Sunset Park clinic will no longer offer abortions, instead only outpatient surgical care

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**Sunset Park clinic will no longer offer abortions, instead only outpatient surgical care **
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A Sunset Park abortion clinic has shut down after Catholic protesters drove away doctors and patients, according to the owner of the clinic.
The Ambulatory Specialty Surgery Center of Brooklyn on 43rd St., closed earlier this month and will reopen in October as a new medical center providing outpatient surgeries, but not abortion.
Catholic leaders claimed the clinic’s closure after 22 years as a victory for their anti-abortion effort. Abortion advocates said they had never heard of a clinic in the city closing under pressure from protesters.
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  “It was getting more and more difficult. Doctors were getting harassed  and patients were getting harassed,” said building and clinic owner  Terry Lazar about his decision to eliminate abortions. “It was a  decision we finally had to make.”
  Lazar said the clinic tried to provide both abortions and other types  of procedures, but doctors and patients refused to cross the throngs of  religious protesters who tried to convince them not to go in.
  “You had protesters with signs and banners yelling at people telling  them they were baby killers,” Lazar said. “We were trying to do both and  it just wasn’t working. We would have gone out of business.”
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The new clinic - slated to open as the New York Center for Specialty Surgery under the direction of a California-based medical firm - is undergoing renovations.
So far as many as 20 doctors have expressed interest in working at the new clinic - a stark difference from as recently as a month ago when Lazar struggled to find doctors willing to work there**!!!**].
Monsignor Philip Reilly - leader of the group the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants - said he has gone to the center every week since it first opened to protest the abortions.
Reilly said both he and local Catholics were so happy, a celebration mass was held on Saturday at St. Michael’s Church on the same block as the clinic.
“It’s a complete victory,” said Reilly. “The people who are doing it have evolved and their hearts have changed.”
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Here’s the story from The Tablet, Brooklyn’s diocesan newspaper.
 
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. :extrahappy:
 
Interesting that the place is undergoing renovations. Here in VA there have been legal battles over abortion clinics needing to met the standards of outpatient surgical centers - which many of them don’t.

I am so glad that this abortuary has been closed through prayer and the grace of God!
 
helpersbrooklynny.org/ here is the link to msgr.reilly’s group Helpers of God’s Precious Infants,my parish invited msgr.reilly to speak last month,and it was an incredible talk.watch the video links on the site and one can learn a lot about prayer vigils at abortion clinics.
 
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Evidence peaceful protest works
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Abyssinia,not to criticize ,msgr.reilly emphasizes that they do not protest only prayer and one person sidewalk counseling .i hope you watch the videos links in my prior post,i think you’ll find them edifying .from prior posts of yours i know you are a true pro-life soul.God Bless ,stewart :harp: :gopray2: :signofcross: :gopray: :crossrc: :highprayer:
 
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