European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                20 the stars and stripes july modern livid Abb Hob by James Carrier associated Percsi the two Story red Brick building is a near us upper Walls bulging steel beams its Root jacked great cracks staggering toward the u is a bitter Symbol in the Graceful quiet of the suburb an upper Middle class neighbourhood of targe Homes and rec lined the a converted Pancake was the Headquarters of planned parenthood of mine it also housed a bustling clinic that dispensed veneral disease and cancer and the clinic is in the basement and what is left of the first the planned parenthood staff works workmen begin a repair but some things cannot be repaired the stricken sensibilities of the the memory of a year of picketing and violence out culminated in a deliberate fire it All began when planned parenthood decided to move to More pleasant and the Catho Lic the official newspaper of Paul Minneapolis first Paul abortion clinic to that was april Good from then on planned parenthood was on the de despite its beat efforts to explain that Only three per cent of patients each year came for that the Center had an Active disease Fig Ling program and encouraged family Community anger ran and the planned parenthood building was the Pivot on which that anger flanked by a car Wash and fast food restau it stands in an area heavily trafficked by Chil across the Street is a Library and a softball one woman said on television that she  let her daughter go for a hamburger for fear of learning about on the weekend after the first petitions appeared at the shopping Center a Block from the building on and la five area churches on he Dine spelled oat to Concrete reality at the 1173 supreme court Dedsion Al lowing voluntary said the to who condemned abortion at All five masses of Leos Catholic to the people of us the abortion Waino longer an father Dolan said he tried to tread lightly so that people could walk out of Church without signing the and a fair number but Many More signed the next signatures were handed to the planned parenthood Board with the Clear message youre not i was recalled John Healy an attorney and resident of Highland who signed a petition and later headed the citizens for Community a group opposed to the to abortion was not the abortion in the neighbourhood so was the counselling that wider state Law could extend to providing a teenager with contraceptives or an abortion without parental con sent these people  presume to adv toe our children to have their braces or what to or what College to but  take those and with a half hour or hour of  promote experimenting sexually with another kid or an said he thinks planned Paren hoods  approach toward sex files in the face of his efforts to raise seven children to we neither encourage nor discourage sexual a said Tom executive director of planned we do help them understand the consequences of their planned parenthood enjoys an enviable repo Tatum in Board members and sponsors Are Blue bloods of the twin including the Pul Buryi of floor Fame and the John publishers of the Minneapolis Star and operating from a base in Paul on an annual budget of planned parenthood bad for years referred women wanting abortion to Hosp tals or other but is per cent of the abortions were by doing heir coupled with coun seling on other planned parenthood offices had reduced the abortion repeat rate to four the organization needed More room and found a building is Highland they bought it knowing that the abortion Issue would raise some on third of the residents of Highland Are another Onethia Are and the religious Lue is fervent there Are two Catholic eight Parish parochial schools and two Catholic High sch Dofat two synagogues and about is protestant the building on Ford Parkway was the target for growing Community there were angry City Council charges that real estate values would court after a judge ruled that a woman does not Wight a neighbourhood by her constitutional right to an in August a person or persons unknown cemented the door locks splashed red paint on toe broke a phoned in bomb threat and wrote Dachau and abortion kills on the Walls in White in september there we an anal Cuoc using Campaign in heal with the addresses and phone numbers of planned pare Pund Board members and Telephone Calls including one to a woman at with a description of her the school bus route and the they wont be coming Home there were pickets at the building every Day and prayer services on in october someone fired two shots into the front and Cement blocks were tossed through the rear in de More broken windows and glued abortion clinic in Highland was it on 10 year the medical clinic opened and performed the Bret five two Hundred pro braved the blustery cold to March in front of planned parenthood stayed open for some 80 abortions were performed at the clinic through of the 30 Tauenta seen each half were Abor lion cases and the other half were for contraceptives or other family planning Hau were from the Paul 80 per cent were under 14 years of age and half had an income of lest than some an unknown were from at on while the night janitor was someone walked up the rear Concrete turned left and walked Down the beige carpeted Hall Way to from a two gallon can he splashed gasoline on the dark Wood dribbling it Down the Steps As a Ore and lit a in 30 minutes a local radio station received a cad from a Man who declared weve finally gotten rid the building still hot when planned parenthood began implicating their the Ash wednesday fire grew out of an Atmo sphere of they supporters said it did their came no Good and denied Ite brought measure of support for planned vote them awl contributions one woman walked Ever Tram the fast food dented bar an other pounded the door and i do Btl cart my it will Cost to but planned parenthood officials fed they must pay fora the clinic will reopen in five but some supporters say the fire Only horde pad earlier portions and did Little or nothing to change attitudes about abortion or women it also reduced to Kotany negotiating no one the Battle to end a court Appeal by the City still it u the and Ike resolve of he has pot i cant believe  go on As Long As were going to go on because there fighting for and were fighting for our said weve got to raise our kids