Look quick. The Aurora Planned Parenthood saga is the lead story on the Fox News Chicago site right now. Eric Scheidler has something important to say. Go watch the news clip.

You'll see in that clip PP CEO Steve Trombley has found another straw to grasp. Even though Gemini and PP deceived the City of Aurora about the intended occupant of its building, Steve says the City should have known by the looks of the plans.

FNC is also asking this poll question: "Would you want a Planned Parenthood clinic in your neighborhood?" Go vote. On right side of home page.

UPDATE, 9/18, 7:23a: Well, I told you to look quick. The Aurora PP saga is now rotating as top story (which is still good). It can be viewed here, where you can also still vote on the poll, which has been running 70-75% against PP. The story is actually very fair. I even think Trombley weakened PP's credibility even further via this story.

This one is easy but critical.

From the Aurora Beacon, July 29:

Trombley said those threats [of protests] won't affect progress on the $7.5 million project.... He said $5 million already has been raised for the project, with the remainder coming from donations as well.

"The more protesters out in front, the faster we'll probably raise it," he said.

Speaking was Steve Trombley, Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area's CEO.

There's also this in the Chicago Tribune, July 27....

A full page ad featuring 21 "religious leaders" called for a "Day of Prayer" yesterday in the Aurora Beacon, Chicago Tribune, and Daily Herald. The ad stated it was "Paid for by Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area."

So we had dueling clergy in the newspaper yesterday, because 121 pro-life clergy from churches in the Aurora Planned Parenthood area also took out a full page ad in the Aurora Beacon and Naperville Sun.

I scanned the entire ad in sections and pieced it together, but it's not clear. (Click to enlarge.)

So following is the enlarged message and enlarged list of signers. (Click both to enlarge.)....

This was just published by Time Magazine an hour ago:

In Illinois today, a federal judge is expected to hear an intriguing argument in the abortion debate. At issue: Is Aurora, Ill., a city of nearly 175,000 about an hour's drive west of Chicago, trying to stop Tuesday's scheduled opening of the nation's largest Planned Parenthood clinic because of political pressure from anti-abortion activists? Or was the clinic's true nature - that is, its Planned Parenthood genesis - not readily apparent to city officials when they originally approved permits for the building? Or is it a bit of both? The case is already one of the most heated in the nation's grassroots abortion wars, and protests in Aurora this past weekend drew hundreds of anti-abortion demonstrators....

(Continue reading story on page 2.)

UPDATE, 4p: On this point in the Time article, "The group [PP] says abortions accounted for 3% of its services nationally last year," here is this direct quote from PP Chicago CEO Steve Trombley, from the Aurora Beacon, July 29:

"There's a need for this service," Trombley said, citing Aurora's population boom and burgeoning populations in Kane and surrounding counties. "Ninety percent of medical services are for preventative gynecological services. Only 10 percent of what we do relates to abortion services."

1. Tiller faces criminal misdemeanor charges on 19 illegal late-term abortions committed in 2003 not signed off by an unaffiliated physician. For this Tiller could lose his license and spend a year in jail for each convicted count.

2. Tiller just lost his battle to block a grand jury from being convened to investigate illegal late-term abortions Tiller may have committed since 2003, with a petitioner request that Sedgwick County DA Nola Foulston and AG Paul Morrison, both with ties to Tiller, not be involved in this investigation.

3. KS legislators conducted a 2-day hearing earlier this month investigating Tiller's late-term abortion practices to consider finding and strengthening loopholes in current late-term abortion laws. As part of this, one of Tiller's patients, Michelle Arnesto-Berg, testifed that when he aborted her in May 2003 she signed no consent form, was asked for no medical information, and was never diagnosed with any condition that met the legal requirement of "substantial and irreversible impairment" for abortions after 22 weeks. Only recently Michelle learned Tiller charted her baby as nonviable, which was news to her. Hear Michelle's testimony here.

Here is the Los Angeles Times front page story, today. Tiller's quote at the very end of the story is most interesting....

[HT: Operation Rescue; photo courtesy of LAT]

This information comes from pro-life attorney Tom Brejcha, who just left the hearing:

U.S. District Judge Charles Norgle has denied Planned Parenthood's request for an order that Aurora allow it to open tomorrow.

There is a very short schedule for the next hearing. Each side has 24 hours to file papers to respond. They will be back in court Thursday morning. This hearing will include witnesses if appropriate if either side brings them.

U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall refused to take the case. She said this wasn't related to the Pro-Life Action League case currently before her. Turns out PP wanted its case to go before Kendall, which was likely a tip-off she may lean in favor of abortion.

This is great news.

UPDATE, 1:20p: Eric Scheidler just emailed this additional information on today's hearing, which he attended:

Planned Parenthood was asking Federal District Judge Charles Norgle to issue an injunction that would have required the City to let them open for business WITHOUT concluding the investigation into PP's dealings with the City.

Judge Charles Norgle listened to arguments from PP and the City for an hour, and decided a full hearing was required.

The hearing has been set for Thursday at 10 a.m. That means that Planned Parenthood will not open until Friday at the earliest.

One important point to keep in mind:

The question here is not whether PP can ever open. The question is whether their opening can be DELAYED while an investigation is concluded into the allegations raised into wether PP defrauded the City.

That question may be settled Thursday after a full hearing.

UPDATE, 1:47p: Here's the Chicago Tribune story on the hearing.

UPDATE, 7:43p: Here's a CBS 2 news t.v. report, which includes Eric Scheidler [HT: Paul W.]

FYI, I'll be on my friend Kevin McCullough's radio show on WMCA in New York sometime after 2:20p EST this afternoon, which can be heard live via the Internet if you don't live in the area.

We'll discuss the Aurora Planned Parenthood situation.

Kevin wrote a column on this yesterday, which was the most read on Townhall.com for the day.

Update, 12:40p: My segment will air at 3:20p and be available by podcast after 4p.

Here's another photo montage of Saturday's protest, formally called the Jericho March, at the Aurora Planned Parenthood abortion mill.

This little video has a 60s psychodelic edge to it with well done graphics work. It appears the "new media" role pro-lifers have had to assume, since MSM supports abortion, is growing not just to encompass journalism but also to bump up against liberal Hollywood with our own creative documentaries. Starting small, but who knows? www.fightingirishthomas.net made this one:

[HT: reader Mike]