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tod evans
10-03-2019, 05:00 AM
Which taxing entity has funded this?

Ill. claims to be broke when it comes to many issues and begs federal dollars.

Not suprising that this information is missing from the article.



From Drudge;


Planned Parenthood has been building a secret abortion "mega-clinic" in Illinois

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/planned-parenthood-mega-clinic-to-open-in-illinois-response-to-restrictive-abortion-laws-exclusive-2019-10-02/

After over a year of secret construction, Planned Parenthood announced its newest abortion facility on Wednesday: an 18,000-square-foot mega-clinic in southern Illinois. The new location is just 13 miles away from Missouri's last remaining abortion clinic, a facility in St. Louis fighting to keep its license.

Since August 2018, Planned Parenthood has used a shell company to construct the facility, leaving no public trace that the former medical office would become one of the largest abortion clinics in the country. CBS News first visited the site in August, while it was still being built.

Colleen McNicholas, the chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, said the facility was built in secret to avoid protestors and delays. Other Planned Parenthood projects had run into problems once the public realized the construction was for an abortion provider. In one instance, a communications company had refused to install telephone and data lines; in another, a cabinet maker never delivered an order, McNicholas said. In Birmingham, Alabama, protestors targeted Planned Parenthood's suppliers, flooding their social media accounts with fake negative reviews.

"We were really intentional and thoughtful about making sure that we were able to complete this project as expeditiously as possible because we saw the writing on the wall — patients need better access, so we wanted to get it open as quickly as we could," McNicholas said during an interview with CBS News.

Planned Parenthood expects the facility to begin taking patients later this month. In the meantime, the organization's St. Louis location said it planned to double its clinic escort staff on Wednesday in anticipation of increased protests.

With a newly conservative Supreme Court, access to abortion has come under fire across the South and Midwest, where state lawmakers have raced to pass laws that ban the procedure in hopes of overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court case that effectively legalized the procedure.

So far this year, state politicians have introduced 300 bills restricting access to abortion, according to data compiled by the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research organization. Twelve states have passed abortion bans, none of which are currently in effect.

But nowhere is access to abortion less secure than Missouri.

Since 2018, a lone Planned Parenthood has been the state's only legal abortion clinic, pushing some women to spend hours crossing the state to obtain the procedure. In May, that clinic was nearly forced to stop providing abortions when the state's health department refused to renew its license, a story first reported by CBS News. For months, a string of preliminary injunctions has allowed the clinic to continue operating.

Besides having just one clinic in their state, Missouri women face some of the country's most restrictive laws when seeking an abortion. Prior to receiving an abortion, patients are required to undergo state-mandated counseling where they receive anti-abortion literature. After that, they're forced to wait at least 72 hours before they can have their abortion.

In Illinois, lawmakers have gone in the other direction, expanding abortion access and loosening restrictions. Earlier this year, lawmakers in Springfield passed the "Reproductive Health Act," legislation that establishes access to abortion as a fundamental right.

Women from across the Midwest seeking abortions have flocked to Illinois, turning it into what Mary Kate Knorr, the executive director of Illinois Right to Life, an anti-abortion access group, calls "the abortion capital of the Midwest."

"It's a travesty that this is happening," Knorr said in an interview with CBS News. "It's a travesty that women come here to get an abortion."

Since 2017, the number of women crossing the border into Illinois for an abortion has doubled, according to data compiled by the Associated Press.

Providers near the border have seen those increases firsthand. At The Hope Clinic, a Granite City, Illinois-based abortion provider about 10-miles away from St. Louis, about 55% of patients seeking abortions are from Missouri, according to the clinic's deputy director Alison Dreith. On a recent day at Planned Parenthood's existing facility in Belleville, Illinois, just two miles from Planned Parenthood's new facility, every patient was from Missouri, something that Jessica Herbert, a provider at the clinic, said is typical.

"It's because they can't access basic healthcare in Missouri," Herbert said in an interview with CBS News. "There is a lot of hoops they have to jump through. It's fiscally easier for them to come here."

A tiny clinic nestled in the corner of a small strip mall, Herbert's office has seen a 300% increase in patients since 2016, an influx the facility isn't built to handle. Herbert says the office is at "max capacity," and patients seeking an appointment can wait up to six weeks to be seen. For some, that wait time can push women outside the legal timeline for certain abortion methods.

The small Planned Parenthood used to provide services beyond just abortion, like birth control and cancer screenings. But in 2018, Missouri's abortion clinics stopped offering medication abortion — commonly known as a pill abortion — and referred patients seeking that method to the Belleville location. After that, the Illinois Planned Parenthood became flooded with abortion patients from Missouri.

"We try to balance our schedule as best as we can but we are only a couple of people," Herbert said. "We are kind of a Cracker Jack box health center. You don't walk next to someone without brushing their shoulder, so absolutely we stretch our limits to the very best we can, but there's only so much we can do and at the end of the day."

The influx left little room for those seeking services outside of abortion care, Herbert said. With the opening of the mega-clinic nearby, they'll be able to expand those services, said McNicholas, who added that Planned Parenthood was expanding its staffing in the region to handle both family planning and abortion services. The new facility will roughly double the existing clinic's capacity, with the ability to serve up to 11,000 patients a year, said a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood.

Even though the new facility could absorb all of St. Louis's patients if the clinic has to stop performing abortions, McNicholas said the new clinic doesn't mean they're giving up on Missouri.

