With little fanfare and dishonest press reports, Louisville's chapter of Planned Parenthood started providing abortion services on January 21, 2016. This means Louisville now has two abortion clinics. In December, Insider Louisville reported
that Planned Parenthood (PP) moved their Louisville clinic to a larger facility on Seventh Street just south of Broadway. In that December coverage the director of Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky lied, stating they had no immediate plans to begin performing abortions there.
According to their website, they offer the abortion pill (RU-486) up to 9 weeks of pregnancy and abortions up to 13 weeks. (Abortions beyond 13 weeks are referred to other abortion clinics.) The story was finally picked up by the
Courier-Journal last night around 7:30 pm, when Governor Matt Bevin spoke vehemently in opposition to Planned Parenthood's step, and suggested that they were operating without a license to perform abortions...
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Our Alternative to Planned Parenthood: Building for Life
For 28 years, A Woman's Choice has been providing an alternative to the "choice" of abortion. Have you listened to the rhetoric of pro-abortion advocates? The buzz words go beyond "choice" these days to mask the truth of abortion by the descriptor "reproductive health" or just "women's health." Now that Planned Parenthood has begun offering abortions in Louisville, our role to provide a Christ-honoring, life-saving alternative to abortion is more important than ever--and the fact that
our planned new location is only 6/10ths of a mile from the new PPINKY* office is a clear confirmation of our calling and duty to provide compassionate care for women in crisis.
God provided miraculously in 2015 by bringing Challenge Fund game changer, Raymond Loyd to us just over a year ago. What did Mr. Loyd's challenge grant allow? We purchased the building
without debt this past Tuesday and are now planning for the renovation--both space planning and
fundraising--in hopes of moving by the end of the year. But there's the rub:
we need your help to continue the dream. Turning a 40+ year old office building that some would call a "relic" of urban renewal into a medical clinic and education center requires deep pockets, creativity, and most of all: prayer! We don't want to
just move the ministry, but grow the ministry at this location.
If we want to be an alternative to death and Planned Parenthood, we need to grow our medical services to provide STI testing, and we must grow our support services to create job opportunities and comprehensive life skills training for moms and families in need. And at every step, the love, truth, and grace of the Gospel must infuse everything we do and teach.
*PPINKY stands for Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky. The two state affiliates merged to form a single Planned Parenthood chapter in 2013.
Prayer Requests:
1. Please pray for PP and EMW to stop providing abortions locally.
2. Also, please pray that our Building for Life Campaign will take off and provide all we could imagine and more, so we can move sooner and grow faster than we thought possible.
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