{"id":97350,"date":"2016-07-06T14:59:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T18:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=97350"},"modified":"2016-07-08T16:29:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T20:29:27","slug":"pendergraft-abortion-facility-closed-turned-into-homeless-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pendergraft-abortion-facility-closed-turned-into-homeless-shelter\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida abortion facility closes, turns into homeless shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2016\/07\/06\/abortion-business-closes-sold-to-group-that-will-provide-care-for-homeless-people\/\">inspiring turn of events<\/a>, the Ocala Women\u2019s Center abortion facility in Florida has closed down, and\u00a0the building will be used to provide charity to the homeless.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Ocala Women&#8217;s Center was one of four Florida abortion facilities operated by James Scott Pendergraft IV, who stands to have his state license revoked by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abortionprocedures.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88619 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN.jpg\" alt=\"levatino-ad-LAN\" width=\"306\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN.jpg 306w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interfaith Emergency Service purchased the building on June 30, and intends to use it to provide homeless people with temporary shelter, medical care, food, clothes, and other assistance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis clinic will have a huge impact on the health and well-being of the community,\u201d said IES Executive Director Karla Grimsley. IES is in the process of lining up doctors and dentists willing to donate their time to the shelter.<\/p>\n<p>As Live Action News has <a href=\"\/news\/traveling-abortionist-arrested-in-south-carolina-revealed-to-be-infamous-late-term-abortionist-pendergraft\/\">covered<\/a>, Pendergraft is notorious for a long record of misconduct over several states, including possession of illegal narcotics, practicing medicine without a license, botched abortions, and more. Most recently, a South Carolina grand jury <a href=\"\/news\/abortionist-indicted-on-drug-charges-as-his-abortion-clinic-empire-shrinks\/\">indicted him<\/a> on drug charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an inspiring turn of events, the Ocala Women\u2019s Center abortion facility in Florida has closed down, and\u00a0the building will be used to provide charity to the homeless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":97371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[19,3099,5387,72,9382,5643,5991],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Florida abortion facility closes, turns into homeless shelter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Interfaith Emergency Service purchased the building and will use it to provide homeless 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