Archbishop Lucas Throws Out A Challenge to Fight Planned Parenthood

The infamous Planned Parenthood-Heartland is threatening to add another site to the 2 they already have in Omaha. This time the site will offer abortions. Currently they refer people to their Council Bluffs location accross the river in Iowa. No info on whether they will be surgical, or if they will be expanding their telemed scheme. If it is telemed then it raises the question of what does Nebraska law require & will having the doctor in Iowa be acceptable. Something tells me though that PPH doesn't care 1 way or the other.

1 of the local news stories focuses in on a neighbor's objection. She is not objecting to PP & what it stands for. She is concerned about the pro-life protestors but because she has bought into the lie about the protestors being violent. & of course, the TV station doesn't question PP's lie, it just reports PP is putting in safety protocols. In other words, it is aiding & abetting PP's smear tactics.

Bravo to Archbishop Lucas for issuing the challenge to pray & protest. & esp for issuing it to all, not just Catholics.

Archbishop Urges All to Oppose Opening of New Planned Parenthood

By James Tillman
OMAHA, Nebraska, July 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- Archbishop George Joseph Lucas of Omaha has released a statement asking "Catholics and all women and men of good will ... to oppose the opening" of a new Planned Parenthood facility in Omaha both by prayer and by petitioning their elected officials. It would be the first Omaha Planned Parenthood to provide abortion.
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland (PPH) has announced plans to open an abortuary at 3105 N. 93rd Street in Omaha, the archbishop explained, which "will include among its services the killing of unborn children through abortion."
The archbishop invited people to sign a petition, made by Nebraskans for Life and distributed to all Omaha parishes, expressing opposition to the new facility. Nebraskans for Life hopes to use the petition to demonstrate the need for City Council members and state lawmakers to intervene.
He also invited people to join him in prayer at the location of the planned abortuary on Saturday, July 31, 2010, at 1 p.m.
"Make your voice heard in opposition to the efforts of Planned Parenthood to expand the culture of violence and death in Omaha," he said.
"Please pray for a greater respect for all human life, from conception to natural death."
Jill June, CEO of PPH, responded to the archbishop’s words, saying that his statement contained some "very harsh rhetoric" and that they would continue to build the "beautiful Planned Parenthood clinic.”
"It is important that women have access to safe and legal abortions," she continued, "because when they do not, they suffer and die from illegal and unsafe abortions."
PPH has previously been criticized for conducting profitable "telemed" abortions, in which a doctor at a remote location conducts patient consultations over the internet before the patient receives the RU-486 abortion pill from a remotely unlocked drawer.
The RU-486 abortion pill has been responsible for the deaths of at least six women in the United States, and the law requires that a doctor administer it.
PPH has been investigated for conducting such “telemed” abortions without a physician present and has had a criminal complaint filed against it by Operation Rescue.
"Women and their unborn children deserve better than to suffer the violence of abortion," Archbishop Lucas said in his statement.
He went on to recommended to any woman considering abortion a number of pro-life crisis pregnancy centers: Catholic Charities, Essential Pregnancy Services, A Woman’s Touch, AAA Crisis Pregnancy Center, Bethlehem House and Gabriel’s Corner.
Archbishop George Lucas was appointed the archbishop of Omaha in 2009 after Archbishop Elden Curtiss resigned. He was previously Bishop of Springfield, Illinois.

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