The city of Rockford and local pro-abortion forces seem driven in an almost obsessive way to shut down and stop pro-life efforts to help mothers and children at Rockford's abortion mill.
This editorial is written as a thank you to the hundreds of brave and faith-filled Christians who have stopped, dead in their tracks, the schemes to silence pro-life efforts.
We won't even go into the well-documented non-actions taken by the city concerning assaults against pro-life citizens that the city has refused to prosecute.
A homeless man hit by an abortion clinic worker's car and the numerous code violations by the abortion facility have been ignored by the city legal department. These are some of the things pro-life citizens have to deal with when they are opposing the killing of babies and the culture of death in Rockford, IL.
Some in the city of Rockford have had two agendas that you, the pro-life citizens of Rockford, have been able to stop.
The first on the agenda was the bubble zone that Alderman Karen Elyea proposed and which was, to our knowledge, supported by the city legal department and the ACLU. It looked as if it were a smoke-filled back room decision. It might have gone through had the pro-life citizens of Rockford not said, "NO".
Pro-lifers began praying and followed up with countless phone calls and emails that flooded the aldermen's and mayor's offices. Then pro-lifers filled the city council chamber and spilled over to the hall outside at the council meeting and demanded the rights of sidewalk counselors, to offer help to mothers and children in need, not be interfered with. First amendment rights to free speech and assembly have been and are being suppressed by the city legal department for too long.
Because of the efforts of Rockford pro-life citizens, the bubble zone was burst.
Not to be stopped that easily, the city legal department saw another chance to interfere with Rockford's pro-life citizens offers of help in the form of free ultrasounds. Pro-lifers worked for a month with the Rockford police department at the highest levels to gain approval for a mobile ultrasound to offer help to mothers in need in Rockford. It was approved by the Rockford police department.
Then the city legal department decided to strike. Using some vague ordinance accusing the mobile ultrasound vehicle of "soliciting business" on the streets of Rockford, the city legal department ordered the unit out of the city. But they forgot two things:
The first was the love of Rockford pro-lifers that motivates their desire to help mothers in need no matter how hard Wayne Webster, the abortion mill landlord, seemingly working with the city legal department, tries to stop them.
The other was that Rockford pro-lifers actually looked at the city ordinance for themselves. The ordinance was found that clearly shows the mobile ultrasound is not a business but a charity.
Date Published: September 20, 2010
