{"id":303139,"date":"2023-12-09T13:42:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T19:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=303139"},"modified":"2023-12-11T13:26:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T19:26:52","slug":"south-carolina-city-council-nuisance-abortion-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/south-carolina-city-council-nuisance-abortion-business\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina county council member calls for closure of &#8216;nuisance&#8217; abortion business"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">County Council member Stan Tzouvelekas in Greenville, South Carolina,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> introduced a resolution Tuesday in an attempt to shut down the city\u2019s only abortion facility, the Greenville Women\u2019s Clinic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The abortion business has been the site of a heavy police presence, with Sheriff<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Hobart Lewis <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/south-carolina-one-sided-rules-abortion-businesses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noting<\/a> in October that the police have visited the facility over 300 times in the past two years. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tzouvelekas cited the constant turmoil at the business as one of the reasons he would like to see it closed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn my book, that\u2019s a disturbance, that needs to be shut down and it needs to be cleaned up. That\u2019s the problem,\u201d he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2023\/12\/03\/greenville-co-council-member-requests-revoke-business-license-abortion-clinic\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> during an interview. \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greenville County has shut down businesses before that do not fall within the permits and laws that we have in the books.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou have to control the people,\u201d he added. \u201cThey [clinic] don\u2019t put security up. There are no security cameras. There are no security police. They have people out there with hate speech that are not very nice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/federal-judge-partial-victory-pro-lifers-buffer\/\"><em>Federal judge hands partial victory to pro-lifers in allowing buffer zone lawsuit<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/2023\/12\/06\/stan-tzouvekas-introduces-resolution-to-shut-down-abortion-clinic\/71804806007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greenville News<\/a>, the proposal a<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sks the county administrator to request the Department of General Services to remove the business license and classify the facility as a nuisance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dozens of people came out both in support of and against the measure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I am pro-life, I would like to see abortion ended across Greenville County, but it\u2019s clear that this is not anything to do with the legality or illegality of abortion,&#8221; Hayden Laye, founder and leader of Campaign for Abortion Free Cities in Greenville <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/2023\/12\/06\/stan-tzouvekas-introduces-resolution-to-shut-down-abortion-clinic\/71804806007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cThis is a resolution that would shut down the Greenville Women\u2019s Clinic because it is a nuisance business and I agree with that fully.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abortion advocates claim that the business is only a nuisance due to the pro-life presence outside the facility, and some are calling for a buffer zone instead to limit free speech. Planned Parenthood of South Atlantic released a statement in support of the abortion facility.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbortion providers, clinic staff, and patients have long faced threats and harassment from anti-abortion extremists outside of the Greenville Women\u2019s Clinic. These extremists are the nuisance to the community, not the providers of this essential health care,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2023\/12\/03\/greenville-co-council-member-requests-revoke-business-license-abortion-clinic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Vicki Ringer, Director of Public Affairs for Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. &#8220;This attempt to intimidate and potentially punish both health care providers and patients at the Greenville Women\u2019s Clinic in a brazen political attack is shameful and wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0The resolution was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wspa.com\/news\/local-news\/proposal-to-close-greenville-womens-clinic-draws-large-crowd-at-county-council-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent<\/a> to the Committee of the Whole, where it will be reviewed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/walgreens-cvs-petition\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-283198\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg\" alt=\"Walgreens CVS banner\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--768x197.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--500x128.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>County Council member Stan Tzouvelekas in Greenville, South Carolina, introduced a resolution Tuesday in an attempt to shut down the city\u2019s only abortion facility, the Greenville Women\u2019s Clinic. The abortion business has been the site of a heavy police presence, with Sheriff\u00a0Hobart Lewis noting in October that the police have visited the facility over 300 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":607,"featured_media":256534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>South Carolina county council member calls for closure of &#039;nuisance&#039; abortion business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"City Council member Stan Tzouvelekas in Greenville introduced a resolution in an attempt to shut down the city\u2019s only abortion facility.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/south-carolina-city-council-nuisance-abortion-business\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"South Carolina county council member calls for closure of &#039;nuisance&#039; 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