Aurora Planned Parenthood weekend catch-up
1. Someone asked for the actual occupancy permit zoning appeal pro-lifers filed with the City of Aurora. Here ’tis:
Appeal as filed with the City of Aurora Clerk’s office
Appeal as filed with the Aurora Zoning Board of Appeals
Both are the same, just submitted to different City departments . Of note is they were dated and timed before Planned Parenthood’s scheduled opening October 2 at 10a.
2. Jeff at Chicago ProLife Activist attended Aurora Mayor Tom Weisner’s hastily assembled October 1, 3p, press conference, to forego alerting, and certainly involving, the City Council in his unilateral decision to let PP open 19 hours later, the following morning at 10a.
Of particular interest in Jeff’s as usual well done and pithily cut video is the admission by the Mayor’s office that it did apparently think to alert PP of his decision beforehand:
3. NAUSEA ALERT: If you were looking not to get riled on this pleasant autumn Saturday, do not watch the following t.v. ad PP Aurora began airing this week, which contains not just misinformation but actual false advertising. Can you spot it? Click on this very nice graphic to go to the ad:
[HT: reader Pat B.; moderator MK]
4. INSANE MSM BIASED BLAME GAME ALERT: This Aurora Beacon editorial blames pro-lifers for the legal stir PP provoked by its deceptive and stealth entry into its fine city (read entire piece on page 2):
Anti-abortion activists pushed for an investigation and got it, which cost the city thousands of dollars in legal fees. But now that they don’t like the outcome, they want to fight another expensive court battle that will cost the city more tax dollars. They should accept the result of the independent review they influenced in the first place.
[HT: OpenlineBlog]
5. Eric Scheidler’s October 5 email alert answers the question (read entire alert with plan and instructions on page 2):
Last week I asked you to sign up to speak at the next City Council meeting, this Tuesday, October 9. Now that Planned Parenthood has opened (at least for now) people are asking whether we still need to go to the meeting.
The answer is ABSOLUTELY. In fact, this is arguably the most important City Council meeting for us yet.
Aurora Beacon
Aurora mayor right to allow clinic to open
October 3, 2007
After a five-week investigation involving three attorneys, Aurora officials announced Monday that Planned Parenthood did not misrepresent itself enough during the development process for the city to deny an occupancy permit for its far East Side clinic. While anti-abortion activists will continue to push the city to find a reason to shut it down, the mayor had no choice but to allow the clinic to open, which it did Tuesday morning under protest.
We criticized Planned Parenthood for being dishonest by coming into Aurora under a subsidiary name and withholding information from aldermen while getting approval for the medical complex at Oakhurst Drive and New York Street. The two reports from independent attorneys hired by the city confirm that Gemini Office Development hid its affiliation with Planned Parenthood, but they concluded the developer did nothing that would allow the city to legally keep the clinic shuttered.
“Gemini’s failure to state the user or elaborate on the intended use of the facility cannot be seen as a material misrepresentation that can be used as a basis to refuse an occupancy permit,” wrote attorney Phillip Luetkehans in his report.
With the two attorneys finding no reason in civil law to deny a permit, and Kane County State’s Attorney John Barsanti finding no criminal conduct on the part of Planned Parenthood, the city was left with no other options. To deny a permit after the investigation found no basis for doing so would have opened the city up to “a significant risk of a lawsuit under the Civil Rights Act,” according to Luetkehans.
Either way, however, the city was going to land in court — again. The Pro-Life Action League has vowed to file a lawsuit claiming Aurora isn’t enforcing its zoning laws because it didn’t require a special-use permit and public hearing for the clinic. The attorney reports, however, dismissed that argument.
Anti-abortion activists pushed for an investigation and got it, which cost the city thousands of dollars in legal fees. But now that they don’t like the outcome, they want to fight another expensive court battle that will cost the city more tax dollars. They should accept the result of the independent review they influenced in the first place.
Protesters have lost this battle, although they will continue to picket the clinic, as is their right. We just ask that they treat Planned Parenthood’s employees and clients with respect. Aurora has already been thrust into the national spotlight during this process; we don’t need to make headlines for harassment, threats or violence.
Planned Parenthood followed the law and the clinic is open. Let’s move on.
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From: Eric Scheidler [mailto:eric@prolifeaction.org]
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 3:34 PM
To: Jill Stanek
Subject: Yes, we’re still on for City Hall Tuesday, Jill
Dear Jill,
Last week I asked you to sign up to speak at the next City Council meeting, this Tuesday, October 9. Now that Planned Parenthood has opened (at least for now) people are asking whether we still need to go to the meeting.
The answer is ABSOLUTELY. In fact, this is arguably the most important City Council meeting for us yet.
What Planned Parenthood and City officials have been counting on is that we would GIVE UP and GO AWAY once they managed to get the place open.
We need to show up Tuesday to show them that WE’RE HERE TO STAY and this fight is just beginning.
We also need to be there to counteract any Planned Parenthood supporters who show up to thank the Mayor Weisner for helping them.
Like last time, there will be two “fronts” at City Hall on Tuesday:
1. Citizen comments inside before the Council
2. A pro-life Rally outside to reach the public
What will we have to say to the City Council?
