Aurora Abortion Clinic Opens -- Part Two of Two

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For the moment, secrecy and deception have prevailed in Aurora, Illinois. On Monday the city issued an occupancy permit that allowed Planned Parenthood’s gigantic new 22,000 square foot, $7.5 million abortion clinic to open the next day. Local pro-lifers vowed to fight on.

Aurora Mayor Tom Weisner held a press conference on Monday, saying, "As elected officials, we are sworn to uphold the law regardless of our personal emotional or even religious beliefs.” He added, “Based upon the opinions of these three attorneys, the city of Aurora has no legal basis to deny Planned Parenthood an occupancy certificate."

Weisner was referring,  among others, to Kane County State's Attorney John Barsanti who concluded that  “Planned Parenthood did not commit any crimes while gaining approval for its new Aurora facility under a subsidiary name [Gemini Office Development LLC],” according to the Naperville Sun.

Barsanti reviewed the work of two lawyers hired by the city to investigate the approval and permitting process. Both had concluded “Planned Parenthood misrepresented tenant information to city officials, but it was not enough to deny an occupancy permit, “according to the Sun. 

“Barsanti said his office has no jurisdiction over city ordinances, land use or zoning, and he offered no opinion on those matters,” the Sun reported.

Once a local newspaper revealed the deception, Planned Parenthood offered a three-fold explanation/justification for why the clinic needed to built in the first place and why it was done in a misleading fashion.

The area was “underserved”; abortions will constitute “only” 10% of its “services”; and (according to  Steve Trombley, CEO and president of Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area) “the deceptive tactics were necessary to keep abortion protesters from learning about the clinic and targeting contractors, a tactic that had been used elsewhere.”

Rubbing salt into the wounds of pro-lifers, Trombley boasted that the abortion clinic will "do more in one day to prevent abortions" than pro-lifers “will do in a lifetime of protesting." Based on his projection of seeing 25,000 patients, once the abortion clinic is up and running at full capacity, that apparently means 2,500 unborn babies will die in the clinic each and every year.

Part One