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The mayor of Aurora, Ill., has concluded that there's no legal reason to keep a new $7.5 million Planned Parenthood mega-clinic abortion facility closed, after an investigation into deceptions by the abortion provider during the permitting and construction process.However, members of city's board of aldermen say they will raise the issue again, because the corporation was not up-front in its dealings with the city.Aurora is where city officials ordered the Planned Parenthood abortion mega-clinic to remain closed while they investigated the impacts of deceptive statements Planned Parenthood provided to city officials during its project process.Mayor Tom Weisner said although the company was not "forthright," there were no legal grounds on which to prevent the mega-clinic's ultimate opening. Alderman Rick Lawrence, however, said the mayor was making a unilateral decision that was inappropriate, since the city council found out just as the major was making the announcement what he had decided. Lawrence said he and other aldermen are going to try to raise the issue at their next city council meeting, even though it is not on the agenda. "They need a total of three, and he thinks they can do that," reported Jill Stanek, who also is a columnist for WND."Lawrence said they were supposed to have a discussion before a decision was made, which did not happen. This is a matter that all the elected officials were supposed to be involved in, not just one," she reported.Her report also confirmed that a lawsuit is expected to be filed almost immediately against the clinic's opening, based on the issue of the building's permits.The 22,000-square-foot facility was supposed to open in September, but city officials delayed that when it was revealed that Planned Parenthood willfully concealed its intentions for the building from local residents and officials.After admitting the project was sought under the corporate name of Gemini Office Development in order to hide its identity from pro-life protesters, Planned Parenthood officials said there was no intent to mislead or defraud."Over the last few weeks, the city of Aurora has been inundated with thousands of phone calls, letters and requests from people who feel passionately on both sides of the abortion issue," Weisner announced. "As elected officials, we however are sworn to uphold the law regardless of our personal, emotional or even religious beliefs."As WND reported earlier, any lawsuit over the clinic's opening would be the second in the situation.Officials earlier said they planned a libel action against Planned Parenthood and its Chicago executive for publicly accusing peaceful pro-life activists of having a record of advocating violence.The lawsuit was announced by the Thomas More Society of Chicago, whose chief counsel, Tom Brejcha, told WND the action is on behalf of pro-life protesters who are opposing the opening of a mega-clinic abortion facility in suburban Aurora.Stanek's blog said Aurora residents who took part in a 40-day prayer vigil over Planned Parenthood's plans to open the mega-clinic will be listed as plaintiffs.Stanek reports that the lawsuit comes in response to a Sept. 4 letter by Chicago Planned Parenthood executive Steve Trombley to aldermen in Aurora, a letter he also sent to the Aurora Beacon newspaper.In that document, he said "those who oppose" the mega-clinic have a "well-documented history of advocating violence against both persons and property."The letter was an attempt to persuade city officials to grant a permanent certificate of occupancy for the mega-clinic, despite the fact Planned Parenthood deceived city officials during the process of obtaining zoning and building permits."Does it truly come as a surprise, then, that as we complied with all legal and public disclosure requirements, we simultaneously sought to keep this private while the construction was proceeding because the zealots who have been opposing our new facility have a well-documented history of violence and criminal activity?" the letter said."That's an outright smear," Brejcha told WND.To read more go to:
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