Planned Parenthood building opens with heavy security in place

DENVER - A new Planned Parenthood has just opened in Denver, but not without major controversy and its share of protests.

Now, the building has security coded entrances, cameras, bars on the window and high fences outside.

Some feel the $6.3 million building looks like Fort Knox.

"We were 89 days early in getting building done and on budget," said Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Leslie Durgin.

However, protestors against abortion tried to stop the builders from working on the site during construction.

Will Duffy is the founder of Colorado Families against Planned Parenthood. His group targeted the homes of the people who worked for Weitz Construction, the company building the Denver facility.

"They knew before they built this what this building was going to be used for and that was dismembering unborn children," said Duffy.

"It really was economic terrorism. A lot of these folks don't make a distinction between birth control and abortion and they don't want them to have access to anything, including sex education," said Vicki Cowart, the CEO of Planned Parenthood.

The building was built with security and safety in mind. It cost $300,000 to make sure patients and staff will feel safe when they walk through the doors.

However, that security doesn't extend beyond the property to the people Duffy says collaborated with Planned Parenthood.

"We will bring the protest to their homes and it will be up to them to decide whether or not it's worth it," Duffy said.

Duffy says Families against Planned Parenthood plan to keep picketing Weitz Construction workers in the coming weeks.

Planned Parenthood says abortion accounts for 6 percent of what they do. The other 94 percent is sex education.