Closing! Planned Parenthood, Monticello, IA
It was just a Planned Parenthood satellite “express” and only open 2 days a week, but still. The PP in Monticello, IA, has announced it will be closing, yeah!
Steve Brody, Exec. Dir. of Dubuque Co. Right to Life (where I’ll be speaking April 16) forwarded me a newspaper clipping from the teeny tiny Monticello Express. Other than that, no word anywhere else. PP wants its satellite to die silently, how it prefers all its deaths. Sorry, I’m not finding any online copy – Monticello Express’s website hasn’t been updated since October 2009. Click to enlarge…
Steve emailed:
This location opened in 2008 only a few months before the PP in Dubuque…. It appears to follow the same consolidation strategy PP is pursuing throughout the country to save money….
The efforts of pro-life warriors are working, and we know we can shut them down in Dubuque as well. Please pass along this great news….
Yes, it is great news.
PP’s spin on the closing was amusing. For all of PP’s talk of wanting “reproductive healthcare” available in every nook and cranny of the universe, PP is supposedly shuttering its Monticello branch because women find it more convenient to travel farther…
Feedback from patients has reflected their preference in the convenience of accessing reproductive healthcare while traveling to Cedar Rapids and Dubuque for work and shopping. Both health centers are equal distances from the current… location – 35 miles.
As a matter of fact, PP’s “express” shops have not been doing well at all. In a March 15, 2010, report on the ebb and flow of PP facilities, American Life League found (click to enlarge):
And so another PP “express” bites the dust.
[Photo via Planned Parenthood]
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.
“It was just a Planned Parenthood satellite “express” and only open 2 days a week, but still. The PP in Monticello, IA, has announced it will be closing, yeah!”
Jill,
This is how all empires crumble-beginning at the margins and contracting inexorably inward. Great news for Holy Week! Praise God!!
Yes, this is fantastic news for Holy Week. Blessed are the children who otherwise may not survive pregnancy due to a selfish decision by irresponsible parents.
I notice that this was not one of the smaller Iowa locations offering “telemed abortions.” That is how PP of the Heartland is keeping open the smaller clinics that have no access to licensed physicians that would otherwise be closing like this one. Read more about it at http://operationrescue.org. I guess PP of East Central Iowa hasn’t caught on yet — and hope they never do!
The mere fact that yet one more abortion clinic, regardless of it’s size is closing, is reason to celebrate.
Pray that Ms. Vick wakes up to the error of her ways with her invovlvement in this satanic organization.
Vince,
Please pray for those seeking abortion today.
Please know that PP also LIES to young, vulnerable, frightened women who feel they have no other choice.(How is it choice when you feel you have no other choice?) They prey upon the fear and conceal the truth.
Women and men are being deceived daily by the evil lies of the abortion industry.
A bunch of cells! A blob! Some tissue! That is how they SELL abortions.
Babies jumping up and down in wombs all over Iowa!
Keep increasing social tension!!!
From what I remember from the Aurora PP “express” shop (this one also closed), they only dispense BC pills, give out condoms/ literature and refer people to their bigger abortuaries for actual abortions.
Take out the abortion “services” from PP and the facility folds.
Didn’t PP state that “abortion is only 3% of what it does”?
(Rhetorical question)What kind of business closes down facilities if 3% of it’s income is not available?
They seem to be proud of collaborating with what may be Catholic institutions.
So please tell me. When Planned Parenthoods shut down, where do women of limited income (not on Medicaid) go for inexpensive pap smears, mamograms, STD diagnosis counseling/medication and contraceptives? I realize that you don’t believe that women should have access to birth control, but they do have other reproductive health needs. Will the “pro-lifers” set up clinics to fullfill these needs?
Medical (pill) abortions have to be far more profitable than early surgical abortions.
This is really unfortunate. I’ve gone to express clinics like this for health care, as have many of my male friends, and the health care workers there are kind, intelligent and always willing to help however they can. They’re wonderful places, and such a help for small communities. What a shame.
Kind, intelligent and always willing to refer for abortion. Awesome! Helping to kill a growing child and wound the mother. They are wonderful places that lie for profit. Abortion helps no one.
Glad it closed.
Artemis,
I’ve got news for you, PP is not the only provider or low-cost services for the low-income and underinsured.
