Breaking victory! UW Madison scraps plans for late-term abortions
Wisconsin pro-lifers can claim victory after engaging in nearly a 2-year battle against the University of Wisconsin for its plan to begin commiting 2nd trimester abortions at its Madison Surgery Center.
While in May UW denied a WI attorney general’s report stating it was halting its attempt, yesterday UW finally decided to abandon the public relations nightmare, blaming pro-lifers. According to The Badger Herald last night:
UW Hospital and Clinics halted efforts… citing the safety and privacy of patients as the main reason, officials announced Monday.
An abortion clinic at the Madison Surgery Center… was approved in February 2009 by several patent boards…. The clinic would have been able to perform late-term abortions.
UW Health spokesperson Lisa Brunette said there was never a plan to offer late-term abortions at MSC, but rather “second trimester procedures,” which she said are not late-term abortions.
The main reason UW Health is no longer working to offer these services at MSC is to make sure all patients entering the clinic, regardless of what they are at MSC for, are not harmed by activists, Brunette said.
“We want to make sure anyone going into that building is safe from harm and has their privacy respected,” Brunette said.
She added UW Health is not currently looking for another location that would be safer for patients and does not have plans to look in the future.
Pro-lifers should now keep an eye on the local Planned Parenthood, from whence this ruckus started. It was only because its late-term abortionist, Dennis Christensen, quit following a contract dispute that the plan was hatched to move them to UW.
[HT: LiveAction.org via Twitter]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Big time kudos to Pro-Life Wisconsin and Vigil for Life of Madison for a constant peaceful presence on the sidewalks that made this possible. And above all, praise God for this historic victory.
YES!!! :)
There isn’t a shred of evidence that Wisconsin pro-life activists are trying to inflict physical harm on hospital patients. I’m glad that the abortion advocates have canceled their plans, but sad that they just couldn’t resist one last slander against the pro-life community. Peaceful protests bring harm, all right– public relations harm.
Don’t forget that the election of a pro life governor and the switch of the state legislature from D to R had more than a little effect on this. Madison is very liberal but the ongoing presence of pro lifers who would not go away deserves a huge high five as well as the threatened lawsuit against UW for using state money to train future abortionist at PP.
“We want to make sure anyone going into that building is safe from harm and has their privacy respected,” Brunette said.
Then stop trying to abort them.
1000 points for xalisae!
I second that! ;)
Right on X!
Ditto!
And Kelsey, you’re right. They’re just trying to save face. I didn’t even bother addressing their rationale because it was so obviously false.
“We want to make sure anyone going into that building is safe from harm and has their privacy respected,” Brunette said.
Then stop trying to abort them
So is that some form of “pro-life” intimidation? Until you stop doing abortions, we will threaten those who perform and obtain them and disrespect their privacy? Nice. Second trimester abortions are still available in Milwaukee – where women will travel if they need this service. Minnesota has a number of clinics who do this procedure as does Illinois. It’s just more inconvenient for women in Wisconsin but “when there’s a will, there’s a way.”
DD–that’s a deliberate misunderstanding. A fetus is an “anyone”…who is killed in an abortion. Therefore “anyone going into the building” is not safe, because the unborn child, even at a viability age of, say, 21 weeks gestation, would not be safe. This comment had NOTHING to do with harming abortion-bound women or abortionists.
Second trimester abortions are still available in Milwaukee – where women will travel if they need this service.
Great. I’m moving to Wisconsin, close to Milwaukee, at the end of this month. Thanks for the tip on where to go to protest the killing of the innocents.
Nobody “needs” a late term abortion.
Thank God! Prolifers do not condone violence against anyone born or unborn, but especially the unborn, innocent babies who would be targeted for mutilation, dismemberment and death. Xalisae, the pro-abort knows you were not referring to threatening or harming the Dead Babies R Us crew and when you posted “stop aborting them” you were referring to unborn babies.
I know. And I’d rather not dignify such an ignorant statement with a response. Thanks for your defense though, guys. <3
X, you’re my favorite pro-life pit bull!
Could this have anything to do with the clean sweep last month of both chambers of the Wisconsin legislature plus the governorship? Elections have consequences—way to go Badger state!!