"Our supporters, our patients, the board, everyone is so committed to the mission of being present in Missouri and taking the responsibility to provide access to abortion for Missourians in the place they live," she said. "Although I am confident it will be a fight, we will continue to show up to that fight."

donnay
10-03-2019, 05:12 AM
SMH. It is a travesty, no doubt.

specsaregood
10-03-2019, 05:28 AM
How long until some distraught would be father claims kidnapping and has charges filed? Across state lines would make it federal I would think.

Warlord
10-03-2019, 05:37 AM
It's official: They're a death cult...

phill4paul
10-03-2019, 05:56 AM
Planned Parenthood fetus murder. When your organization is so odious you have to lie to get somebody to do work for you.

jkr
10-03-2019, 06:10 AM
Well, they have to pull up those "black weeds" don't they

euphemia
10-03-2019, 06:57 AM
Let’s please get past thinking anything they do is health care.

#nochildbornalive

Anti Globalist
10-03-2019, 07:38 AM
I've heard of mega churches but not mega clinics. Absolute disgrace that something like this is even getting funded.

specsaregood
10-03-2019, 07:47 AM
It's official: They're a death cult...

I snuck in and got a photo of their restroom.
http://iruntheinternet.com/lulzdump/images/place-sacrifice-here-baby-change-diaper-toilet-13990366752.jpg

phill4paul
10-03-2019, 08:08 AM
Let’s please get past thinking anything they do is health care.

#nochildbornalive


The small Planned Parenthood used to provide services beyond just abortion, like birth control and cancer screenings. But in 2018, Missouri's abortion clinics stopped offering medication abortion — commonly known as a pill abortion — and referred patients seeking that method to the Belleville location. After that, the Illinois Planned Parenthood became flooded with abortion patients from Missouri.

I've never had a problem with birth, as in inception, control. Condoms, "morning after pills."

Seems they just gave up on these so they could go for the full monte.

euphemia
10-03-2019, 05:28 PM
Actually they did no cancer screenings unless it was through a PAP smear, which I doubt. This is the biggest lie ever perpetuated. Planned Parenthood is not, and has never been equipped to do mammograms. At least one US Surgeon General is on record as saying they are not authorized for mammography. Planned Parenthood does not offer any non-abortive service that is not offered by a county health department. Birth control has been free since Obamacare. Planned Parenthood is only about abortion and genocide. Call one and see. Ask them if they can get your wife/girlfriend in for a mammogram. See what they say.

#nochildbornalive

Republicanguy
10-03-2019, 05:43 PM
I think people here are ignorant, trying to impose your own mindset on others. Unfortunate events take place. There may be more to this.

euphemia
10-03-2019, 06:00 PM
I think people here are ignorant, trying to impose your own mindset on others. Unfortunate events take place. There may be more to this.

No, this is true. You can look it up. One of the last clinics remaining in the state of Missouri closed because they failed to obtain proper licensing. Missouri, surprisingly, has all but outlawed abortion on demand.

I am using my patient voice because you live in the UK and admit to your own lack of education and life experience. The new clinic is opening in East St. Louis Illinois, which is right across the river. East St. Louis is desperately poor, and largely African American. Planned Parenthood, at its roots, is racist. Margaret Sanger, the founder of PP was a Malthusian eugenicist, directly linked through a cousin of Charles Darwin. Her thinking mirrored Hitler’s, in that she believed that all blacks should be exterminated, and that poor people should abort their unborn children, or kill the living ones outright. She started her crusade in America in the black churches of the south, and this is why you never see a Planned Parenthood clinic in Kensington or Knightsbridge. They will always be found in areas like Barking and Haverington.

There. I have met you halfway, so please do some research before you start whining about government. In the US, every county has a health department where poor people can receive almost any kind of health service, including birth control. County health departments also provide prenatal and postnatal care, and offer care starting at birth.

Republicanguy
10-03-2019, 06:05 PM
Is it free?

As for abortion clinics, you are telling me that all black areas have them? So if a black woman needs an abortion this place is only to depopulate the place?

euphemia
10-03-2019, 06:09 PM
Is it free?

As for abortion clinics, you are telling me that all black areas have them? So if a black woman needs an abortion this place is only to depopulate the place?

Okay, so reading comprehension is a problem, I see. No, I did not say that. I said that PP only puts clinics in poor areas. Their services are not free, by the way. They charge women and bill insurance companies. That’s another dirty little secret you didn’t know about, I norice.

Do some homework.

Republicanguy
10-03-2019, 06:15 PM
I suspect, it is because they are poor people there, not because they are black. Generally poor areas, with poor people may have children they can't support or what ever the reason is. Planned parenthood goes back to 1916 in the US.

Nothing is free in the US.

euphemia
10-03-2019, 06:48 PM
I suspect, it is because they are poor people there, not because they are black. Generally poor areas, with poor people may have children they can't support or what ever the reason is. Planned parenthood goes back to 1916 in the US.

Nothing is free in the US.

Margaret Sanger was pretty clear about her hatred of people of color. She put it in writing and gave speeches about it. Nothing is free in UK, either. Someone pays.

eleganz
10-03-2019, 08:44 PM
Something sick about having a legal monopoly on abortion.

Republicanguy
10-05-2019, 06:13 PM
Margaret Sanger was pretty clear about her hatred of people of color. She put it in writing and gave speeches about it. Nothing is free in UK, either. Someone pays.

Yes, tax dodgers who get away with not paying anything, even in the US this happens, and then all the snarky people blame the poor on welfare. Sad society.

euphemia
10-05-2019, 06:29 PM
How much tax do you pay?