Rockford Abortion Facility Claims Victimhood in NYT

Abortionist from Notorious Rockford Abortion Facility Claims Victimhood in NYT Article
 
By Kathleen Gilbert and John Jalsevac
NEW YORK, July 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The author of a recent New York Times article on modern abortion providers may have made a strategic misstep in the abortionist that she chose to feature, if her intent was to paint a sympathetic picture of abortion practitioners. The lengthy article shines the spotlight on abortionist Emily Godfrey, who worked for several years at what may be the United States' most bizarre abortion clinic - the Northern Illinois Women's Center (NIWC) in Rockford, Illinois.
While Godfrey attempted to paint a grim picture of a threatening crowd of pro-lifers who allegedly “surrounded” her as she walked to and from the notorious Rockford abortion facility, one of the leaders in the Rockford pro-life movement has countered that the claim is demonstrably baseless. Kevin Rilott has pointed out that pro-lifers are not even allowed on the property of NIWC, let alone able to approach anywhere near the abortionists.
 
LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) has frequently reported on NIWC's use of vicious, threatening and blasphemous messages, evidently meant to intimidate the pro-life protesters outside. The abortuary was only recently in the news, after a staff member emerged from the building wielding a running chainsaw, with which he attempted to drown out the voices of pro-life counselors.
 
On another occasion the owner, Wayne Webster, was caught on camera communicating over the clinic’s outdoor PA system with an enraged local pro-abort with a pit-bull in tow, who was confronting the pro-life protesters. After the antagonist, by the name of Keith Sterkeson, had called the pro-lifer who was videotaping the encounter a "ni**er" 19 times, shouted the word "f**k" at him 36 times, and called him a "degenerate" 16 times, Webster warned Sterkeson that he had heard over his police scanner that the police were on their way. He also assured Sterkeson that he was acting no crazier than these “a**holes” (the pro-lifers).
 
In the recent NYT article, however, abortionist Emily Godfrey complained to the author, Emily Bazelon, about the pressure caused by the presence of the pro-life witnesses when she worked at NIWC.
 
“I’m a Catholic girl from the suburbs. I’m a yoga student. I like calm and serenity," Godfrey said.
Throughout the time Godfrey was working there, NIWC was undoubtedly anything but "calm and serene." In addition to the two encountes mentioned above, the chilling displays erected in the windows of the building, which continue to grow, include a nun in a coffin, a crucified rubber chicken, and rubber chickens hanging from nooses. Another sign in the window of the facility suggests that the abortionists have conducted "50,000" abortions while Jesus Christ (presumably through the actions of the pro-life counselors) has saved only "50" children; other signs direct personal insults at individual pro-lifers.
 
Bazelon, describing Godfrey's account of life at NIWC, wrote that, "Protesters surrounded her when she walked into the clinic." "One day, a clinic resident left his lunch in the car and said he’d rather be hungry than go back to get it," wrote Bazelon.
Godfrey left the mill in 2008 to work at the University of Illinois: "By taking jobs on university faculties, the young doctors avoid walking to work through a scrum of screaming demonstrators," Bazelon explained.
 
However, Rockford pro-life veteran Kevin Rilott said that the crowd of pro-life witnesses that have kept vigil outside the bizarre abortuary for years are peaceful and, since they unable even to enter the clinic parking lot, can do nothing but pray and offer help from a distance to women entering the clinic.
 
"As any of you know who have prayed at Rockford's abortion mill, the Christians who stand on the sidewalks at this mill literally can not get within 200 feet of a person who is walking into the building," wrote Rilott on his blog.
"Abortionist Godfrey parked in the back of the mill lot so pro-lifers could hardly even see her, let alone 'surround her,'" he added.
Rilott also took issue with Godfrey's account of her disappointment at the number of living children she delivered to poor women in Chicago – an experience that she says prompted her to pursue a career killing the unborn.
 
"Bringing so many unwanted children into the world, or children who wouldn’t be readily provided for because their mothers were on drugs or who were taken away at birth — well, that just solidified my feeling that I wanted to provide abortions,” Godfrey told Bazelon. She said she had tried, but failed, to stem the problem by giving poor women IUDs just after delivery - and was only thwarted by Medicaid's refusal to cover the second procedure.
 
