Cameras monitor abortion clinic

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20091113/NEWS01/711139882

Published Friday November 13, 2009

By Leia Baez-Mendoza
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

The Bellevue Police Department is keeping a close eye on the Abortion and Contraception Clinic of Nebraska.

After a Wichita, Kan., abortion provider was shot to death in May and before hundreds of abortion supporters and opponents from across the country protested in August outside Dr. LeRoy Carhart's clinic at 1002 W. Mission Ave., five high-tech cameras were installed to monitor the facility and its surroundings.

“It has helped us keep an eye on what's going on,” said Bellevue Police Chief John Stacey Jr. “We can monitor a situation as it builds so we can tell if it's going to become aggressive or passive, plus it lessens our presence.”

Carhart's clinic has been in the national spotlight since he said he would perform some late-term abortions after the May slaying of Dr. George Tiller, a Wichita abortion provider. Tiller, who was a friend and colleague of Carhart's, ran the Women's Health Care Services clinic in Wichita, which is now closed.

Carhart said he would peform late-term abortions in Bellevue only in cases where the fetus could not survive outside the womb and until he could open a clinic elsewhere in the Midwest.

Previously, when women sought abortions past the 22nd week of pregnancy, Carhart referred them to Tiller.

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[ret5hd]

1. So what happens when the anti's decide they want the clinics records AND video tape?

[JoeyT]

4. I think the antis have their own tapes.

I'm pretty sure there have been at least a couple of incidents where they were recording the women that went in. I'm not sure if it's possible to stop them, either. :/

[drm604]

5. Are they actually taping or just monitoring? This sounds like real time monitoring for safety.

If they are taping how long are they storing the video? I doubt that the police would store months and months of video. They probably only keep it for a short amount of time if they record it at all.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Not sure if this is good news or bad news.

Won't women be intimidated if they see that they are being taped while entering the clinic?

[niyad]

3. that is one of my concerns as well

[HERVEPA]

6. Clinics themselves often have cameras outside to monitor the situation

[uppityperson]

7. Clinic also has info on who uses their services. Should police dept?

I hope they are only monitoring rather than taping as if they tape they have a long term record of who has entered clinic. The clinic has records of whom uses their services.

[Noseyaboutpollution]

8. Clinic video here

On our corner there are total of 70+ cameras. Public knowledge.

Anti's show up with camcorders and stage sequences to film for their internet sites.

Some video from Women's Center on same corner as us is featured in some YouTube crime videos.

So no big deal here.

[AaronAgassi]

9. Mendacity!

Someone should catch and record them faking content like that.

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