Posted on 10/26/2004 2:18:04 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback
Since we can't post stuff from the Rockford Register-Star (and none of the local TV stations have a story on it) I figure I'd pass the info on.
Richard Ragsdale worked at the Northern Illinois Women's Center in Rockford for 31 years, hanging his shingle out in April, 1973, not long after the Roe vs. Wade decision. He was the region's only abortion provider. He was 69 years old and died after a short illness, which I've been told was pancreatic cancer.
Recently the clinic had gone to being open two days a week. Since Ragsdale's hospitalization, that has been reduced to one day. The Register-Star reports that the clinic will stay open with another doctor performing the abortions, and a local protestor tells me they've seen a new face showing up down there one day a week. Our bet is that they're having to bring someone in from Chicago.
I'd like to echo the words of another local protestor, Kevin Rilott, who said, "I pray that God has mercy on him like I pray he has mercy on all of us." But I will also say that the Register-Star article calls Ragsdale a frequent church-goer, and I shudder that any "church" would have a man elbow-deep in the blood of children.
The Register-star article is here. Be advised this article is subject to a PROJECTILE-VOMITING-BARF-ALERT.
The unborn babies in Rockford, IL are CELEBRATING!!!
Well, I'm sure he will be judged by Him accordingly...
The unborn babies in Rockford, IL are CELEBRATING!!!
Pancreatic cancer is said to painful.
I hope it was.
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If only John Edwards could have arrived before this man's untimely death, this tragedy might have been averted.
Has anyone ever survived PANCREATIC cancer?
Tossing their camouflage booties in the air!
not celebrating as much as confronting the murderer with his crimes as he temporarily joins their ranks prior to his trip to his eternal reward...
Unless he had a radical change of heart on his deathbed, he's realizing how much fun having pancreatic cancer was compared to what he's going through now.
What a shame. Cut out his lungs and eyes and put them on display in the reception area of his office, please.
But there will be others to replace him. Isn't Rockford the home of the popular old liberal presidential candidate John Anderson too?
And there shall be weeping and gnashing of the teeth, and the worm dieth not.
Good! The sob is in Hell where he deserves to be.
31 years of Bloodshed an eternity of physical torment eternal punishment and hopeless misery.
Sadder still, he could have been a Methodist, a Presbyterian, a member of the Church of Christ. Such fine names, historically, BUT....
Dan
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