National abortion chain goes bust
This apparently happened awhile ago, but we’re just now taking note.
Last night a 40 Days for Life volunteer noticed that the National Women’s Health Organization, which owned a chain of four abortion clinics – including the last standing abortion mill in Mississippi – had “suspended operations.” Here’s a screen shot of the home page of its website. Click to enlarge…
This great news would be huge if it were true that its four clinics had also closed, particularly the Mississippi mill, which would make the Magnolia State the first in the nation to be abortion-clinic free.
But three, including the Jackson clinic, are apparently still open and operating independently.
The Raleigh clinic was already known to have closed last year, after chain owner Susan Hill (pictured right) died in January 2010 of breast cancer.
That month On The Issues magazine reported that in its heyday the National Women’s Health Organization operated 11 abortion mills but was down to four, “in Jackson, Mississippi; Fort Wayne, Indiana; Columbus, Georgia; and Raleigh, North Carolina.”
After Hill died her brother told NewsObserver.com he was “uncertain about the status of the clinics but said Susan Hill had no children and no heirs to leave the businesses to.”
Apparently, although the National Women’s Health Organization is now defunct, the Columbus, Ft. Wayne, and Jackson mills remain open.
I called all three today. A staff member answering the phone in Columbus said the clinic was still open, it just “no longer belongs to that organization.”
A staff member at the Ft. Wayne clinic said, “We are now just Ft. Wayne Women’s Health.” When I googled “Ft. Wayne Women’s Health” I got a web page that indicated it is closed. When I called back the staffer said that link belonged to NWHO, but “we are still here.” It was she who told me NWHO went under “last year.”
I called the Jackson clinic twice. After being told the clinic was closed today, although it is supposed to be open every week day from 8a to 5p, I was told the clinic was still taking appointments.
However, 40 Days pro-lifers on site say conduct at the clinic has been odd. It has been open only sporadically since last week. Closed Monday, it opened again yesterday afternoon, but employees were all wearing street clothes – jeans – not medical uniforms. As I said, it is closed again today.
I can’t imagine pro-aborts would let the Jackson clinic close, even if it were a gaping red hole financially. It seems to me organizations like NARAL, National Abortion Federation, ACLU, etc., would subsidize that mill rather than leave Mississippi without an abortion clinic.
Even if remnants of the National Women’s Health Organization abortion clinic chain remain open, the fact that the chain is defunct following the death of Susan Hill is a blow to the feminist movement, which idolized her and prized feminist-owned abortion mills.
But feminist owned mills are going the way of family farms, being replaced by corporate mills – owned by Planned Parenthood.
[HT: David Bereit of 40 Days for Life]
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.
Twenty-year-old Gail had a safe and legal abortion performed on July 14, 1979, by New York abortionist Taskin Ratharathorn at Ft. Wayne Women’s Health Organization. Within two hours, Gail was transferred to a nearby hospital.
Gail died of massive infection on July 18. The coroner ruled that the death was caused by clostridium perfringens, or “gas gangrene.”
“Susan Hil…..had no children and no heirs to leave the business to.”
hmmmmmm…very interesting.
I can’t even imagine any “heir or heiress” inheriting the legacy of an abortion clinic.
“Here sweetheart. Grandma is gone, but she left you a highly profitable business, so you won’t ever need to worry about money.”
“What kind of a business, mommy?”
“A business that kills babies. Lots and lots of babies.”
No heirs to inherit this “business”. Praise God !!!
“No children or heirs to leave he business to.” I presume if she ever got pregnant, she aborted. Great way for abortionists to put themselves out of business.
No heirs to inherit this “business”. Praise God !!!
This is the paradox of the pro-abortion/anti-natalist mindset: They do not reproduce themselves in sufficient numbers, so their ideas die with them.
I always wonder if this is the reason that polls indicate that younger people tend to be more pro-life than older people. Is it the inevitable consequence of conservative, pro-life families usually having 3 or more, while liberal “pro-choicers” have few or none?
Anyone else notice that for your medical records related to the Jackson abortuary, they want a cashiers check made out to “CASH” and sent to North Carolina, conveniently where Susan Hill was from?
