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Clinic is caught in the fog of abortion war (Abortion Clinic Closes)
St. Louis Today ^ | 10.27.05 | Jo Mannies

Posted on 10/28/2005 10:39:33 PM PDT by Coleus

SPRINGFIELD, MO.

When Springfield Healthcare Center mysteriously closed its doors, Rosina San Paolo praised the Lord.

"I danced. I thanked the Blessed Mother. I thanked Jesus," said San Paola, 82, who has spent the past 22 years protesting outside southwest Missouri's only abortion clinic.

But another woman left a starkly different message on the clinic's answering machine after hearing the news that, as of Oct. 19, the facility had been shuttered.

"As a former patient, I just wanted to express my gratitude to everyone who works there," said the woman, who did not leave her name. "You are all godsends for what you do there. . . . I am extremely disgusted by the Springfield community."

Such polarized perspectives on the clinic and the city that harbored it highlight the continued tensions in the region, the state and the nation more than 32 years after the Roe vs. Wade ruling by the Supreme Court in favor of legalized abortion. And that's despite the continued decline in the number of abortions, in Missouri and the country.

As both sides of the abortion issue point out, the dissent goes beyond the surgical procedure. It includes the dispute over differences between RU-486, a pill that causes abortions, and Plan B, the so-called "morning-after" pill that prevents pregnancy.

A companion debate, nationally and in Missouri, focuses on whether pharmacists should be required to stock or dispense Plan B, and if it should be available without a prescription.

There's also a growing argument over the influence of sex education in reproductive choices, and whether groups like Planned Parenthood, which support abortion rights, should be allowed to provide sex information to public schools, even if they ask for it.

The political stakes were underscored this week when Gov. Matt Blunt, who lives near the clinic,

(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: abortionclinic; abortionlist; abortionmill; abortuary
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1 posted on 10/28/2005 10:39:33 PM PDT by Coleus
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To: 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; annalex; ...


2 posted on 10/28/2005 10:39:45 PM PDT by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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To: Coleus
"As a former patient, I just wanted to express my gratitude to everyone who works there,"

More than likely a repeat customer.

3 posted on 10/28/2005 10:42:25 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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To: Coleus

Ridiculously euphemistic name for an abortion clinic alert! "Healthcare center" indeed.


4 posted on 10/28/2005 10:45:15 PM PDT by mjwise
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To: Coleus
despite the continued decline in the number of abortions, in Missouri and the country

40,000,000+ since June 1973 is more than enough. Illegal aliens stream into this county like water, but unborn potential citizens are left in the ashes. It gives the prayer "ashes to ashes, dust to dust" a bad name.

whether groups like Planned Parenthood, which support abortion rights, should be allowed to provide sex information to public schools

Not in my backyard. Never.

5 posted on 10/28/2005 10:48:12 PM PDT by gpapa (Boost FR Traffic! Make FR your home page!)
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To: Coleus

"You are all godsends for what you do there..."

Notice the euphemism for "what they do".

God never sends people to kill innocents.


6 posted on 10/28/2005 10:52:57 PM PDT by I still care (America is not the problem - it is the solution..)
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To: gpapa
40,000,000+ since June 1973 is more than enough.

They have decimated the African American Race to the point that they are start lag behind Hispanic and Asian populations in CA.

8 posted on 10/28/2005 11:08:49 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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To: Coleus
You are all godsends for what you do there...

Good grief.

What god? Moloch?

9 posted on 10/28/2005 11:15:20 PM PDT by Petronski (Cyborg is the greatest blessing I have ever known.)
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To: GSlob


"protesting hag"???????
What a classy way to honor those who fought the good fight.


10 posted on 10/28/2005 11:19:17 PM PDT by mother22wife21 ("Hold ma beer, while I get in this here handbasket")
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To: Petronski

I don't know... It was Moloch, though, to whom Canaanites sacrificed infant children, wasn't it?


11 posted on 10/28/2005 11:37:53 PM PDT by Irish Rose (Will work for chocolate.)
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To: Irish Rose

I think so. I'm going by memory, and my googling offered no help.


12 posted on 10/28/2005 11:48:11 PM PDT by Petronski (Cyborg is the greatest blessing I have ever known.)
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To: GSlob

You're an ass.


13 posted on 10/28/2005 11:49:06 PM PDT by Petronski (Cyborg is the greatest blessing I have ever known.)
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To: All
Meet GSlob (via the private mail he just sent me):

Maybe I am an ass, or maybe I am not: I happen to believe that other people effing is none of mine [or that 82 years old hag's, or yours, for that matter] effing business. Besides, speaking figuratively, why should one thrust oneself between other people's genitalia and play a prophylactics? It is an undignified role to play.

14 posted on 10/29/2005 12:25:42 AM PDT by Petronski (Cyborg is the greatest blessing I have ever known.)
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To: Coleus
"As a former patient, I just wanted to express my gratitude to everyone who works there," said the woman, who did not leave her name. "You are all godsends for what you do there. . . . I am extremely disgusted by the Springfield community."

If she is so supportive of the abortion clinic then why doesn't she leave her name? Could it be that her life now is not what would be viewed as "dreamery"? I suspect so.

15 posted on 10/29/2005 12:26:12 AM PDT by taxesareforever (Government is running amuck)
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To: Petronski

I think it was "Baal"


16 posted on 10/29/2005 12:45:34 AM PDT by boatbums (Isn't saying Mean People Suck...kinda mean?)
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To: I still care

When I get to heaven, what will I not hear the soul of an aborted infant (you know, the ones who are sucked out of the womb and fed through the industrial-strength garbage disposal) say?

"You are all godsends for what you do there..."

Of course this "client" is so proud of her patronage that she declines to leave her name.


17 posted on 10/29/2005 1:14:20 AM PDT by turnrightnow (bink's mom)
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To: Irish Rose

Huge metal man with bull head, fire between the legs baby placed in red hot arms. You nailed it


18 posted on 10/29/2005 1:42:26 AM PDT by kublia khan (Absolute war brings total victory)
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http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=718&letter=M

Burning was an important feature of the rite.

http://www.deliriumsrealm.com/delirium/mythology/moloch.asp

Dictionnaire Infernal - Collin de Plancy (1863) (paraphrased)

The priests would then beat loudly on drums & other objects so that the cries would not be heard.
19 posted on 10/29/2005 2:25:23 AM PDT by SaltyJoe (A mother's sorrowful heart and personal sacrifice redeems her lost child's soul.)
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20 posted on 10/29/2005 2:32:35 AM PDT by SaltyJoe (A mother's sorrowful heart and personal sacrifice redeems her lost child's soul.)
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