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OCALA WOMEN'S CENTER V. CITY OF OCALA

OCALA WOMEN'S CENTER V. CITY OF OCALA

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Police security prices up
OPD increasing fees charged to businesses
Ocala Star-Banner, Tuesday, May 25, 1999

OCALA — Businesses that want to hire Ocala Police officers for special security details starting next month will pay almost twice as much for the service and assume liability for the officer's actions.

Judge rules police must protect abortion clinic
Ocala Star-Banner, Wednesday, April 28, 1999

OCALA - A federal judge has ruled that the Ocala Police Department cannot refuse to assign special duty officers to the abortion clinic, saying the denial of such officers violates the clinic's right to equal protection.

Lawyer brings quest to Florida
Ocala Star-Banner, Wednesday, March 17, 1999

ORLANDO -- The lawyer who made history in the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade case legalizing abortion has returned to reproductive law and wants to make history again in several Florida abortion cases.

Roy Lucas, the architect of the "right to privacy" legal argument for abortion, now says overzealous protesters are violating the privacy of patients, abortion doctors and their staff.

Doctor seeks court injunction to protect privacy
Ocala Star-Banner, Wednesday, March 17, 1999

ORLANDO -- While the federal courts sort through the Ocala abortion doctor's lawsuit against the city police, the county sheriff's office and a dozen protesters -- a process that could take a year or more -- the doctor has asked the courts for temporary relief from the "intimidation and harassment" outside his clinic.

Dr. James Pendergraft, owner of the Ocala Women's Center, filed a temporary injunction Tuesday asking that protesters be banned from coming within 75 feet or bringing any surveillance equipment or weapons within 1500 feet of the abortion clinic.

Matter of choice
Ocala Star-Banner, March 13, 1999

OCALA -- Lori Chamblin says she supports choice. That is why she and her husband are building a pregnancy counseling center just north of the Ocala Women's Center abortion clinic.

Physician sues city, county
Ocala Star-Banner, Friday, December 11, 1998

OCALA -- Dr. James Pendergraft filed suit Thursday against the city of Ocala and Marion County for refusing to provide off-duty, uniformed officers to stand guard at his abortion clinic.

"Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness but rather expose them." Ephesians 5:11(NIV)