*sigh*

So someplace deep in America's Heartland(tm), there's a big to-do brewing over a not-yet-opened Planned Parenthood clinic. As best I can gather, there was a lot of land zoned for medical use, thus PP didn't need to get the city council's approval. Now the legality of their building permit is being called into question, and the clinic remains closed.

Now, if it's truly a valid issue of someone screwing with the paperwork, that's all well and good. I still think the clinic should be allowed to open. I kind of doubt that, say, a plastic surgery clinic (read: something catering exclusively to rich folk) would have such a problem.

But there are some questions being raised as to whether or not that's the issue, or if it's a case of "run the eeeevil abortionists out of town". I'm inclined to think - especially considering that it's in what I'm sure is a bustling, civilized metropolis of Aurora, IL - that there's a good bit of that going on.

And that pisses me off.

"I told my children we were going to come out and pray for babies," Oswego resident Melissa Spartz said before the meeting as her 3-year-old and 5-year-old sat in their stroller.

Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area officials want to open a full-service health center. Abortion services would account for about 10 percent of the care provided there.

You know what the 90% of what they do is? It's stuff like this: Cancer screenings. Education sessions. Birth control. Prenatal health care. Oooh, very controversial, right? Clearly, this organization is going to morally bankrupt the lovely town of Aurora.

Planned Parenthood clinics provide health care to those who likely couldn't afford it otherwise. It's my personal opinion that sometimes that's going to include abortions, and if you don't like that and you're anyone but the involved patient and doctor you can shut up or go straight to hell. But even if you're vehemently anti-choice, what the hell is your problem with what's essentially a low-cost health clinic? Would you prefer pregnant women not see doctors? Would you prefer teenagers to just have unprotected sex for lack of condoms?

Argh.