{"id":296699,"date":"2023-08-20T11:38:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T16:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=296699"},"modified":"2023-11-14T18:31:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T00:31:36","slug":"abortion-industry-sues-halting-all-trimester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-industry-sues-halting-all-trimester\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion industry sues after halting of Beverly Hills all-trimester abortion business"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Earlier this month, an all-trimester abortion facility lost its Beverly Hills lease after widespread pushback<\/a> from the community, as well as the pro-life movement. And now, the abortion industry is hitting back<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last year, the DuPont Clinic announced its plans<\/a> to open an abortion facility in the wealthy Beverly Hills neighborhood, with their “services,” including an abortion doula, there for each procedure. Tim Clement, Director of Outreach for the Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, said earlier this month that the pro-life response to the new facility, which would kill preborn children in all three trimesters of pregnancy, helped get the lease dropped.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the property management for the building didn\u2019t realize what they were signing up for when they agreed to lease to DuPont,\u201d he said. \u201cBeing home to a first-of-[its] kind abortion business is not what this city wants to be known for and they definitely weren\u2019t pleased with the presence of protestors taking to their streets every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Previously, the Beverly Hills city council voted 5-0 in favor of a resolution expressing support for abortion. \u201cWe have stood up and spoken out when we\u2019ve seen human rights taken away,\u201d then-Mayor Lili Bosse said at the time. \u201cThis is something I wholeheartedly support with all my soul.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, however, the DuPont facility has sent letters to the city, accusing them of conspiring to prevent them from opening. The letters are a required legal precursor to filing a lawsuit, insinuating that will be their next step.<\/p>\n

DuPont claims four city officials, including Mayor Julian Gold, withheld permits, pressured the landlord to cancel the lease, and held \u201csecret meetings\u201d with Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, during which they \u201cpromised them it would stop DuPont from opening.\u201d They already filed a lawsuit against the landlord, Douglas Emmett Inc.<\/p>\n