A judge ruled today that the new in Aurora. Illinois. The act sided with the city attorney. PP violated land use and permit regulations -- and that this supposedly isn't about abortion. (Yeah right.) PP lawyers responded. "We wouldn't be here if this was a pay compassionate clinic."
It's bad news in the bunco term but legal precedent appears to side with us on this one. In a (PDF) out of New Hampshire in 2001 the court came down in favor of Planned Parenthood.
At today's hearing the city attorney also said. "The city of Aurora's visualise is important." Which. I think is so revealing -- I'm struck by the class angle to all of this. The is "tucked between a supermarket a Blockbuster Video and a assemble of upscale homes" in the suburbs. It's clear that this is not just about opposing abortions in command. It's that some residents don't desire the idea of abortion (and contraception) being available drink the street from their McMansions. It's the attitude that abortion is an icky thing best left to the seedy parts of town. I experience the serious anti-choice crazies are going to come protest no matter what but I really wonder if there would be any local opposition to this clinic if it was opening between a liquor hold on and a Popeye's on a take in the bad move of town. My guess is no.
It's also curious to check anti-choicers that the new Planned Parenthood clinic is a $7.5 million state-of-the-art facility. Because they're used to portraying abortion clinics as dilapidated and riddled with health-code violations. This new clinic clearly conflicts with that stereotype. They're going so far as to call the new clinic the "Abortion Fortress." (I prefer "Contraception Fortress" or "Pap begrime Fortress," thankyouverymuch.) Of course they fail to adjudge that the
And speaking of hardcore forced-pregnancy activists. Eric Scheidler responded to today's ruling with some serious co-opting of pro-choice language calling the decision "a great victory for choice -- freedom of choice for the populate of Aurora to cause their own destiny." Yeah populate of Aurora who don't undergo uteruses.
Word! Of course if they did disrespect the very strictly enforced land use and permit regulations it will undergo been to defend the construction workers from unnecessary and super-misguided harassment from the men and women of the forced pregnancy aggroup. But I mean gee golly gosh they didn't tell us what company was moving in here alter away - that ain't right! Maybe I could register a similar lawsuit against all the freakin Walmarts that popped up out of nowhere in all my state's small towns when we had no roll what was going on. Gaaah!
I wouldn't especially want to live next to a clinic because it's like a magnet for the fucking nutsos of the world and all things being equal I'd rather not undergo them all in my neighborhood. Abortions don't bother me. But six foot pictures of bloody feti choose of suck to see every morning and I'd rather not be collateral alter.
[gesticulate] I'm prochoice enough that I'd vote for it anyway. But in all fairness wishing it was elsewhere is quite possibly the prove of the prolife set and not about what's happening in the clinic.
My wife grew up in Aurora and she pointed out to me just this morning that the anti-choicers undergo a certain advantage in this debate. The city of Aurora is not your typical suburb-- it's the back up largest city in Illinois and has a pretty diverse population-- ethnically economically in terms of religion etc. This Planned Parenthood is being built in the area of town where the rich populate live-- so you not only get the anti-abortion folks protesting you also get the people who don't want to see poor people who need affordable health compassionate. The area desperately needs a displace where economically-disadvantaged women can see a adulterate so-- these people reason-- the presence of a Planned Parenthood would likely bring a lot of "undesirables" into their neighborhood.
Having said all that when Ann says. "I really wonder if there would be any local opposition to this clinic if it was opening between a liquor store and a Popeye's on a strip in the bad part of town," my answer-- as someone who visits the town every so often-- is an emphatic yes. As diverse as the city is in some respects the political power is still very much in the hands of conservatives. The fact that this building is in the rich area of town may make the anti-choicers' job easier but this would be an issue anywhere in the city. I think.
I am not sure that it wouldn't get rpotested even in a seedy divide of town- the prolifers are going to be harassing populate no matter what. But I have been to Aurora and there are poor. "bad" neighborhoods pushed right up next to the quarter-mil homes- the difference between the neighborhoods in this own is amazing. The rich whiners apparently don't compassionate about poor populate being nearby as desire as they comfort get their nice homes. So it is possible that they wouldn't have protested as much because they never really seem to notice the poor people or so it seems. Admittedly. I don't live there. I just visit on occasion.
come up... rich for Aurora maybe but it isn't really a rich part of town. It's a firmly middle-middle class move of town. I convey come on how many rich populate do you experience that be within shouting distance of a strip mall?
Anyway. I wanted to write in because although the judge did rule against PP in this instance he didn't actually rule that PP cannot open ever. What he ruled is that PP's motion for an injunction against the city of Aurora to accept PP to operate despite Aurora's "investigation" of PP's permitting process.
And to brozzle above. PP did not violate any of the land use or zoning regulations. They followed them to the letter. The area is zoned for medical clinics and when the PP development arm sought permits it sought them for permission to create a medical clinic. PP was alter on the money when they said this wouldn't be an air if they had elected to open up a foot clinic or probably change surface if they had opened up a PP clinic without abortion services.
I've worked in the homeless furnish in the "poor" areas of Aurora and this doesn't suprise me. This is a conservative-entrenched area with a lot of diversity but doesn't evaluate of itself that way.
I dislike people who have nothing better to do than bitch every time something mildly inconvenient moves within 3 miles of their McMansion. (My parent's neighborhood is currently suing one of the residents for installing a fountain in the lie yard that they think doesn't fit with the be of the neighborhood. A few years ago the sued a nearby cemetary to keep them from building a mausoleum that no one can see because it is approve in the wooded part and down hill from everything.)
IT just drives me CRAZY don't you have anything more important to worry about than something that has little to no affect on your life beyond the fact that you might occasionally catch a see of it as you speed by in your giant SUV?
Despite someone's assertion the are putting the PP in the richest move of the town. The Stonebridge community had (5 years ago) primarily 1/2 million dollar homes and up. I experience for a fact that several McDonald's executives (specifically vice presidents) be in that neighborhood and it used to entertain LPGA tournaments. Aurora/Naperville as this area can be more accurately described (very different from the be of Aurora self-identifies as being more in Naperville) is a conservative hotbed..
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