"Considering that she was working in Rockford at an abortion mill that hung rubber chickens by nooses that offended African Americans," said Rilott, "this seems like another statement from a eugenics-minded person whose answer to African Americans living in poverty was not to eliminate the poverty, but to eliminate the African Americans."

See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Abortion Clinic Owner Responds with Chainsaw as Radio Blares: 'God Bless Pro-Lifers!'
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jul/10071201.html
 

Lifesite news is read by

Lifesite news is read by millions of people. The pro-lifers of Rockford are performing an amazing act of charity and love by informing the world of the deadly lies of the nightmare on Broadway.

Hypocrisy on a grand scale.

Hypocrisy on a grand scale. This abortionist kills babies, slaughters, murders them and she claims to be the victim. I guess we should feel sorry for those concentration camp guards who had to lift all those heavy bodies to place them in the ovens!

Since ProLife Corner began

Since ProLife Corner began exposing this cancer of the Rockford abortion mill I have noticed more people in this city willing to talk about this place and I have not heard one positive statment about it. It is an embarrasment to the city and I think people who go there or work there are really embarrased by what this place does.

This has to be the most

This has to be the most informative web-site in Rockford.

Your reporting is second to none.

Victimhood she says. Here are

Victimhood she says. Here are her victims

http://www.priestsforlife.org/resources/photosbyage/index.htm

If you follow all the links

If you follow all the links in this story it is amazing to see what abortion in Rockford has come to. A demented slaughter of innocent children.

When judgment day comes there may be a special section in hell for those who built this monument to death and evil in Rockford.

I read this and grieved for

I read this and grieved for my child who died in this abortion clinic and for the other babies killed here. God help us. God forgive me.

Though my mother and father forsake me, the Lord will receive me. Psalm 27:10

This tells the sad story of

This tells the sad story of those who profit from the killing of babies in Rockford and how they must lie to themselves to do the killing.

If you look in the dictionary

If you look in the dictionary under "culture of death" they should put a picture of the abortion clinic in Rockford.

Of all that has been written

Of all that has been written on the abortion clinic in Rockford this is one of the most compelling examples of how abortion is built on a foundation of lies.

They way this abortionists words are cut through with the truth by pro-lifers is wonderful.

Thank you for proving beyond any doubt that the abortion clinic in Rockford is a place that is built upon and is kept open by the lies of those inside it.

There is an ancient tradition

There is an ancient tradition that the wood of the Cross was taken from a tree planted by Adam’s son Seth over the place where Adam was buried. On that very spot, known as Golgotha, the place of the skull, Seth planted a seed from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the tree in the midst of the Garden of Eden. Through God’s providence, the work of the Evil One would be undone by turning his own weapons against him.

The pro-lifers of Rockford are taking the very words, pictures, symbols, and writtings of the abortion establishment in Rockford and turning them into life saving tools that expose to the world the sick souls at NIWC. You Rockford pro-lifers are truly inspired by the Holy Spirit, and your very good at what your doing - all glory and honor to God.

Every time, I mean every time

Every time, I mean every time I check into pro-life corner you have a new fantastic article.

The Rockford abortion mill

The Rockford abortion mill can't stop you from printing the truth.....not even with a chainsaw.

Great job Rockford pro-lifers of shining the light of truth and Christ on the killers of children.

Poor Emily, poor NIWC staff

Poor Emily, poor NIWC staff this is what they do for a living and some people think it's wrong. We should all feel sorry for them. http://herestheblood.com/

ED:  Excellent video.  It shows what mass murderers like Hitler and abortionists do.  Graphic, but important to see.  The video is entitled "Here's The Blood".

To have anyone in this hate

To have anyone in this hate filled abortion mill complain about anything after what they do to children and the way they ridicule people is a travesty and mockery that could only come from people with real physiological disorders.

Quote - "abortionist Emily

Quote - "abortionist Emily Godfrey, who worked for several years at what may be the United States' most bizarre abortion clinic"

Now that's an understatment.

I had seen this on Lifesite

I had seen this on Lifesite news and two other sites already. The Christians of Rockford are doing an amazing job of informing people of the evil of abortion.

Then I read the comments from your readers. They are just as on target as your articles. You have some very profound readers.

God bless you all.

Watch the video link Chemello

Watch the video link Chemello sent (Here's The Blood) then decide who the victim is.

