six and five years, respectively. The abrupt closing...

Wichita, KS (LifeNews.com) -- Infamous late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller was supposed to be arraigned this week on 19 criminal misdemeanor changes of allegedly illegal late-term abortions. However, in a surprise and hushed move, Tiller plead not guilty on Friday to the charges in an effort to avoid the media and pro-life protests. Tiller appeared in the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office for processing and was released on his own recognizance, which is common for misdemeanor cases. His attorney, Lee Thompson, would not tell the Associated Press why Tiller secretly went in five days early to enter his plea. “The law...

Email to a friend   Crossroads Walkers Inspire Listeners at Several Toronto Region Speaking Engagements By Steve Jalsevac TORONTO, August 3, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Crossroads Canada team of young pro-life walkers spent a very busy weekend in Toronto last weekend. They prayed at a Toronto abortion clinic and were well received during their speaking engagements at four Catholic churches, a Catholic lay ministry event and an evangelical church at locations all over the Greater Toronto region from Friday to Sunday. Friday afternoon, walkers Cyril Doll, Ben Broussard, Tom Woodard, Wendy Macagno and Cheryl Gallaher also paid a visit...

Wichita, KS (LifeNews.com) -- The controversial late-term abortion facility in Wichita is closed this weekend next while abortion practitioner George Tiller is arraigned on charges he did illegal abortions. Tiller has been charged by the state's attorney general with violating a law requiring the signature of a doctor vouching that the abortion is medically necessary. Tiller is scheduled to be arraigned next Tuesday on 19 criminal counts of doing abortions in violation of the law and he could face 19 years in jail if convicted and sentenced to the maximum prison time. As a result of the legal proceedings, Tiller...

First Private Abortion Mill Opens in Portugal 30 women came for abortions on its first day of operation By John Jalsevac LISBON, Portugal, July 31, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Portugal's first private abortion center has opened up in Lisbon, reports the Los Angeles Times today. Located just off the Avenida da Liberdade, the brand-new abortion mill, called Dos Arcos, reportedly has a large staff of 22 gynecologists, technicians and administrators. According to the LA Times, 30 women came to Dos Arcos on its first day of operation. "We are the first clinic," said owner Yolanda Hernandez, who has been in the...

Lisbon, Portugal (LifeNews.com) -- An abortion practitioner in Spain has opened the first private abortion business in Portugal now that the western European nation has legalized abortion. The new law allowing abortions up to 10 weeks into the pregnancy went into effect on July 15 despite a handful of Portuguese citizens voting for it. When abortion was illegal in the largely Catholic nation, Portuguese residents often went to Spain to have abortions at the facility run by Yolanda Hernandez. Now, the owner of an abortion business for three decades has opened a new center in Portugal. The new business will...

7-27-2007 Abortion Clinic Sneaks into Chicagoland A $7.5 million Planned Parenthood abortion clinic that will open in September in Aurora, Ill., is taking the Chicago area by surprise, the Chicago Tribune reports. Neighbors thought they were seeing the completion of the "Gemini Health Center," just as the sign says. So did the painters, carpenters, electricians and other tradesmen who have been working on the project for the last eight months. Just last week, Aurora Councilman Chris Beykirch learned that Planned Parenthood was moving in."Frankly, I'm surprised we were able to keep it a secret for so long," Steve Trombley, president...

AURORA -- A lack of women's health services in the region, particularly abortion providers, prompted a full-service Planned Parenthood medical office on Aurora's far northeast side. Scheduled to open the middle of September, the medical complex will offer reproductive and women's health-care services, with an estimated 10 percent of that coming from abortions. If women need abortion services now, many have to travel to Chicago's North Side, where Planned Parenthood operates a clinic, said Steve Trombley, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area. "Because of the limited number of providers unfortunately women have to travel long distances," he said. An...

Austin, TX (LifeNews.com) -- A Texas man who unsuccessfully tried to set off a bomb at an Austin abortion business pleaded guilty Friday on five criminal counts. Paul Ross Evans, who is 27, could find himself in prison for 40 years if convicted of his actions, which pro-life groups have soundly condemned. Sutton left a duffle bag containing explosives in the parking lot of the Austin Women's Health Center abortion facility one week after the Supreme Court handed down its decision upholding the partial-birth abortion ban. An employee of the abortion center found the bag April 25 with the explosives...