Gee, that just screams “TAX EVASION!” by the heirs/estate. Estates can have earned income that must be reported and included in the estate tax return. They are a separate entity and not exempt from any tax laws. Anyone want to guess whether or not this is getting reported to the IRS?
@Denise Maria: I always wonder if this is the reason that polls indicate that younger people tend to be more pro-life than older people. Is it the inevitable consequence of conservative, pro-life families usually having 3 or more, while liberal “pro-choicers” have few or none?
That concept was codified by James Taranto and is called “The Roe Effect.” If you’re curious, you can read the original article where he outlines his argument here. It doesn’t quite account for everything, but overall, even abortion apologists have a hard time dismissing it.
maybe they are doing pregnancy tests or passing out birth control. hmmmm an abortion clinic owner dies of breast cancer? i imagine shes had an abortion(s) sad but i hope this clinic is closed for good.
“Is it the inevitable consequence of conservative, pro-life families usually having 3 or more, while liberal “pro-choicers” have few or none?”
Then how do you account for those who are pro-choice and who come from strict, conservative, religious backgrounds and families where there were a number of children. Many of my pro-choice peers are from strict Irish Catholic families which did not practice birth control. They came to a pro-choice position after seeing their mothers minds and bodies wear out after too many children.
And when the fresh faced abstinence kids (and we know that they’re not all being chaste) meet the reality of an unplanned pregnancy, some will change their views. Those “pro-life” kids who do the flash mobs exist in a religious bubble of a black/white, good/evil world. When they grow up and leave mommy and daddy’s nice Christian world and encounter the real world, some of them will change. Not every balloon wielding flash mob girl will want to grow up to be a happy breeder which is what “pro-life” is all about. Eventually they learn that “father” doesn’t always know best.
And BTW, should’t you be thrilled and thanking your god that pro-choice women are not having children. In this case, abortion should be a social good. Right? But if abortion is criminalized, these pro-choice women will have to breed or have underground abortions which do have health consequences. So they will be “punished” and you folks, I suspect, will say good enough for them. And when they do produce unwanted children, they probably won’t just magically love them which could produce a new generation of those who will be pro-choice. All kinds of conundrums here.
“Students from Ithaca College and 11 other institutions marched downtown after a conference organized by the Family Planning Advocates, a Planned Parenthood-funded organization.”…
“Marissa Speno, president of VOX: Voices of Planned Parenthood, a group at the college, said Stearns and other Republican politicians who seek to stop funding for Planned Parenthood are undermining men’s and women’s reproductive rights by cutting an institution that provides more than just abortions.
“If they were just anti-abortion, they would be against abortion, yes, but they would also be for comprehensive sex education [and] accessible and affordable contraception, and they aren’t,” she said. “So what we’re seeing is that if you’re not having sex to procreate, then you shouldn’t be having sex at all. Obviously procreation isn’t the only reason we have sex.”
She gets it. Not all young people are pro-life.
Then how do you account for those who are pro-choice and who come from strict, conservative, religious backgrounds and families where there were a number of children.
Exceptions.
I will try to find the statistic, but I think it is like about 80% of children adopt the political/religious/social views of their parents.
And BTW, should’t you be thrilled and thanking your god that pro-choice women are not having children. In this case, abortion should be a social good. Right?
I would like to change their worldview, not abort thier children. BTW, I have seen many women become pro-life after having their own children.
Here, CC lets out a little too much information, with her use of the word “breeders.”
In our progressive, liberal circles, this is one of our insults for family-oriented people.
You see, we claim to be for “freedom,” and “choice,” but if you choose to be a Christian, or choose to refrain from sex outside of marriage, or choose to be in a male/female monogamous relationship publically initiated by a Christian minister, we get bothered by your choice. If you choose to raise your children according to your own religious beliefs, well, this would be OK if you teach them Buddhism Lite, or one of the versions of Christianity Lite (Unitarianism, etc.), but if you teach them your Christian religion, then we cannot handle it.
We look at you, and your 2.5 happy children, having after-church lunch in some Denny’s where we are just getting moving and shaking off our hangover, with contempt. We hate how your children seem happy learning about the flying spaghetti monster.
