Aurora, Illinois — Operation Rescue announces that it is joining forces with Joe Scheidler and the Pro-Life Action League, to urge pro-lifers from around the nation to help prevent an “abortion fortress” from opening in the Chicago suburb of Aurora.
It was only recently learned that Planned Parenthood plans to open the 22,000 square foot abortion clinic after construction on the project was nearly completed. The structure was built under the name “Gemini Medical Office” to hide the true nature of the business from the public. Not even the City of Aurora or the contractors who worked on the building actually knew that it was a Planned Parenthood abortion mill.
Since the discovery, pro-lifers have held prayer vigils and protests with crowds of up to 400 people, including national pro-life leaders, who are concerned about the monolithic abortion business coming into the suburban community. They have launched a “40 Days For Life” project that includes on site prayer and fasting.
A coalition of pro-life groups are also putting action with prayer and will be asking the city council to deny an occupancy permit to Planned Parenthood.
“The community of Aurora had nothing to say about whether or not they wanted this abortion mill in their community because of the deceptive tactics employed by Planned Parenthood,” said Cheryl Sullenger, spokesperson for Operation Rescue. “It says a lot about a business that has to lie to get into a community. They obviously knew that they would not be welcomed. Now the community is rising up to stop them, and we need to give these people all the support we can.”
Operation Rescue is urging pro-lifers to e-mail the mayor and city council members and ask that they deny an occupancy permit to Planned Parenthood because of the negative impact the abortion and sex business will have on the community.
What will PP do NEXT to deceive the public?
The lengths they go to, to perpetuate their lies and defy laws is unbelievable.
How did this happen?????
Where does Planned Parenthood get all their money to construct such a huge building dedicated to killing babies?
Our pastor, Fr. Charles Fanelli with the 5 priests who reside at St. Thomas More Rectory and and all our nuns together with all of the parishioners totally oppose the opening of an abortion mill in Aurora.
In answer to Alayna, Planned Parenthood makes VERY good money from abortions and our tax dollars are also supporting this travesty. Pray, Pray, Pray!!
Kathleen & Thomas More Parishioners–
As a pro-life editorial cartoonist, I’d like to offer you use of my Planned Parent Hood cartoons for use in your campaign against this new death camp in your backyard. Contact cumulus@eaglecom.net
Pax et bonum!
OR, could you please post a specific contact info for the Aurora mayor and aldermen? I cannot seem to get the link provided to work, and would like to spread the word…
For Alayna, Sue Crumpton, and anyone else interested, The new Aurora death camp is awfully upscale for a “non-profit organization”, isn’t it!
Outside, it looks more like a fortress than a health clinic…more like a death camp, with walls so high you can’t see over them, so low…you get the idea, makes you wonder what new atrocities they may plan to commit behind them. Definitely not the transparency of innocence! Given PP’s history of lying about nearly everything, it’s not surprising that noone knew what this facility was intended to be until it stood as a fait accompli…sort of reminds one of a certain generation of Jews unwittingly (well, to a point) digging trenches for their own corpses to be thrown into…
In addition to bloodmoney from abortion “services” (including surgical, chemical and abortifacient birth control) and our hard earned tax dollars, Planned Parenthood also gets huge corporate donations from companies, organizations, and individuals who either have bought into the lie that PP is a “non-profit health care organization” (a mega-million dollar a year outfit can hardly be called non-profit, and as for health care, they are systematically seeking to replace real health care with murder and disease on demand), or are in knowing sympathy with PP’s anti-Christian, anti-family, anti-woman, anti-child, racist, population control philosophy and agenda. For further information on these corporations, ties, etc., please check out fightpp.org, STOPP international at all.org, and eugenics-watch.com.
gwhiz! I couldn’t have said it better myself. My daughter and I go from 10am-12pm on Tuesdays and pray that this “non-profit” facility goes down like the walls of Jericho
I belong to my church’s prayer chain via email and I keep getting all these emails that want to stop the opening of the new clinic in Aurora. However, I must say that I fully support the opening of it and I wish those that are pro-life would pipe down. There may be ethical issues at hand and I fully understand that, however, they need to think about the realistic aspect of women bringing unwanted children into this world.
