Hey! It's my family doctor, in a wonderful, positive article in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune about the only pro-life family medical clinic in Minnesota:
The AALFA Family Clinic's uniqueness goes well beyond its name and decor. It offers services that most family-practice clinics offer, with one major difference: As a self-described "Christian prolife clinic" that serves primarily Roman Catholics and evangelical Christians, it does not refer patients for abortions or prescribe birth-control pills or other forms of contraception, said Dr. Mary Paquette, one of AALFA's three physicians.
As of Sunday, Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, will have been the law of the land for 33 years. But AALFA, believed to be the only clinic of its kind in Minnesota, adheres to what its doctors and patients view as higher principles.
Paquette, her husband, Dr. Matthew Paquette, and Dr. Paul Spencer, along with a physician's assistant, a nurse practitioner, two nurses and many of their patients, believe that life begins at conception. "We are called to care for each patient with love, care and respect from conception to old age," Mary Paquette said.
AALFA's philosophy and highly personal care have won it a large following -- 5,000 active-account patients over the past two years, said office manager Nancy Grace. Patients come from throughout Minnesota and other states.
Patients interviewed on a recent morning expressed admiration for the clinic and its approach to care.
We only recently switched over to AALFA. It is a forty-minute drive, but absolutely worth it. The article focuses on Mary Paquette's adult clients, but the family practice physician's attitude toward and with children is compassionate and positive, too.
A detail the article doesn't note: Mary Paquette treats women and children; Matt Paquette treats men and boys older than twelve.
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