We cannot handle it. It would upset our world-view to admit that a woman would willingly enter into this kind of life without being coerced or brainwashed.
So, we have a derogatory name for you: a “breeder.” Your happy, well-behaved, neatly dressed, decently-acting children are proof that you only care about poducing automatons who cannot think for themselves.
If you were fortunate enough to socialize in same-sex politics, you will find out how insulting we intend the term “breeder” to be. In the more advanced circles of same-sex politics, we hate all heterosexual monogamous couples largely because our feelings are hurt whenever we see some insurance commercial or dog food commercial showing a male-female couple, with 2.5 kids and a suburban home. To us, that is prima facia evidence of evil.
And so we call you brainwashed automatons “breeder.”
We are not supposed to use this word outisde of our own circles, lest you discover the contempt we socially self-reinforce for you and your spouse and 2.5 well-behaved, b-plus-average soccer-playing ‘thank-you-and-yes-ma’am’-saying kids. CC will be disciplined appropriately for this slip of protocol.
We are not supposed to use this word outisde of our own circles, lest you discover the contempt we socially self-reinforce for you and your spouse and 2.5 well-behaved, b-plus-average soccer-playing ‘thank-you-and-yes-ma’am’-saying kids. CC will be disciplined appropriately for this slip of protocol.
It’s not the first time she’s used the term “breeder” to describe those of us who are happily married with children, and I’m sure it won’t be the last.
You see, we claim to be for “freedom,” and “choice,” but if you choose to be a Christian, or choose to refrain from sex outside of marriage, or choose to be in a male/female monogamous relationship publically initiated by a Christian minister, we get bothered by your choice. If you choose to raise your children according to your own religious beliefs, well, this would be OK if you teach them Buddhism Lite, or one of the versions of Christianity Lite (Unitarianism, etc.), but if you teach them your Christian religion, then we cannot handle it.
So, in other words, people like CC are really pro-abortion, not pro-freedom or pro-the choice to “breed.” She reminds me a lot of Agent Smith from the Matrix: “Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You’re a plague and we are the cure.”
Marrying my good man and having babies with him were the greatest privileges of my life. I didn’t know I was a breeder, but I kinda think it has a ring to it. I see a t-shirt or a needlepointed pillow in my future!
Last Democrat, you nailed it.
say this in your best snobby british accent……id rather be a breeder than an old maid spinster.
LOL so 4 clinics is a national chain lol ok…
I think there should be a tax on large families simply because they use more public properties than smaller families. They have to drive bigger cars using more fuel and causing more pollution, they consume way more of everything, they cause more wear and tear on the roads and most of all is education. If you and I are paying the same taxes but you have 4 children in public school and I have one why am I paying for your children to get educated or if I have no children why am I paying more in taxes than you are?
I have no problem with people choosing to have a large family but they should pay more as they are taking more than someone with no kids…
biggz i have a question for you. now that my tax dollars pay for abortions i guess were even. how much of my money has paid for you murder minded rabid pro deathers so you could get what you wanted…….a dead baby. and how many abortions are too many?
Well heather I can tell you exactly how much of your tax dollars are spent on abortion… ZERO!
It is against the law to spend federal tax money on abortions. So what are you complaining about? How does your tax dollars get spent on abortions? Abortions are paid for by insurance or out of the clients pockets. I know that some PP have employee programs where employees donate a part of their pay checks into a fund to pay for medical procedures that clients without insurance cannot afford “not just abortions but cervical cancer screenings and others services”. Yea real heartless people that work at PP… However churches are tax exempt… WHY? Heck we could pay the national debt way down if we just taxed the Catholic church just on its land holdings let alone income… Why are they not paying their fair share considering that they are headed up by another country all together… or whatever Vatican City is classified as…
Not true.
When PP has to pay their light bill and uses tax dollars, can they only pay for the lights that weren’t used in a room that didn’t light up an abortion?
Same as heat?
Same as salaries for their “medical professionals.” Can we just use tax dollars to pay for the parts of the time that they’re NOT doing abortions? What about their office supplies?
If our tax dollars go to subsidize PP , then we are paying for abortions. Don’t kid yourself.