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.
Praise! I'm confident that the Lord will deal with this man accordingly. Perhaps the "doctor" will spend eternity having his brains sucked out with a vacuum cleaner.
Chronicles magazine is reprising an article they had on this fine fellow in September. He operated his abortuary in an abandoned school.
http://chroniclesmagazine.org/Chronicles/September2004/0904Rockford.html
I hope it wasn't too painless.
Hmmmn.
Can his Planned Parentherd lawyers save him NOW?
How many millions did he earn since 73?
Eternal Vacuum Cleaner - Brain Suction Torment BTTT
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<<<
I'm thinking that the agony and pain of cancer was only a preview of the coming attraction.
Enjoy the show "doctor".
NO..it's an automatic death sentence.
Wow. Such compassion on display here.
Maybe I am wrong, but I was led to believe that joy over the death of others was an unChristian sort of thing...
Oh, well.
I am not going to revel in his death. Rather, think about how many lives he could have saved, rather than ended, during the 31 years he killed humans rather than healed them.
Huh?
I bet it is HOT where he is now.
I bet it is HOT where he is now.
Read that article. The details about harassment and derision being poured on protestors are accurate. This man was not a misguided Christian who disagreed with pro-lifers, he was a one-man hate squad.
Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment.
Hebrews 9:27
Mark 9:42
Just because one goes to church doesn't mean you are good - just look at the National Council of Churches! If anyone is going to burn in Hell...
BTW, I meant "read that article" as in "I read that" rather than "you should read that."
You would have been wrong.
I agree.......... and I am not the Judge. That job is for someone much more aware than I.
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