Planned Parenthood Loses Court Case to Open Aurora "Abortion Fortress"

LifeSiteNews.com ^ | September 21, 2007 | Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

[monomaniac]

Planned Parenthood Loses Court Case to Open Aurora "Abortion Fortress"

Making mass appeal to supporters for financial help and volunteers to fight to open facility

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

AURORA, September 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A federal judge yesterday struck down a motion by Planned Parenthood to force the opening of their newly-built abortion clinic in Aurora, Illinois against the will of city officials.

The clinic, which was built under a building permit that concealed the name of Planned Parenthood from the city, has been prohibited from opening while officials investigate charges of fraud. Thousands of Aurora citizens have protested the opening, and the issue has attracted national attention.
 
"This decision today demonstrates the tremendous power of prayer," said Eric Scheidler of the Pro-Life Action League, which has led massive protests against the clinic. "The prayers of the faithful people who have been in front of this clinic night and day and the thousands who have been praying around the country, have been answered. We know this battle in Aurora is not over and we will continue to protest Planned Parenthood's deceptions. This delay will save the lives of innocent children."

LifeSiteNews asked Scheidler how long he expected to delay the clinic's opening. "At this point, I'm really leaving it up to God because I'm just blown away at what we've been able to accomplish here," he said. "I wouldn't put anything past Him. I think it's possible that we'll shut this down altogether. I'm not counting on anything, and I'm not going to stop fighting as hard as I can."

Scheidler states that he believes that that current legal victory could "last a week, and maybe for good", although he assumes Planned Parenthood will attempt to reverse it.

The ruling will allow officials to proceed with the investigation into Planned Parenthood's allegedly deceptive permit filing, which concealed the true identity of the facilty's occupants by using a front company, Gemini Office Development, and failing to identify the building as an abortion complex (it was called a "health center" on the application).  If it opens, the facility will be the largest Planned Parenthood abortion faciltiy in North America.  Aurora pro-lifers call the clinic the "Abortion Fortress".
 
In ruling against Planned Parenthood's motion to force the city of Aurora to grant them an operating permit, U.S. District Judge Charles Norgle stated that Planned Parenthood had not proven that the city of Aurora was treating them differently than it had treated other permit filers, but left open the possibility that they might submit such information in a future proceeding. "By no means is this case over. By no means,'' he said. 

According to a local television station, Planned Parenthood is already planning an amended filing in an attempt to reverse the ruling.  They are also making a mass appeal to their supporters for financial help and volunteers to aid in their fight to open the Aurora facility, stating in their appeal that "we are facing no less than the most emboldened protest by the most radical anti-choice people I've ever encountered".  Protests against the clinic have attracted up to 1,500 people at a time.

Read Previous LifeSiteNews.com Coverage:

See Pro-Life Action League's U-Tube video of Aug. 25 demonstration
http://www.prolifeaction.org/

Largest Abortion Center in the U.S. Refused Permission to Open http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/sep/07091709.html

Residents Say Planned Parenthood Lied on Giant Abortion Mill Application - City Investigates
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/aug/07082908.html

Largest Ever Planned Parenthood Abortion Mill Threatens to Open Near Chicago
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/aug/07082209.html

Chicago Planned Parenthood Faces Lawsuit Over Libelous Ad
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/sep/07091103.html

Chicago Pro-Lifers Launch Massive Effort to Stop New Abortion Clinic from Opening - 40 Day Vigil
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/aug/07081801.html

Residents Say Planned Parenthood Lied on Giant Abortion Mill Application - City Investigates
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/aug/07082908.html

[Dr. Sivana]

"we are facing no less than the most emboldened protest by the most radical anti-choice people I've ever encountered"

Do Planned Parenthood types ever get sick of the overheated rhetoric? Now we know why they spent 15 years trying to run the Pro-Life Action League out of money.

Joe Scheidler may be no youngster any more, but it looks like the next generation of Scheidlers is stepping up to the plate, and there are a lot of them! Can the Planned Parenthood types say the same?

[editor-surveyor]

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[oldbrowser]

"we are facing no less than the most emboldened protest by the most radical anti-choice people I've ever encountered".

The baby butchers like to use over hyped rhetoric, maybe we should do the same.

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[ModelBreaker]

It’s good that they feel they have to go around in disguise. Shame is an incredibly important part of what makes a culture viable.

[Lorianne]

What a ugly, souless building.

[MaxMax]

The Nazi’s tried to hide their death camps also.

[Joe10]

Planned Parenthood kills more americans every 3 days than the War in Iraq has killed in 5 years.

Every state should be working to stop the funding of Planned Parenthood. We are trying in Tennessee.

[Red6]

Yuck-

Every doctor, nurse, admin official, should be posted with a nice mug shot on the web. They should all be proud of how they make their “living.”

There are tens of thousands looking to adopt.

There is seldom any real medical reason for this.

Most states, counties, cities etc. have programs for unwanted children. You have safe haven laws and programs in place that allow a mother to drop off an unwanted child at most hospitals, anonymously. 47 states in the Union have safe haven laws on the books. A parent can give up their child on the spot at a police station, hospital, or firehouse. Where is the argument for abortion?

Why have abortions? Concealment of behavior-

Instead of standing up to ones actions and dealing with it, taking responsibility, these people “choose” to discard life into the medical trash bin rather than be seen with a big belly and known to have given up a kid for adoption. The moral of the story is simple, selfish, and evil. I can’t find any sympathy for the anyone involved with this except those few poor soles who later realize what they did and have to live with that disaster for eternity. Imagine what a weight to bear that must be!

[Red6]

That was supposed to be “Soul” in the second to last sentence.

[GLDNGUN]

Check out the fake name Planned Parenthood used to set up this abortuary...

Gemini Office Development

You think it's a coincidence or accident the initials spell G-O-D?

I sure don't. This was intended to be a slap in the face to pro-lifers. Glad to see they are ones getting slapped.

[Snapping Turtle]

That building looks like a crematorium!

[MHGinTN]

Ah, but you fail to realize that the democrat agenda has been to remove human-ness from these alive unborn so that the empowerment scheme of slaughtering on demand remains the empowerment methodology of the democrat party. The democrats long ago removed human nature from the alive unborn, with the purposed help of the media of course.

[DesScorp]

I think we may be winning the hearts on minds part of the abortion war...that has to come first before legal change does. God bless these people for fighting so hard.

[freekitty]

I didn’t even notice. How cruel and stupid can you be?

[cricket]

They are also making a mass appeal to their supporters for financial help and volunteers to aid in their fight to open the Aurora facility, stating in their appeal that "we stating in their appeal that "we are facing no less than the most emboldened protest by the most radical anti-choice people I've ever encountered".

They just need to call Soros; PP being one of his pet 'charities'.

What is even more 'embolding'; of course, is the Left's always euphemistic nomenclature, by which they attempt to hide their truth. PP is not in the business of 'choice'.

Well, for sure this is not over. . .but kudos to all those; who made PP's non-opening a success.

[cricket]

Shame is an incredibly important part of what makes a culture viable.

If they are hiding. . .it is not because they are ashamed. Guaranteed, Leftists do not experience shame. . .they are adaptive, however.

Liberalism is a slippery slope to cultural degradation. . .and we have only to look around to see how far/how fast we are sliding.

[cricket]

Every doctor, nurse, admin official, should be posted with a nice mug shot on the web. They should all be proud of how they make their “living.”

Yes.. .surely, the local Community was invited to come and tour the facility built to serve them. (sarc/off)

Perhaps, in the next round of Court visitations; a request could be made. . .