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A Florida abortion clinic braces for a Southern surge
Tampa Bay Times ^ | AUG 1, 2019 | Claire McNeill

Posted on 08/04/2019 9:21:25 AM PDT by Morgana

JACKSONVILLE — Across from a Popeyes on the crowded, flat University Boulevard, a half-dozen protesters in suspenders and straw hats cluster by a bus stop.

They clutch rosaries and tilt posters toward drivers headed for the powder blue building with tinted windows.

We are praying for you.

Pregnant? Let us help you.

The parking lot at A Woman’s Choice of Jacksonville is private, set back, removed from the whoosh of passing cars and the evangelism of strangers.

Still, sometimes women walk up the steps crying about the pictures of fetuses.

Six days a week, they enter the quiet cool of the one-story clinic and stoically fill out forms, if they haven’t already, noting birthdates and last periods. They sink into homey couches in the waiting room, next to boyfriends and aunts and best friends, here from one-night motels or just down the road. A tropical Glade plug-in makes the pale pink room smell like Hawaiian Punch. A TV plays Family Feud, or maybe The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Coffee is free. Abortion is a choice, explained by videos on an iPad.

A framed motto hangs by the door. “At this clinic we do sacred work that honors women and the circle of life and death.”

As patients walk beyond the front desk, a banner reassures: Good women have abortions.

It’s late one June morning, before the doctor arrives and patients with 12:30 p.m. appointments start filling the lot. A staffer sets out menstrual pads in the Maya Angelou operating room, then wheels a cart of sterilized speculums down the hallway, toward the room named for Wonder Woman.

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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: abortion; abortionclinic; florida; georgia; prolife; surge

1 posted on 08/04/2019 9:21:25 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Abortion is murder ….


2 posted on 08/04/2019 9:27:05 AM PDT by Ken522
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To: Morgana

Seriously, across from Popeye’s.
I wonder who goes to this clinic...


3 posted on 08/04/2019 9:30:30 AM PDT by EEGator
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“Seriously, across from Popeye’s.
I wonder who goes to this clinic...”

We know where, what neighborhood they put abortion clinics/Planned Parenthoods in are you really surprised?

The author of this article was probably paid to shout out Popeye’s not thinking that that is serious bad publicity.


4 posted on 08/04/2019 9:35:56 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

I’m not too surprised, but they might have well just said Blacks.

I lived in Jax for the better part of a decade. (Orange Park)


5 posted on 08/04/2019 9:44:18 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator
As patients walk beyond the front desk, a banner reassures: Good women have abortions.

What they mean:

As patients walk beyond the front desk, a banner reassures: Good negroes have abortions. Every time they get pregnant.

6 posted on 08/04/2019 9:49:42 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Morgana

>>As patients walk beyond the front desk, a banner reassures: Good women have abortions.<<

No they don’t. Evil women kill their babies.


7 posted on 08/04/2019 9:51:19 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (As always IMHO)
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To: Morgana

Free coffee? Free parking? Let’s do it!


8 posted on 08/04/2019 9:54:57 AM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Morgana

the comments on that newspaper site are horrible. Christians condemn murder, in all its form, psychotic gunmen, whackos with knives, or idiots running over people with a car. And yes, we are called to defend the defenseless, and unborn babies are the most defenseless.


9 posted on 08/04/2019 9:58:09 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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To: Morgana
good women have abortions?

Nothing biased or subtle here.

10 posted on 08/04/2019 10:36:27 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: Morgana

” Across from a Popeyes” “the whoosh of passing cars” “tropical Glade plug-in”. Did the author of that actually get paid for vomiting that drivel?

Here’s my proposal. Eliminate abortion clinics. Allow mothers to drown or strangle their newborns. That way they would have to face the actuality of what they are doing: killing their baby. Killing their baby by proxy is not the same. The mother doesn’t hear the baby cry before it’s killed. She pays someone, gets some sweet talk, and the baby is gone. No blood (that she can see), no dismemberment (until later), no environmentally unfriendly plastic bags.

With my proposal, the mother would be well aware of what she’s doing. I’m betting the number of babies killed would drop dramatically.


11 posted on 08/04/2019 10:45:35 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: freedumb2003
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.

“At this clinic we do sacred work that honors women and the circle of life and death.”


12 posted on 08/04/2019 11:55:56 AM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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To: definitelynotaliberal
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.

“At this clinic we do sacred work that honors women and the circle of life and death.”

A lot of naive people are going to just assume that "sacred" means sacred to God, not the alternative. These "clinics" might be getting closer to dropping the mask completely, but they are not there yet.

13 posted on 08/04/2019 12:23:54 PM PDT by niteowl77
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To: definitelynotaliberal

>>“At this clinic we do sacred work that honors women and the circle of life and death.” <<

I missed that. That statement is a PERVERSION of “the circle of life.”

I noted comments are closed for that article. The evil spreads there as well.


14 posted on 08/04/2019 12:47:35 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (As always IMHO)
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To: Morgana

What a laugh if that surge doesn’t happen.


15 posted on 08/04/2019 1:25:14 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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