O God, our Heavenly Father,

O God, our Heavenly Father, You sent Your Son into this world that He might Bless and Consecrate all life to You. Your constant Love protected Him as the Ever Virgin Mary bore Him in Her womb for nine months. In His mission He taught us the Greatness of Your Love and the Sanctity of Life. We pray that we may always cherish the Life that You give us. In a special way we ask and pray that You Grace and Protect all unborn children brought to the Rockford killing center. We pray the hearts of those inside this place of horror are changed from a love for death to a love for life. We pray this in the Name of Jesus, Who is Lord, Forever and Ever. Amen.

"By taking jobs on university

"By taking jobs on university faculties, the young doctors avoid walking to work through a scrum of screaming demonstrators," Bazelon explained.

What a joke these people are. anyone who has ever been to the slaughter house on Broadway knows the pro-lifers don't get near anyone going in. When I was there the pro-lifer did have one woman calling out to the people going in. But to those people like the abortionist and staff I'll bet it resounds in their soul like all the angels of heaven telling them to stop murdering babies.

The Real Victims Are the

The Real Victims Are the Unborn Children She Murdered

 http://al007italia.blogspot.com/2010/07/real-victims-are-unborn-children-she.html

Nor is she a "Catholic" as she claims. & once again we see how the once proud New York Times is willing to trade being the "newspaper of record" for being the newspaper promoting the agenda of the "culture of death"& given how easy the claims of her harrassment can be refuted you would think the NYT would want to avoid another scandal like so many others they have had in recent years with reporters being shown to have made things up.

Of course the claims of victimhood aren't the only lies & falsehoods in the article. For instance the line " SINCE BEFORE THE days of Roe v. Wade, a small number of doctors have quietly provided abortions in their offices (often only for patients with health insurance or who pay out of pocket)." The reality is quite diffferent and the NYT knows it. They ignore the reality of the reason behind the term "back alley abortion". Yes, the doctors were quiet about it, but that was because it was illegal to do what they were doing & since it was illegal more often than not, insurance wouldn't cover it & the women paid out of pocket. & those back alley abortions at the doctors' offices were where most of the deaths from botched abortions came from as well.

Then there is this: "After Roe, the shadow of the greedy, butchering “abortionist” continued to hover, and many doctors didn’t want to stand in it." The facts are simple, the shadow hovered because as has been proven so many times, that shadow reflected reality. (I've covered that fact so often I won't go into it here.).

Another bit from the article shows the NYT's attempt to attack the Catholic Church as well. It is interesting to see that except for Godfrey & a nurse named Ann the religion of the people involved in the abortion industry isn't mentioned. Ann is a nurse for an abortionist who also claims to be Catholic. "Ann (her middle name) is a Catholic grandmother who celebrates Mass every Sunday. She was adamantly opposed to abortion." The article goes on to tell how she compromised her faith. She may claim to be a good Catholic, but the fact that she is willing to work for an abortionist as well the fact that she praises him for being so good shows me that she sold her soul for a few dollars of pay & makes her claim she opposes abortion suspect as well.

 And of course the article attacks Crisis Pregnancy Centers as well by spreading the lie that they give "out wrong information like tying abortion to breast cancer or infertility or mental illness." The fact that study after study has proven all 3 to be true is conveniently ignored & the article also misrepresents the 2006 Congressional investigation it refers to as backing up the lies. That investigation was done at the request of Rep Henry Waxman who is a pro-abortion Democrat. In addition, the Dems were the minority party back then. Also, it was done with a political agenda, to undermine Pres. Bush's funding of CPCs. FYI Waxman has gotten money as well as endorsements from Planned Parenthood's PACs. So his pushing this study was done as a quid pro quo for Planned Parenthood.

That the CDC & other groups are pro-abort & have ignored/denied the data as well forms the basis for the report claiming what it does. The NYT article is a prime example of its anti-Catholic, anti-life, pro-"culture of death" agenda that permeated not only the NYT but the Main Stream Media for the most part as well. In the short run, they may sell a few people the lies they are peddling. But in the end, they will find out that they have ended up on the wrong side of history, just like so many others who choose evil over God.

Patience Trust Modesty

Patience Trust Modesty Courage Simplicity Humility Obedience Generosity Perseverance Selflessness Gentleness Love of God Love of Neighbor I see all of these virtues in the pro-lifers in Rockford.

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