I would rather see a knowledgeble woman make the choice to terminate a pregnancy rather than having a child and mistreating it, abusing it, losing it to the state, or worse. As for adoption, there’s enough homeless children out in the world why do we need any more and being a single parent myself, of one child, I can honestly say that I could not take care of another one at this current time and I would never be able to go through a full pregnancy to then hand a child over and never see it again. That would be the most horrible thing to do to a child.
I was brought up in a catholic family to be pro-life, but through the years, I’ve grown my own ideas and opinions and I look at the world with a realistic eye and not so much a moral one. I don’t usually voice my opinions about matters like this because I understand that everyone has the right to their opinions, however I’m getting tired of the pro-life activists shoving their beliefs down the throats of others. I fully support the clinic and I hope to see it do some good for this city that is very quickly becoming over populated.
I guess there is a difference in tolerance related to maiming and killing dogs as compared to children. For some reason, our society looks at children as an unwanted burden which creates more problems than they are worth. How sad. To anyone who says they “support abortion,” I question their “knowledge” of the actual facts of how abortions are done and if they ARE EDUCATED, I question their relationship to a God who GIVES LIFE and who TREASURES CHILDREN and has definitely stated in the Bible where and how they rate with him! Mark 9:42 says, ” And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were CAST INTO THE SEA! I say anyone who kills or tortures a baby or child through abortion or molestation should look at this text and see where Jesus would have YOU be! Any adult who would harm a baby needs to go pick out his personal millstone and jump into the water. I won’t miss him, will you?
This pro-death post is difficult to believe. Are you serious? It is amazing that you would discard your greatest inheritance: the Catholic faith.
You need a long talk with a priest and a thorough reflection upon your conscience. This is what the Sacrament of Reconciliation is for. Quite clearly, you’ve long reconciled yourself to the world; for the sake of your soul, get “realistic” (to use your expression) and reconcile yourself to Christ.
One cannot be both “Pro-Choice” and Christian. Those who think so either misunderstand Christ or are deceiving themselves.
I support
I’ll pray for you.
The “Heart of My Savior” is compassionate, loving, a friend and Father to all. He gave us life and ther is a “sanctity” to life which we are to respect. My Father does not condone the killing of any of His creation. In the beginning in the Garden of Eden, there was no killing of any kind. In Genesis, it tells of how God gave Adam and Eve a garden full of fruits, nuts, and vegetables to eat. There was no instructions to eat the flesh of animals. Only after sin entered the picture did man become a “killer,” and now he extends it to every aspect of life. It is man who kills and destroys through the manipulative tools of Satin. Although the world is jaded by sin, we do not have to continue in Satin’s belief system that we must be partakers of his iniquity, You speak of realism. Yes, the world is full of “realism,” which it insists we must accept. Because of realism, Satin has convinced many that abortion must be accepted as an alternative option to women because society says there are too many people and children are not an asset. Yes, if we are truly realistic about this life, we would despair, because our days are numbered and our future is blighted on this earth! Our “only hope” is in “Our Lord,” as He has told us He is “preparing a place for us of eternal rest, where there will be no more tears.” That is my reality. In the “meantime,” I choose to be a caretaker of His Creatures, and try to live by Emily Dickinson” poem, “If I can stop one heart from breaking, or ease one pain, or help one fainting robin into his nest again, I shall not live in vain!” This world is full of the “reality” of pain and heartbreak resulting from the attitude that we can’t do anything about the results of sin. As one of God’s children, it is my job to alleviate the suffering of others, not to add to it! If I hear a child crying and ignore those cries, God holds me accountable. The Bible clearly states that we must not ignore the suffering of our fellowman. This is our duty. Take one moment and think of what a baby suffers during an abortion. This in itself should soften your hardened heart. We must “feel” the pain of others. This old world and its sin hurts the heart of my Father. His tears should also touch our hearts. He never “intended” for man to follow this path of destruction. When the results of sin have unfolded, He will return. He takes no “hostages.” He opens the door. Our choice is before us, either Heaven or Hell. Sin has no “place” in Heaven: we can’t take it with us. Our job is to get it out of our own hearts and ask God to fill us with His love. I wouldn”t want to “take a chance and be left behind.”ONE REALITY I know, IN HEAVEN, THERE WILL BE NO PLACE FOR ABORTIONISTS OR MURDERERS OF ANY KIND!
I Support Says,
You need to get a copy of Dr. George Grant’s “Grand Illusions”, the legacy of PP. There’s a lot at stake here.
I would concur with the others, that you cannot be pro-choice and a Christian. It’s impossible.
