N LIFE,
RATHER THAN ABORTION.
SCOTT: WDSU ANCHOR RANDI
ROUSSEAU TELLS US ABOUT THE NEW
HOPE WOMEN'S CENTER, AN
REACTION FROM PLANNE PARENTHOOD
.
REPORTER: WOMEN ON THE FENCE
ABOUT AN UNPLANNED PREGNANCY,
NOW HAVE ANOTHER CHOICE,
LITERALLY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF
THE FENCE FROM PLANNED
PARENTHOOD.
A WOMEN'S NEW LIFE CENTER IS IN
THE WORKS FOR THIS SPACE ON THE
BUSY CLAIBORNE CORRIDOR, RIGHT
NEXT TO THE NEWLY CONSTRUCTED
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FACILITY
WITH THE MISSION IN ITS NAME
, LIFE.
>> IT AMAZES ME EVEN AS THEY'RE
WALKING IN TO MAKE THAT
DECISION, YOU'RE STILL LOOKING
FOR A WAY OUT.
AND THAT'S HOW WOMEN COME TO US.
REPORTER PLANNED PARENTHOOD HAS
BEEN UNDER FIRE THIS YEAR, WIT
MANY PRO-LIFE CRITICS PROTESTING
ITS CONSTRUCTION.
SO DURING GIVING TUESDAY IN LATE
NOVEMBER, MANY OF THEM, PUT
THEIR MONEY WHERE THEIR HEART
IS -- RAISING NEARLY $400,000 TO
GET THE HOPE WOMEN'S CLINIC OFF
THE GROUND.
>> THE HEART OF THIS COMMNUNITY
IS ONE THAT RESPECTS THE DIGNIRT
-- DIGNITY OF WOMEN AND RESPECTS
ALL LIFE.
AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ALL
ABOUT HERE.
WE WANT TO HELP WOMEN AND SO THE
CMMUNITY WANTS TO SUPPORT THAT.
REPORTER: BUT BEING NEXT TO A
CLINIC THAT OFFERS ABORTION
RELATED SERVICES ISN'T A NEW
CONCEPT FOR THE LIFE CENTER.
IN FACT, MOST OF THEIR LOCATIONS
NEIGHBOR ONE.
>> WE'VE BEEN AROUND SINCE 2001
, AND WE HAVE NOTICED WHEN WE
ARE NEAR AN ABORITON CLINIC,
THAT WE ARE MORE AVAILABLE TO
THE WOMEN WHO NEED US.
>> EVERY NOW AND THEN, THEY'D
EVEN SEND SOMEBODY TO US.
AND THIS YEAR, THEY'VE REACHED
1300.
WHEN ASKED ABOUT THEIR NEW
NEIGHBORS, A PLANNED PARENTHOOD
SPOKESPERSON RESPONDED, SAYING
THAT IT'S FOCUSED ON PROVIDING
MEDICALLY ACCURATE AND
RESPECTFUL CAR
AND, WENT ON TO SAY THAT
ORGANIZATIONS THAT ATTEMPT TO
DECEIVE WOMEN SEEKING
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE ARE A
THREAT TO THE WELLBEING OF WOMEN
IN LOUISIANA.
THESE TYPES OF FACILITIES AIM TO
CONFUSE AND SHAME PATIENTS WITH
MEDICALLY-INACCURATE AND
MISLEADING INFORMATION
WHILE THE TWO FACILITIES DIFFER
OVER ONE KEY ISSUE, ABORTION,
THEY HAVE THE SAME UNDERLYING
GOAL, TO PROVIDE HEALTH CARE TO
