Planned Parenthood to Close Clinic

SAN MATEO COUNTY TIMES, May 6 – After nearly two decades of operation, the Planned Parenthood clinic in Daly City, Calif., will close at the end of May.

According to Dian Harrison, president and chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood-Golden Gate – one of the largest Planned Parenthood affiliates in the United States – the closure is due to the poor economic condition of the agency, which operates the Daly City clinic and eight others in the San Francisco Bay area.

Harrison said a number of problems have combined to paint a disastrous financial picture, according to the San Mateo County Times, a daily newspaper. She cited a substantial drop in donations from individuals and foundations as a key factor behind the decision to close the clinic.

Pro-Life Pharmacists Can Say No

LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL, May 6 – The Nevada Senate has put the brakes on a bill that would have forced pharmacists to fill prescriptions they oppose for personal or religious reasons.

The bill had been sought by Planned Parenthood because of an incident in 2001 in which a Carson City pharmacist denied birth-control pills to a Reno woman, reported a Las Vegas newspaper, the Review-Journal.

Sen. Barbara Cegavske, R-Las Vegas, said she tabled the bill because Senate members received hundreds of e-mail messages over the weekend from people opposed to provisions in the bill.

Yalies Form CLAY

NEWS CHANNEL 8(Norwich, Conn.) – On a liberal college campus like Yale, pro-life students know they are in the minority. That only makes them more determined to have their voices heard, reported Connecticut's ABC affiliate.

“I think it's Yale's dirty secret because people take it for granted everyone's pro-choice here, but I have met so many pro-life people here,” grad student Justin List told a reporter.

Calling themselves CLAY for “Choose Life at Yale,” the group is calling for a partial reimbursement of their student fees, which they believe go to help students pay for abortions. School is about to end for the year, but CLAY will work next fall for the reimbursement and to be recognized as an official group on campus.

Pro-Life Poster Okay in UK

THE WESTERN MAIL, May 1 – A high-court judge has cleared the way for two pro-life candidates standing in the National Assembly election to continue using a poster of an aborted fetus that had angered some members of the public.

Police lawyers agreed to hand back the poster to Pro-Life Party candidates Joseph Biddulph and Fiona Pinto for the rest of the current election campaign, reported the national newspaper of Wales. In ordering the return of the posters, the judge said arrangements should be made to ensure Pinto could “carry on electioneering ... with the assistance of the poster.”