I can’t believe you actually think it would be better to rip a baby limb to limb, then to place it in a loving Christian home. This mindset is the epitome of selfishness.
You need a good dose of the fear of the Lord ( see Ps 1).
To “I support’: About 7 years ago my cousin Betty Jean received a mysterious phone call late one night from a man who turned out to be her 43 year old nephew. Her sister, Frannie had been taken to a Lutheran Home in Philadelphia by my aunt and cousin Betty J., to deliver this nephew and give him up for adoption. The child was never seen again by my cousins nor my aunt. Ten to fifteen years after the birth of the child, my cousin Frannie, died in her thirties. Her death was a sad one, from alcohol related complications. The pregnancy was hidden from everyone in our family and only my cousin Betty Jean, my aunt (also deceased now) knew until seven years ago when the “baby” called.
This fine young man was adopted by a wonderful couple in Ohio who had also adopted a baby girl. He had his own family and was soon to retire from the military after twenty five years of service. He has become a treasured part of our family with regular calls, communication and visits. Needless to say, our whole family was quite surprised but thrilled to have such a happy ending to a long kept secret.
As the youngest cousin in the family, I also found myself unmarried and pregnant, 1 1/2 years out of college and contemplating abortion back in 1981. I called an abortion clinic in NJ and there were few questions asked from those at the clinic. They quickly said for me to come in tomorrow, it would be”$250 cash”, a simple procedure, maybe a little bleeding afterwards, but that would be all. I hung up the phone and cried. I told the father a man I had been dating a short time. Fortunately he had been reading alot at the time about abortion and how devastating the emotional afermath could be to women. He gave me a book to read by a man who used to counsel women to have abortions. I read it cover to cover, as this kind of information was rare at the time. We eneded up marriying and raised my beautiful son Adam. He is now 25 years old, married himself and living in California. I can’t imagine how many lives would be different without his loving and compassionate presence in this world.
I have great respect for you for raising your child alone “I support”. I am not telling you these stories to judge you or to make you wrong. But there are victories of life out there, and I wanted to share mine God Bless you and your child and family.
Thank you for sharing this story. We need more testimonies like this. For myself, the idea of abortion just makes me so angry that I can only think of “defense” of the unborn. We need some writers to tell about their experience with having their babies after contemplating abortion and some happy results. I think we concentrate too much on the negative side, which is all we see! This would also give us more hope. There are people out there who “choose life in spite of the adversities. How often do we praise a mother for having her child? Most people are quick to judge someone who has a child out of wedlock or has more than 2 children. We need to change our outlook on children in general. It is not a popular decision to have a big family today. We have been indoctrinated into the 2 children per family system. When will our society see children as an asset and not a burden and value our children as gifts of God. Until that attitude changes, we will have abortion.
Alayna,
I believe society will change their attitude towards children, when the church does. Scripture states, that judgment must first begin at the house of God.
How many of us, who have claimed to know the Lord, will use the same excuses for not bearing children as the world does, i.e. work, school, money etc. Christians want to control their destinies and their childbearing. In essence, we tell the Lord we want all your blessings for following You; except the blessings of children.
As I know first hand, it’s hypocritical to tell a girl not to abort her child, and trust God, when you haven’t.
Open the eyes of your people O’ God.
REALITY: The hours spent protesting and blocking access to services would better be spent nurturing, teaching, reading to and loving the many unwanted children already in our communities.
Funny how if you protest a clinic and prevent a women from entering that could lead to an unwanted pregnancy and abortion…if she goes in she learns and gets the health education and contraception that she needs to get pregnant when she and her partner want to and have a wanted child.
Spend you time on the world we already have – no one wants to end a pregnancy – so help women and families prevent unwanted pregnancies! Use your energy to help the unwanted children among us. – be a mentor, volunteer, become a foster parent – act for today.
Interesting. Abortion is legal, and Planned Parenthood is a known corporation, but all the documents regarding this building were filed under a pseudonymous company. That’s just plain deceptive — think how outraged you’d be if a building were built as an office building but then they plunked a cross on top and announced that it would be a church.
It sounds to me like PP knew that they would encounter controversy and hoped to end-run the city council of Aurora and the citizens of the surrounding neighborhood.
