Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, has not had a staff member in Chattanooga in 16 years but hopes to change that in the near future.
Not if we can help it, say pro-life advocates, who drew nearly 100 people to a meeting at the Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul last week.
Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi recently posted a job for a community organizer in Chattanooga and would like to add a health educator, its spokeswoman says.
The organization currently has four clinics in Tennessee, two in Memphis and one each in Nashville and Knoxville.
Chattanooga Women’s Clinic, which had provided abortions for nearly 20 years, closed in April 1993. That left the city at the time as the largest in the country with no abortion clinic.