In many cities, hospitals/health systems also operate non-profit, federally qualified community health centers, which take Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance, as well as offer a sliding fee scale for those without insurance. One such example, is BMH Open Door Health Clinics: http://www.odbmh.org/services.html
Also, there may be other federally-funded, community-based health clinics in the area, such as PACE Community Action Agencies’ Health Connection: http://www.pacecaa.org/content.asp?page=1&code=healthconnection
Also, many hospitals/health care systems offer a patient assistance program or managed care program for the uninsured in which the cost of services are discounted on a sliding-fee scale based on their income and household size (you do not have to be on Medicaid to qualify), and not only applies to inpatient services, but also applies to community services affiliated with the hospital or health care system, including primary care and family planning centers, pharmacies, mental health counseling, etc. One such example is Wishard Health Advantage: http://www.wishard.edu/health-advantage.html
And as for your quip, many pro-lifers are already doing that, in fact there are currently 572 centers which offer medical services, including STD prevention and testing, ultrasound, and limited prenatal care. According to NIFLA, who heads up the changes of a pregnancy resource center to become a medical clinic, ‘To do so, the center must be a licensed medical clinic under the laws of the state in which it operates. Unless dictated otherwise by state statutory regulations, a “medical clinic” is defined as a facility which provides medical services under the supervision and direction of a licensed physician.(2)
Sources:
(1)Search of Heartbeat International’s online international directory of pregnancy resource centers, using search terms, “Service: Some Medical Services”
(2)National Institute of Life and Family Advocates
http://www.nifla.org/faqs.asp
Artemis,
Ask Obama.
He has his fingers on the pulse of healthcare.
Artemis,
According to a certain PP clinic director who flipped sides last year, PP execs. were stressing the need to drum up abortions, as they weren’t making money on their other services.
So your question is an interesting one and begs a deeper question:
Are we so bereft as a nation that we cannot devise any other means of providing women of little means affordable healthcare, other than by subsidizing those tests with money made from the slaughter of babies?
It’s a false dichotomy you present here. It suggests a certain cannibalism of our young in order to sustain the older members of the tribe. Men and women have received Nobel Prizes in economics for devising far more complicated solutions to far more complicated issues.
This is relatively easy to do, but first we have to exclude the cannibal option.
Artemis,
Ask Obama.
He has his fingers on the pulse of healthcare.
Posted by: carla Author Profile Page at March 30, 2010 1:10 PM
Yes, but Carla, nobody ever told him that you never, ever, ever take a jugular pulse simultaneously on both sides of the neck because it cuts off much of the bloodflow to the brain and can cause pretty serious damage to the patient if done long enough….
Thank you Jesus!!! Another one gone!!! I pray more to come!
Please pray daily for God’s mercy, zero abortions and zero injustices and for the conversion of President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, every Congressman/woman, Hillary Clinton, Kathleen Sebellius, everyone in the Supreme Court and everyone in every government and every soul on earth to God’s Gospel of Life. Women are being used as guinea pigs with RU486 and Plan B. Human life begins at conception. No one would volunteer for poisoning, chemical injections in the heart, vacuumed brains and in pieces, pulled apart in pieces, etc and if survive left to die so no one should volunteer innocent children. Abortion/daily killings of over 3,300, over 50 million, children leaves mothers, fathers, families and society mentally harmed, mothers physically harmed(even breast cancer link) and some mothers die, none of which will ever be justified. Just like slavery legal and wrong so is abortion. Right to Life is not based on age, size, shape, color or health. Anyone needing pregnancy resources or hurting from abortion, please call 1-800-395-Help(4357) set this number on your cell phones.
Please pray daily for God’s mercy, zero abortions and zero injustices and for the conversion of President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, every Congressman/woman, Hillary Clinton, Kathleen Sebellius, everyone in the Supreme Court, Margaret Sanger, Cecile Richards and everyone in every government and every soul on earth to God’s Gospel of Life. Women are being used as guinea pigs with RU486 and Plan B. Human life begins at conception. No one would volunteer for poisoning, chemical injections in the heart, vacuumed brains and in pieces, pulled apart in pieces, etc and if survive left to die so no one should volunteer innocent children. Abortion/daily killings of over 3,300, over 50 million, children leaves mothers, fathers, families and society mentally harmed, mothers physically harmed(even breast cancer link) and some mothers die, none of which will ever be justified. Just like slavery legal and wrong so is abortion. Right to Life is not based on age, size, shape, color or health. Anyone needing pregnancy resources or hurting from abortion, please call 1-800-395-Help(4357) set this number on your cell phones.
1st of all, looking forward to your coming here to DBQ later this month.
We are praying & working hard for the PP in DBQ to close as well. despite their “Happy Face” spin they put on their 1st Anniversary of the DBQ site, they are not exactly having the success they hoped. They are averaging 3 people a day. & given the ages & short time stays of many of the few that I have seen go in (& few is what it has been) I suspect they aren’t getting any major health care, just free condoms.
That small number makes the spin all the more hilarious to me. If they ARE coming to DBQ for “reproductive health care” then they sure ARE NOT coming to the DBQ PP. Thus my belief their claim IS the Big lie.
See you on the 16th!
as Rachel said, there are plenty of other places that women can get NECESSARY health care (and I’m not talking condoms, birth control or abortions).
Back from my internet hiatus…
Hi Liz!,
I hope all is well with you. Happy Easter!
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Al,
I noticed from your profile that you work at Loras College; go DuHawks! As far as I know, Loras is still one of the few truly Catholic colleges around and I pray they will continue to be faithful to the Magisterium!
I believe, in a way, it is a blessing when Planned Parenthood opens in certain cities, especially in an historically Catholic city like Dubuque, because it gives us an opportunity to become active pro-lifers. Abortion is an evil that cannot be ignored.