Planned Parenthood announces 6 closures; another sued for forced botch
From Wisconsin came welcome news this week that four Planned Parenthood clinics will soon close. From Huffington Post, February 18:
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin announced the closure of four family planning health centers on Monday as a result of the state legislature’s elimination of funding to the health care provider.
The clinics in Beaver Dam, Johnson Creek, Chippewa Falls and Shawano, which serve approximately 2,000 patients, will close between April and July of this year.
These closures will bring the total of Planned Parenthood clinics in the Badger State down to 23, three of which commit abortions. PPWIs 2010 annual report listed no adoption or prenatal referrals or services but that it did kill 4,827 babies, 62% of Wisconsin’s total number of abortions. There will now be three less feeders.
In Iowa, two Planned Parenthood clinics have announced they are shutting their doors. According to Omaha.com, February 21:
Spokeswoman Shelby Cloke said that the clinic in Spencer will close and that the Fort Madison clinic operations will be consolidated with Keokuk and Burlington clinics on March 15.
The Spencer mill commits abortions. Thirteen of Iowa’s remaining 18 PPs will continue to murder children.
I spoke with Jim Sedlak of American Life League this morning. ALL tracks the number of nationwide Planned Parenthoods. The following chart will soon be updated, Jim told me, to reflect the latest figures. At the end of January 2013 there were 730 PPs remaining, from a high of 938 in 1995 – PP’s lowest number of clinics in 30 years, since 1983.
Every PP that closes saves lives. In addition, each closure gives PP that much less clout, and, as Jim pointed out, another congressman without a PP in his or her district to wield political pressure.
Finally, Live Action News posted a tragic story on January 20 that was picked up on Drudge of a mother who is suing Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains in Denver for a forced abortion that was also botched.
This will not go down as a good week for Planned Parenthood, deservedly so.
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.
Does anyone know if the Keokuk and Burlington, IA locations perform abortions?
Onward WI!!
Kel – Burlington commits RU-486 abortions, and Keokuk refers for abortions.
Thank you God! And for those low income women who need pap smears, I am pretty sure there are community health centers that can help them out.
Kel – Burlington commits RU-486 abortions, and Keokuk refers for abortions.
Ok, thanks.
Right on, Walker and Kleefisch!
“Every PP that closes saves lives.” Who really knows? The women may just move on to another clinic. That’s what happens with women in big cities during Operation Rescue heydays. If one clinic was closed, they’d wait a week or go to another one that may have had an opening.
Who really knows? Some of us know, because women tell us that their children are alive today because of both pro-life counselors and/or clinic closures. We may not be able to save all of them, but it’s better than just throwing our hands up and letting the abortionists keep on killing.
The battle for Wisconsin continues. Libs are trying everything they can to undermine Walker’s reforms. Now they are throwing millions behind an effort to elect an activist supreme court judge to tilt the court against Walker. Without Walker and the Repub majority the reduced funding of Planned Parenthood and the babies lives that will be saved by the closing of the Planned Parenthood clinics would not have happened. The libs are livid in their rage even as babies lives are being saved…if that does not capture the nature of the battle nothing will.
Those who say there is no difference between Dems and Repubs need look no further than the debt ridden state of Illinois and the balanced budget state of Wisconsin immediately to the north. The same is true for Republican dominated Indiana to the east of Illinois. And now Illinois is looking to enshrine gay relationships as “marriage”. Something tells me that under Repub Govenors Walker and Pence that is not about to happen in their states as long as the people have the sense to keep them in office.
When Dems can’t cheat to win an election, they try recalls. When they can’t manipulate (2+) elections and all else fails, get judges to legislate from the bench for them.