Saturday, July 7, 2007 -- Family Planning Associates, San Diego A woman with her pit bull walked past me. When the dog approached to sniff my leg she pulled it away, then turned back and said, “I should have let him poop on you!”Posted Saturday, July 21, 2007 1:06 PM By Anne Who is providing security guards to protect the unborn baby children being terminated by abortion at Family Planning Associates? If anyone in this scenerio needs a security guard, it is the unborn who are the most defenceless and vulnerable victims of abortion that truly do need security guards...

As many as 10,000 abortions Pioneer late-term San Diego abortionist Donald Byrnes dead at 73 Pioneer late-term abortionist Donald G. Byrnes, 73, of San Diego died on January 30, 2007, according to Planned Parenthood of San Diego and Riverside Counties. Byrnes was one of the first obstetricians to delve into the abortion business after the passing of the 1967 California Therapeutic Abortion Act, performing abortions up to 20 weeks gestation. He operated an abortion office on Upas Street in the Hillcrest area of San Diego, which was the site of a major Operation Rescue clinic blockade in 1990. During that...

CRANFORD, NJ, July 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - This week New Jersey Right to Life (NJRL) Executive Director Marie Tasy wrote to Public Advocate Ronald K. Chen, calling his attention to the filthy conditions of NJ abortion clinics, pointing out the lack of State inspection and requesting that the situation be remedied immediately. In April Tasy filed an Open Records Act Request in order to view the inspection record of abortion clinics within the State of New Jersey. According to the Department of Health (DH) policy, clinics must be inspected every other year; but Tasy learned that when it came to...

ATLANTIC CITY — A troubled doctor’s expected purchase of a shuttered city abortion clinic has raised the ire of anti-abortion activists, who picketed in front of the facility Monday afternoon, demanding the state not approve the deal. Signs insisting the state block any sale of the clinic to Dr. Steven Chase Brigham, whose incidents of botched abortions and unorthodox methods led to the termination of his license in New York and Florida, lined the sidewalk in front of the Pacific Avenue clinic. “Our main focus is to block this Brigham sale,” said Chris Slattery, president of Expectant Mother Care, a...

Wichita, KS (LifeNews.com) -- Hundreds of pro-life advocates gathered on Sunday night for a protest at the abortion business of late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller. He has been charged with 19 misdemeanors for violating state laws that require more than one doctor to sign off on an abortion done after the baby is viable. The pro-life advocates gathered to pray for an end to abortion and for closure of the site of alleged illegal late-term abortions. They also remembered the death of Kristin Gilbert, a 19 year-old mentally disabled girl from Texas who died after a botched abortion there two...

More young people continue to arrive for the Wichita AwakeningContact: Troy Newman, President, 316-841-1700; Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Policy Advisor, 316-516-3034; both with Operation Rescue, info@operationrescue.org WICHITA, Kansas, July 15 /Christian Newswire/ -- An estimated crowd of 500 turned out for a Candlelight Prayer Vigil outside George Tiller's infamous late-term abortion mill to kick off the Wichita Awakening Saturday evening. Rev. Rob Schenck led the group in prayer for an end to abortion. Rev. Pat Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition also addressed the group. As music played, the group surrounded the clinic, lifting their hands in prayer that the abortion...

Contact: Dane Rose, Program Director, Faith and Action, 202-546-8329 ext. 106., 703-447-1072 cell WASHINGTON, July 13 /Christian Newswire/ -- Hugely popular radio and television commentator Bill O'Reilly of Fox News has done several exposes of infamous third-trimester abortionist George Tiller of Wichita, Kansas. Tiller operates one of the largest abortion businesses specializing in terminating fully viable babies nearing their due dates. The Reverend Rob Schenck (pronounced SHANK), founder of Faith and Action in Washington, DC, and president of the National Clergy Council, will travel to Wichita tomorrow to lead a candlelight prayer vigil near Tiller's abortion business at 5107 E. Kellogg,...

The area's sole abortion clinic was shut down late last week by state officials after inspectors discovered several violations within the facility, including problems with infection control, a state health department spokesman confirmed Monday. State inspectors returned to the Alternatives clinic Monday to conduct a full survey of the facility after discovering the violations Friday. Investigators were led to the Pacific Avenue clinic by an anonymous complaint to the state concerning “change of ownership issues,” said Tom Slater, spokesman for the state's Department of Health and Human Services. Slater could not give any more information about the complaint, except to...