By the way, I was at the protest Saturday August 25. Hundreds of anti-abortion protestors (somebody said over 1000, I have no way of verifying that, I know they were always out of signs and they said they had brought 250), and only a handful of pro-abortion protestors that didn’t even stay the entire time (again, anecdotal count of 17). Sounds to me like the area does not want an abortion clinic, otherwise there would have been more equal numbers of protestors.
And to the point that Reality makes: Most abortion clinics do NOT give any sort of pregnancy or contraception counseling. They’re there for one thing: killing babies to terminate pregnancies. “Choice” is an illusion at most abortion clinics; your choice is to have an abortion or not. And there are documented cases (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXMkLFpeGQQ) where PP clinics have refused information from would-be clients if they suspect a statutory rape has occurred. The abortion clinics don’t care about preventing pregnancy — that would cut down on their profits.
REALITY: The unborn ARE the most unwanted children already in our communities. Once a child is conceived (this occurs at fertilization), (s)he is already in our community. Knowledgeable people of conscience do not protest or block access to real services, but if someone hired a contract killer to rip you limb from limb, or kill you in some other way, would you want no one to protest, or seek to block the killer’s access to you? I don’t think so! You are only saying that your life is more valuable than the many lives endangered by the childkillers, although you have no idea of what abilities these yet unborn neighbors of yours have. Let them be found judicially guilty of a legitimate capital offense (if you think there are any), then discuss whether or not to execute them. But not before.
The only world we will ever have will be much better off if people, especially women, are not sucked into artificial birth control or its fallback lynchpin, induced abortion. In 1920 Sanger publicly stated that “birth control is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit [and] of preventing the birth of defectives.” Artificial birth control does not prevent unwanted children, it creates them as grist for the death mills by ensuring that their parents, unmarried ones especially, stay sexually active and do not expect, therefore do not prepare for, children; it is intended to ensure that any children conceived in spite of it are UNWANTED by their parents, just as they are unwanted by the population control freaks who want them dead. It is this false sense of immunity (as though pregnancy were a disease, rather than the normal fruit of a healthy reproductive system functioning as designed) that feeds the death camps a steady stream of innocent blood. defectives.”
Your request is so typical of the flawed “quality of life” philosophy, which puts the concerns of the less vulnerable ahead of those of the most. This same ideology fanned the flames of the crematoriums of the Third Reich (have you ever seen the piles of shoes, clothing, glasses, and other booty taken from the victims of that holocaust? They even had people working full time pulling gold out of their teeth…to improve the quality of life of Germans. Many of those spoils were never even distributed to anyone. ) This “quality” vs “sanctity” of life is a cruelly false dichotomy; in reality, the societies do best who see life, in this regard, as a tree of which sanctity is the root and quality is the fruit. If you separate the tree from the roots, of course it doesn’t produce much fruit for long.
Anyone really concerned for the children already born will be fighting abortion as much as they can. Child abuse has increased over 1,000% since Roe v. Wade, despite the pro-abort lies that abortion on demand would eliminate unwanted children, and much of this can be attributed to Roe’s violation and erosion of the taboo essential to a civilized society against hurting those smaller and more defenseless. Actually, many unplanned pregnancies become very welcome children, if the mother does not get poisoned by PP’s antichild hate propaganda.
Oh, and speaking of wanted children, PP, in a 1963 pamphlet had this to say:
“An abortion kills the life of a baby after it has begun. It is dangerous to your life and health. It may make you sterile, so that when you want a child you cannot have it…”
This is still true, and they well know it, but no one will hear it from them now since abortion has become legal (but not safe), and so very profitable for them. The only chance a woman is likely to have of hearing this warning is from those of us whom you would silence by conveniently, and hypocritically, deploying us elsewhere. Kind of makes a cruel joke of connecting birth control, abortion, and “reproductive freedom.”, but that was always a huge crock from the first. It was never about a woman’s right to choose, but a doctor’s “right” to murder with impunity…Can you say Mengele?
To I support,
If you think your city is quickly becoming too crowded, why can’t you be gracious enough to leave instead of calling for the mass slaughter of innocent children? Talk about “shoving [one’s] opinions down the throats of others”! Murder is the ultimate imposition of the perpetrator’s views upon her/his victim(s).
