Expanded clinic draws peaceful protesters
By Erin Schulte
Staff Reporter
Bill Schubert has joined other pro
testers outside the new Planned Par
enthood Clinic, weathering extreme
heat and rush-hour traffic, holding a
sign that reads “Abortion Kills Chil
dren.”
“People have asked if the heat both
ers me,” said Schubert, a member of
Lincoln Right to Life. “If you believe
in a cause, the weather is no problem.
You don’t care if it’s cold or hot.”
Despite his visual effort to protest
the clinic, Schubert agrees with clinic
administrators about one thing: the
protest will stay peaceful.
“I don’t think Lincoln will have
problems,” Schubert said. “There are
other places that will be offering more
abortions than Lincoln does, and peo
ple will protest there.”
Though the new clinic does offer
first-trimester abortions, people are
overlaying the abortion issue, said
Chris Funk, executive director of
Planned Parenthood of Lincoln.
The new clinic opened Aug. 9 at
3705 South St., because the Planned
Parenthood clinic at 2246 O St. was
just too crowded, Funk said.
Lincoln has needed a second clinic,
offering a wider range of services —
first-trimester abortions and prenatal
care — for more than five years, she
said.
F irst-trimester abortions account for
more than 90 percent of all abortions,
Funk said, so Planned Parenthood is
“If you believe in a
cause, the weather is no
problem. You don’t care
if it’s cold or hot. ”
■
BILL SCHUBERT
a member of Lincoln Right to Life
providing a much-needed service.
The clinic plans to expand its ser
vices to men, she said. HIV testing is
available now to men at both clinics,
Funk said. An£l the new clinic will
offer other reproductive health care
services to men.
But the clinic’s abortion services
get most of the attention. Abortions are
available one day a week, Funk said,
and that day will not be announced.
The protesters shouldn’t bother
women coming to the clinic for any
service, she said; the new clinic has a
private driveway that demonstrators
cannot get to.
Patients will be provided with es
corts if harassment, such as yelling
from the street, becomes a problem,
Funk said. And police will be called if
protesters trespass onto the fenced-in,
private property.
Schubert said he didn’tknow wheth
er the demonstrations would change
the minds of women planning abor
tions.
“I don’t know if they pay any atten
tion to us.”
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Ardith Allison, left, and Agnes Groth protest outside the new Planned Parenthood clinic at
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