RALEIGH, North Carolina, July 7, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — The Raleigh City Council rejected Tuesday a request from a crisis pregnancy focus to give counseling solutions and assist for women at its own property located next door to an abortion business.
Hand of Chance Pregnancy Source Centers purchased property last year on Jones Franklin Road and requested a zoning allowance for commercial use. The pro-life charity sought to lower its budget by relocating from rented office room a mile away.
Hand of Chance operates as Your Choice Pregnancy Clinic, assisting women, educating, informing them concerning their pregnancy, and encouraging substitutions to abortion.
Even though the City Preparation Commission gave its unanimous approval, the city council voted down the timetable request, 7-0.
The just explanation came from Councilwoman Kay Crowder, that said Hand of Chance ought to rezone as portion of a bigger commercial project to suit in along with the city’s future land use. “This coordinated procedure would certainly create a a lot more effective usage of the land,” she said. “In contrast, this lot-by-lot, piecemeal, non-residential progress will certainly create little range offices on little lots.”
Tonya Baker Nelson, Hand of Hope’s executive director, said, “From all of our research, it looked love our request suit ideal in to (the city’s progress guidelines) and we were following all of the rules laid out for us, step by step.”
Abortion activists praised the city council for missing the crisis pregnancy center. “The Raleigh City Council stood game women in our city,” Raleigh resident Leigh Sanders told the News Observer.
The nearby abortion facility, Favorite Women’s Good health Center, has actually been the site of protests and demonstrations from pro-life and abortion advocates. In 2015 alone, 26 teams received protest permits at the location.
Baker said her organization doesn’t participate in the protests or demonstrations.
Heartbeat Global President Jor-El Godsey told LifeSiteNews, “The city council has actually definitely decided on an interesting put to attract the line in its newly announced zoning Strategy — ideal on the property line of an abortion clinic that takes the lives of hundreds of preborn youngsters each year.”
“Your Choice Pregnancy Clinic supplies women specifically that: a possibility to make the healthiest choice for themselves and their precious children,” she added. “Every woman deserves enjoy and assist throughout an unexpected pregnancy, and that is just what Your Choice supplies through free solutions love ultrasounds, STI testing, peer counseling, and essential educational programs.”
