Sixteen months have gone by as the legal battle has continued over the 17,000 square foot building and still, Planned Parenthood officials maintain they are unsure about exactly what services they will even be providing. Residents from Auburn Hills, Pontiac, Rochester Hills, Lake Orion and more, vowing to fight, continually assert that they do not want an abortion clinic in their neighborhood.
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Organized petitions, protests, and prayer vigils involving hundreds of residents, plus individuals and small groups appearing daily at the site, have been steady on Opdyke Road for over a year. But while Cooper implies that the Auburn Hills area is in need of Planned Parenthood, local residents disagree. Though Planned Parenthood could have settled the court battle seven months ago to begin dispensing their “counsel, birth control, and exams”, now, after having won the judge’s decision, Desiree Cooper of Planned Parenthood Media Relations says that the company is disappointed that the appeal will cause a delay of their services to the community. But Greene, on behalf of Planned Parenthood, refused. Defense Attorney James Carey, on behalf of his client, then offered to settle…provided there would be no surgery (abortion) performed at the site. In the courtroom, on September 7, 2011, Attorney Greene described his client (Planned Parenthood) as a health services provider dispensing birth control, exams, and counsel, while completely omitting the subject of abortion. Monica Miller, director of CPLS says that if the building is turned into an abortion clinic, it will be a mega-clinic – the largest facility in the state of Michigan. His argument: in common parlance, “people say they are going to the doctor’s office or the dentist’s office.” Planned Parenthood, he said, is no different. Saying that their facility qualifies as an office, just a modified office – a medical office, Planned Parenthood attorney, Alan Greene, overlooked the most common descriptors for their facilities: “clinic” or “abortion clinic”. In the ongoing courtroom battle that has ensued regarding enforcement of the deed restriction, Judge James Alexander ruled in favor of Planned Parenthood on January 10, 2012, even though the question of whether Planned Parenthood would be performing abortions (out-patient surgery) was never answered or even asked. Planned Parenthood purchased the property in November of 2010, but has yet to develop the empty building that is legally limited to retail, restaurant, or office use according to a deed restriction on the land. Among them: Citizens for a Pro-Life Society (CPLS), 40 Days for Life, Crusaders for Life, Realtors for Life, Central Oakland Right To Life (CORTL), and American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP). Opdyke Road in Auburn Hills, Michigan, on March 8th, many pro-life groups united to show their determined opposition to a proposed Planned Parenthood clinic at the site.
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