Update on Zoning Appeal
Special Privileges for Abortion in Rockford?
Zoning Appeal Hearing set for this Tuesday at 5:20PM
In order for the proposed abortion mill to open in a residential neighborhood at the 611 Auburn St location, a special use permit is required to exempt the "business" from regular zoning laws and regulations. The Rockford Family Initiative has received word that no special use permit can be found:
"While the Zoning Officer was not able to find the SUP (special use permit) in the City’s archived files, he based his determination on the totality of the circumstances with the information he had to draw a conclusion that the City has been operating as if an SUP existed for the last 40 years."
This is an unjust outrage. The zoning officer is saying that no special use permit exists but they are going to allow this child killing business to open anyway with NO PERMIT. Below are listed just a few of the reasons this is direct attack on the rule of law, justice, the common good, and human life.
1. The original SUP - if it ever existed - could have had limitations, constraints, restrictions, or wording that could affect this current situation. The zoning officer is suggesting the city doesn't care about this and are allowing it to operate anyway, without a permit.
2. Businesses in Rockford are not allowed to operate without proper permits. Why would an exception be considered for this abortion business?
3. The Mayor of Rockford is an outspoken supporter of abortion and has even appeared at and spoken at public pro-abortion rallies. Many members of the city council have spoken at pro-abortion rallies. How do we know that the special use permit is not being suppressed by this administration or abortion supporting individuals in city government?
4. We asked the city if this will be standard procedure moving forward that businesses will not need proper permits to operate and have yet to receive a response.
5. Allowing a child killing business to operate in a residential neighborhood will change it forever. At the old abortion mill on Broadway we had mothers crying going in the clinic and coming out. We had large protests and counter protests sometimes with anger and shouting. This created a horrific atmosphere in the neighborhood and divided the neighbors based on their position on life issues.
Over the years, we had hundreds of police calls to the abortion clinic. Pro-lifers were assaulted by abortion supporters on at least four occasions.
The city is now saying they can't find the permit that will allow this kind of disruption, anger, and chaos to a quiet residential neighborhood and they don't seem to care - and seem to want to allow the abortion mill to open without a permit.
Please contact your alderman (https://rockfordil.gov/city-council/) and express your shock and disgust at this situation where the city is considering allowing a child killing business to open without proper permits.
Also, please join us at the zoning appeal hearing:
When: Tuesday, December 20th at 5:20PM
Where: Rockford City Council Chambers, Second Floor, City Hall, 425 East State Street.
There will be a short hearing before the Rockford zoning board where the Rockford Family Initiative will be making the case that this abortion mill should not be allowed to open without the proper permit.
It is a sad fact that the old abortion mill in Rockford that was owned by the same abortionist and run by the same clinic administrator was closed by the state of Illinois for disgusting, unsanitary and dangerous conditions. What is the first act of this same abortionist and clinic administrator attempting to open a new abortion mill? Are they going to be allowed to disregard local law and city ordinance by opening without a special use permit?
Please join us in prayer and action to prevent this unjust outrage from happening in our city.
