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Pro-Life Advocates Celebrate Closure of Dearborn Abortion Clinic
American Family Planning closed its doors in April after 20 years.
Submitted by Monica Miller
More than 150 pro-life supporters from the metro Detroit area gathered June 15 at the American Family Planning clinic in Dearborn to mark the clinic's closing earlier this year.
The clinic shut its doors April 12 when its owner, Dr. Noon-Nahm Ann, announced that he was retiring after 20 years.
The memorial featured Protestant pastors as well as Father Aaron Depeyster of St. Sebastian Parish. National author Melissa Ohden and other women shared their stories with the crowd.
American Family Planning is one of 10 Michigan clinics that has either closed or been kept from opening in the past 18 months.
"We look forward to the day when every abortion clinic across the land will be closed, when every human life will be loved, accepted and honored — when this culture of death will become a culture of life," said Monica Migliorino Miller, a member of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society.
"Thousands of innocent human beings lost their lives at the AFP clinic. Their silent voices call us to work for a culture of life--and to help all mothers everywhere so they will not be tempted to kill their unborn babies," Miller said.
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