Our message Tuesday will be twofold:
to allow PP to open.
flawed and many questions remain unanswered.
I’m afraid I don’t have time to elaborate on these two points right now — I leave for Indianapolis shortly to lead a big pro-life protest tomorrow. So please check your e-mail Monday for details.
Meanwhile, please call the City Clerk at 630-844-3615 and sign up to speak. Sign up even if you’ll be way down on the list, because being on the list is the only way you’ll get in for the meeting.
Or if you’d rather join the Rally outside, just show up at 5:30 at City Hall, 44 E. Downer Place (map: http://tinyurl.com/yqvwaz).
See you there Tuesday!
Yours for Life,
— Eric
P.S. Please keep me and my sons Nate and Sam, my colleague Matt and my parents Ann and Joe in your prayers tomorrow during our all-day protest in Indianapolis.
Eric Scheidler
Communications Director
Pro-Life Action League
Tel: 773-251-8792
Pro-Life Action League,
6160 N Cicero Ave, Ste 600,
Chicago, IL 60646, USA
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Reasons to close Planned Parenthood
By DAVID BEREIT
Special to The Eagle
Last year, there were 6,876 compelling reasons to remove all funding from the Planned Parenthood operation that runs the Bryan clinic.
Why 6,876? Because Planned Parenthood?s annual report shows that its Bryan and Houston clinics performed 6,876 abortions in the past year. According to the organization?s annual summary, during the same period of time, its facilities provided only 42 women with prenatal care.
Planned Parenthood?s tax return demonstrates that abortions account for more than 24 percent of the group?s annual income throughout the region, and Houston 911 call records have documented at least two recent cases of women who were hospitalized after botched abortions at Planned Parenthood.
The facts clearly show why thousands of people are now demanding Planned Parenthood?s public records to know what businesses, foundations, and government entities are footing the bill for the organization?s harmful activities.
The Coalition for Life believes that these concerned individuals should have access to this public information.
The Coalition has attempted to contact every organization listed as a supporter by Planned Parenthood to verify the information and to explain why people are asking them to withhold funding from the abortion operation. Eleven of those groups have already committed to not support Planned Parenthood in the future, and we are hopeful that others will soon follow suit.
Community members who want to ensure that their hard-earned dollars do not go to any organization that underwrites Planned Parenthood can join with thousands of others who are visiting the Web site http://www.cutppfunding.com to learn more and to add their names to the petition that reads, ?We, the undersigned, ask businesses, government entities, and foundations to withhold all funding from Planned Parenthood.?
However, abortion is not the only reason that Texans are uniting against Planned Parenthood in record numbers. Here are just a few other reasons why concerned citizens are actively working to remove Planned Parenthood?s funding:
? Planned Parenthood puts women?s lives at risk to further its radical agenda. Even though an 18-year-old girl was recently killed by an RU-486 abortion at a Planned Parenthood facility, and even though the Food and Drug Administration is actively investigating the safety of the pill due to multiple deaths, Planned Parenthood continues to market and distribute the dangerous drug locally.
? Planned Parenthood encourages promiscuity among youth. According to an internal Planned Parenthood study conducted by Louis Harris pollsters, teens who participated in Planned-Parenthood-style sex education programs have a 50 percent higher rate of sexual activity than those who did not go through the programs, dramatically increasing their risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases.
? Planned Parenthood distributes obscene materials to children. Houston?s ABC-13 news recently described a Planned Parenthood promoted manual used in public schools as a ?graphic sex education book that targets children. The book includes cartoon pictures of full frontal nudity and illustrations of children performing sex acts.? Concerned parents can see what Planned Parenthood is promoting to children by visiting the organization?s Web site at http://www.teenwire.com. After viewing the site?s shocking and offensive material, community members will understand why Planned Parenthood was kicked out of Bryan public schools.
? Planned Parenthood has demonstrated a willingness to cover up sexual abuse of minors. In a recent national study, the vast majority of Planned Parenthood offices were found willing to conceal the sexual abuse of minors.
? Planned Parenthood takes millions of dollars from taxpayers? pockets. Even though an April Zogby poll found that 74 percent of Americans do not want tax dollars going to abortion providers, Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit against the state of Texas, forcing taxpayers to continue underwriting its agenda. Last year, the area organization showed a net profit of $17.4 million while taking in $4.66 million of taxpayer funding.
? Planned Parenthood executives profit from charity. The American Institute of Philanthropy?s Charity Watchdog Report documents that Planned Parenthood?s president is among the 25 highest-paid nonprofit executives in the country, and tax returns show that the group?s top five regional employees were collectively paid in excess of half a million dollars last year.
The Coalition for Life is committed to expand the efforts to cut Planned Parenthood?s cash flow. Scripture reminds us, ?With God all things are possible? … even removing funding from the largest abortion operation in Texas.
? David Bereit is executive director of the Coalition for Life in Bryan.
Is the little girl kissing that baby goodbye before Mommy leaves for Wichita, as referred by PP?