As for adoption, there are presently several million couples willing, wanting, and able to care for the children you call “unwanted” in order to try to justify your acquiescence to Planned Parenthood’s bloody philosophy the agenda it entails. You say that giving a child whose natural parents can or will not care for him/her a home and a future by placing that child with adoptive parents is “the most horrible thing to do to a child”. What a crock. Have you asked any adopted individuals if they would like to be dismembered, pickled to death, beheaded, or any of the other usual methods of torturing unborn children to death? If you do (it is clear that you haven’t), you won’t find them eager to avail themselves of your offered “services”. Adoption is an adjustment for both mother and child, to be sure; there is a natural separation grief that must be worked through; but it is not exacerbated by the bloodguilt of abortion. It is also considerably mitigated by the replacement of that bloodguilt with the knowledge of the birth mother, that, in giving her child the best chance at nurture and protection she could, she did not violate or belie her own maternal instincts. It can be further lessened by the fact that there are such things as open adoption. This mentality that cries out to kill the child rather than place him/her for adoption is so reminiscent of the cruel insanity of “I’d rather see you dead little girl than to be with another man”, of an weak-egoed, narcissistic, abusively jealous man who would rather kill his “property” than let her go to someone who could really love her. Any normal woman would prefer to be released from his thralldom than killed, as any unborn child prefers to be born and place for adoption than tortured to death. If you find yourself pregnant before you feel you are in a position to care for a second child, keep this in mind; the life you save may well be your own.
Knowledgeable women also see through your “terminate the pregnancy” vs. “abuse” crap. Why is it that you must needs resort to misusing the phrase “terminate a pregnancy” as a euphemism for “butchering a baby to death”, which is what an abortion actually is. There is a natural way to terminate a pregnancy without abusing, endangering, or mistreating the baby (OR THE MOTHER), and that is to give birth. But of course, once you replace euphemism with reality, the natural method of pregnancy termination (as reality, not euphemism) is much more desirable…and Planned Parenthood’s bank account just will not have THAT! They prefer murdered children and exploited women to honest medical work.
As per the Christian faith, I am personally a Protestant and have a number of theological differences with Roman Catholicism; but your pitting the “realistic” view of the world vs. a “moral” one reminds me of a truly great (and greatly true!) line from a Broadway musical which went, “Is not the greatest madness of all to see life as it is and not as it ought to be?” Certainly, seeing life only as it is will breed despair; seeing life as it ought to be can light a flame of hope and betterment amid what is…for all concerned who want hope and real betterment. But those ends are always served when death camps are defeated, not when they thrive. You do not create a civilized, humane, just, ultimately free society by permitting, much less encouraging, the strong to prey upon the relatively weak with impunity, but by encouraging the strong to use their relative advantages to protect, help, and empower those less fortunate (mentally, physically, financially, etc.) than themselves.
Funny how those who want us to “get real” reject reality itself.
The reality that life begins at conception; that those in the womb are part of the community; that contraception IS THE GENESIS of abortion… and often abortion itself; that life isn’t disposable; the lie that others are of value only to the extent that they prove useful.
Get real yourself. Stop putting yourself before others. Start coming LAST! That’s real; that’s God… and so utterly pro-life.
My cousin had an abortion in the late 80′s. She never recovered from the emotional pain and guilt. So there were two lives destroyed. One little innocent baby, who never had her right to shed a tear. And another girl, who will cry forever. Protect both lives. I think sidewalk counseling is wonderful.
I’ve been praying at the new abortion facility. I’ve fielded questions of what about the other services PP offers besides abortion. PP offers nothing but destruction and discord. What the world needs is a rebirth of chastity, and education in Natural Family Planning (NFP) for those (married) couples who have a serious reason to postpone pregnancy. Young people are hungry for this information, but the media/government/schools refuse to feed them anything but garbage. They need to know there are alternatives. They need to hear the Gospel of Life. If we don’t speak, who will?
For more information on Natural Family Planning–100% safe, over 99% effective, life affirming and marriage building–contact the Couple to Couple League.
“Woman’s rights”, “Pro-choice”…. Doesn’t it seem odd that the baby or fetus as it is so called could very well be a female? What rights does she have????
This is a moral decision, plain and simple! Everyone should have some kind of morals, we are born with a conscience.. even if you do not fear God, you know right from wrong!
How in God’s name could this even remotely be considered right? Or is that it? No consideration for God at all? Even then, back to God’s gift of conscience, we all have it… let the rest of us please pray that if at least one of these girls be saved from this life long guilt of killing their baby. I have faith that God will take care of these babies, but with each one killed, it leaves behind a tortured living soul.