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,
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I always thought Baal was the god of fertility, and to honor him they would have huge public ogys...I could be wrong...
Opposition to abortion is not opposition to sex. But I do think this reply explains why support of abortion is so strong because it's seen as necessity for responsibility-free recreational sex, since they've still failed to find a 100% perfect way to keep fertilization from taking place. It's the same motivation for their argument that condoms are the best way to deal with AIDS and so on. It's all about preserving their ability to "eff" without feeling guilty about it or taking responsibility for any of the negative consequences.
I continue to pray ALL abortuaries go the same way!
It was Moloch...It was a large metal image of a cow in which a fire was lit at its belly, the children were sent through an opening in the image's mouth and the child would tumble down the "throat" and be roasted alive in the "belly". This was the God of fertility. It was one of the blasphemies that ancient Israel fell into and was condemned for!
Isn't interesting how, through abortion today, it is usually the firstborn that is still sacrificed to the god of this world (Satan)? The firstborn as well as all the "first-fruits" have always belonged to the true God and Satan tries to steal this as well.
You're welcome. It's good to know that we are winning!
**I wish we could get our murder shop closed here in Mobile.**
Stand outside and pray! Did you see the list above? Prayer shuts them down.
This abortion clinic was shut down in Springfield due to a new State law. Abortionist must have clinical privledges at a hospital within 30 miles of the site of the murders. Not one hospital in Springfield would allow clinical privledges to abortionist. Thus, the clinic closed. [ps. I know Rosa]
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