Regarding the “Nausea Alert”, the PP Aurora commercial’s last image shows a doctor examining a baby in her mother’s lap in an examining room. Since when did PP start offering pediatric services?
And the pregnant mom with happy daughter kissing her tummy in the beginning of the commercial with the voice-over talking about PREVENTATIVE services….. What a mixed message!
The lies just never end with PP. Every time we turn around they are lying. This whole PP situation in Aurora is proof to me that evil is at work in the hearts and minds of PP. It’s got a firm grasp of them. How sad.
I am a mother of 5 children; ages 26, 23, 21, 19 and l1. My oldest daughter was almost aborted. I had an abortion scheduled 3 different times in May, June of 1980 and not going through with this changed my life dramatically for the better and opened the door for a lot of healing and wholeness to come into my life. I’m sure this would not have happened if I had had the abortion. My daughter is a beautiful successful adult and a 1st grade teacher. She was always on the Honor roll in school and made the Dean’s list almost every semester in college. She’s none of the things that I was told by my doctor who recommended the abortion. She has no deformities or handicaps that I was assured she would have; and, I am ever so grateful and thankful for the family that was a part of a crisis pregnancy ministry that helped me back in 1980. There were so many people that cared for me, prayed for me and helped me with material things that I can never repay or thank adequately. I just want to say that even pregnancies that occur unexpectedly and in dire personal circumstances do not have to end in abortion. We need to spread this message as too many young women don’t even begin to be told the truth about this. Sincerely, Ellie Hill-Merica
It looks like that little girl in the Planned Parenthood ad blew up her mother’s belly like a balloon or a wad of gum.
It’s kind of surreal.
I left a comment at PP Aurora’s site asking whether the last shot in their video depicted (1) the actual PP obstetrican who delivered the baby, or (2) a pediatrician caring for a baby actually placed by PP’s adoption services. I told them that once they found out, I’d love to publicize the good deed all over the Blogosphere.
How come my comment never made it through moderation?
“How come my comment never made it through moderation?”
Because they are liars Henrietta…
One dark day in January of 1973, SATAN donned judicial robes!
Robes flowing, gavel in hand, he swept onto the floor of the United States
Supreme Court. He presided over the most atrocious travesty of justice
that ever took place, and he declared – we now have the ‘right’ to murder
the most innocent, in what should be the safest place in the universe for
them! And since then, tens of millions of babes have been assassinated in
their own mothers’ wombs! The darkness indeed grows deeper.”
–Fr. John Corapi S.O.L.T.
It’s amazing to me, not so much that they deceive, but that the deception is so blatant, and yet people still don’t see it. It’s wild!
I am a mother of 5 children; ages 26, 23, 21, 19 and l1. My oldest daughter was almost aborted. I had an abortion scheduled 3 different times in May, June of 1980 and not going through with this changed my life dramatically for the better and opened the door for a lot of healing and wholeness to come into my life. I’m sure this would not have happened if I had had the abortion. My daughter is a beautiful successful adult and a 1st grade teacher. She was always on the Honor roll in school and made the Dean’s list almost every semester in college. She’s none of the things that I was told by my doctor who recommended the abortion. She has no deformities or handicaps that I was assured she would have; and, I am ever so grateful and thankful for the family that was a part of a crisis pregnancy ministry that helped me back in 1980. There were so many people that cared for me, prayed for me and helped me with material things that I can never repay or thank adequately. I just want to say that even pregnancies that occur unexpectedly and in dire personal circumstances do not have to end in abortion. We need to spread this message as too many young women don’t even begin to be told the truth about this. Sincerely, Ellie Hill-Merica
Posted by: Elizabeth H Merica at October 6, 2007 6:00 PM
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Doctors rarely recomend abortions. Even in life threatening situations. You make baska up as you go.
Sally, what evidence do you have that abortion is rarely doctor recommended, even in life threatening situations?
George Tiller, notorious late abortionist, has to get another physician recommendation prior to his post-22-week abortions. So two doctors are recommending aborting viable babies for such specious diagnosis as maternal depression.
In 23 states, doctors are actually getting sued for “wrongful birth” for not diagnosing fetal abnormality and recommending abortion. These parents are audacious enough to sue for millions of dollars because they were deprived of the opportunity of killing their children in utero.
On a more personal note, I’ve had two friends who were strongly advised by their physicians to abort due to fetal abnormality.
So Sally, do you have any evidence that doctors rarely recommend abortion, even in extreme cases such as maternal health? And while you’re at it, what does the word “baska” mean?
Elizabeth, thank you so much for sharing your story. This kind of thing happens so often, unfortunately….if only more women could be helped before they make such a life changing decision. We just have to keep spreading the word, and showing these women how much we care.
I’m so thankful that someone was there for you!!
On a more personal note, I’ve had two friends who were strongly advised by their physicians to abort due to fetal abnormality.
I have a friend with Hodgkins Lymphoma, who was recommended to have a “theraputic abortion” while she is on Chemo, because apparently they have no studies to prove conclusively whether it has harmful effects on the baby.
Well, she said “no way!” and she is now 7 months pregnant with a perfectly healthy baby girl, and is looking forward to having her in her arms soon!