Abortion proponents declare “state of emergency” on vanishing access
A March 6 New York Times article, “Abortion law pushes Texas clinics to close doors,” included a slide show, “Last day for last abortion clinic in the Rio Grande,” referring to one of two Texas abortion mills that closed that day. Above and below are a few of those pictures. Click all photos and graphics to enlarge…
According to Think Progress, the number of abortion clinics is Texas is down to 19, from 44 as recently as 2011. By September 1 there could be as few as six abortion clinics in the state that meet the new ambulatory surgical center guidelines, hence a “state of emergency” for the lack of access to murder babies.
But the phenomenon of shuttering abortion clinics isn’t confined to the Lone Star State. As I wrote in a previous post, abortion clinics have been dropping like flies everywhere. Ninety-three clinics closed in 2013 alone, bringing the total number down to 759 from a high in 1991 of 2,176. According to Operation Rescue, an additional eight abortion clinics in four states have announced they are closing thus far in 2014.
A March 5 American Prospect article lamenting another recent pro-life tactic – stacking state boards of health with like-minded believers – included a rather amazing chart…
Disregard the fact that Guttmacher blames “anti-choice insurgents” for frightening abortionists out of the business. As even left-leaning Bloomberg News admitted, there are a number of factors – some self-imposed – but none of them fear.
Look instead at the changing abortion landscape. It’s quite something.
Pro-lifers and the rest of the world are slowly seeing the reverse of a perverse social experiment in likely the most watched, influential, and volatile pro-abortion country on the planet. Nowhere else is legalized abortion fought as much as it is here. What happens here on abortion is not only critical here but has a ripple effect.
Particularly in the last three years, pro-lifers have made significant gains throughout the states. See this Guttmacher chart, the title of which says it all: “More abortion restrictions were enacted in 2011-2013 than in the entire previous decade.”
The sudden “clinic crash” in Texas serves as a reminder that pro-lifers must stand ready to meet the need. Fortunately, there are four times as many pregnancy care centers in the U.S. as there are abortion clinics, and there is also a church in almost every neighborhood.
If it’s true that “nobody likes abortion, dammit,” which I hear all the time, this becomes the time for abortion supporters to join forces with pro-lifers to truly help pregnant mothers in crisis, rather than merely direct them to a place that does what they say they don’t like – because there are fewer and fewer of them.
Rather than complain that the drive to kill one’s child is becoming impossibly long and increasingly expensive, or is shifting to a scary place like Mexico, pro-choicers could work with pro-lifers to stop crisis pregnancies before they start.
We pretty much know exactly who stumbles into a crisis pregnancy. According to About.com, “The majority of women with unplanned pregnancies do not live with their partners or have committed relationships. These women realize that in all likelihood they will be raising their child as a single mother.”
Abortion proponents should join pro-lifers in encouraging single women to respect themselves more than to have sex if they are not ready to parent a baby, particularly with a creep who will abandon them if they get pregnant.
That’s how they could do the most good, expend meaningful, productive energy.
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.
Very encouraging news. We work and pray for decades, think we have lost when Obama is re-elected and suddenly, we are winning. Our winning of hearts and minds and incremental passing of state restrictions have been effective. Deo gratias.
And if the AHA folks had their way every single one of those clinics would STILL be open! Look at all the clinic closures…gee…guess incrementalism is saving lives after all.
Who needs some big political slogan sign on the wall in the recovery or procedure room after surgery? That is not found in a legitimate health care facility.
Closure means weeding out the bad apples. If they can’t survive the current focus on health and safety regulations that were properly vetted through the legislative process, they do not deserve to stay open.
MoJoanne, hadn’t hospitals been harassed over the years, abortions might still be performed under those stringent conditions, too. But, of course, the “prolife” hypocrisy sometimes does show itself.
They will be raising their child as a single mother if they CHOOSE to, and I respect that if they do their best to be a good mother, but like it seems to be a zillion other times, adoption is ignored here too. And if the woman chooses adoption, she can also choose the parent(s) who will adopt the baby, and they don’t even have to be a straight married couple! They can be a single person or a gay or lesbian couple as well.
i really cant stand all of you anti abortionist fools. there should be a signup sheet for all the people who want to pay for all these cracked out heroine b**tard children. you want them you pay for them you f***ing schmucks. i bet you’d all be singing a different toon then.
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The Guttmacher Institute really needs to learn that the term is pro-life, not anti-choice. No one will take them seriously if they can’t even gt the basic terminology right.
Considering how much the country has aged in the last 30 years, it should really be no surprise to anyone that the demand for abortion has declined. If you add on to that cultural shifts and changes in legislation, that change will only be accentuated, and that is exactly what this graphic shows.
In 1981, women from the pre-war generation were at the end of their fertile years, all Baby Boomer women (approximately 39.5 million) were in their fertile years, and the pre-Roe X-ers (there are approximately 41 million female Xers total) were beginning theirs. That’s a lot of women, many of whom had very liberal sexual attitudes.
Today, not only has pro-abort sentiment declined sharply, but so has the number of fertile women. The post-Roe Xers are in the declining years of their fertility, and Millenial women (approximately 38.5 million) are mostly in their fertile years, with the exception of the very youngest of that generation.
Demographics matter.
*all the numbers are the approximate totals for females in a given generation
Alec–
Thank you for you opinion that my husband should have been aborted, and I (as a result) deprived of motherhood.
Thank you smearing with a broad brush the lovely women, dear to me in my own life, who were forced into abortion by abusive parents and boyfriends. Of those women, several were physically injured by their terminations, and suffered reproductive problems as a result.
Clearly, you know precious little about the topic. Don’t take out frustration at your own ignorance on women who have been victimized and children who have overcome serious disadvantages in their early lives.
alec, thanks so much for demonstrating the genuine compassion for women that’s at the core of the pro-abortion movement.
Oh, wait.
The abortion clinics are closing and this is just wonderful news! One closed in Cleveland too with no fanfare but we ran Martin Ruddock out of his office. Hes now in MI but he wont last. He was working under filthy conditions. He was botching abortions to the point that women became sterile. He had violated numerous emergency contract agreements. They werent even taking vital signs prior to the procedures. CLOSED!
Folks,
Always keep Big Joe’s words of wisdom in mind when it comes to posters like alec.
Laugh at idiots, make fun of idiots, let them make fools of themselves, but NEVER argue with an idiot!
Hi Mary yes Im sure alecs comment will be deleted as soon as one of the mods sees it.
Mary and heather, could you help me with alec please? We need to see that he gets back to his padded cell safely.
Merit,
Abortion advocates promised women that legal abortion meant safety, cleanliness, professional staffing, and sterile technique. So what happened? BTW, your hospital argument doesn’t wash. Hospitals harassed? LOLLLL. If you want to know what fear is, take care of convicts from the worst prison in the state or out of control head injury victims. Never kept me from doing my job.
Several down, 751 left to go!
Pretty soon abortion will only be available in CA and NY
Watch the minority population in those states start to decline
Well, it’s already started in NY
Prax lolololol
wow Alec, you remind me of the bitter old men who escort at my local clinic. We were offering help to a young white woman and her black boyfriend when the clinic escort shooed them in and turned to us and said “Her’s wasn’t worth saving”…so much respect for women. And not racist at all…
Merit, define harassment, please.
Abortionists have ALWAYS fought any kind of regulation. BECAUSE THE BABIES MUST BE KILLED.
I no longer address merit and alec. they can both go fly a kite!
Hi Sydney M,
Your post reminds me of the racist arguments promoting the legalization of abortion that I heard years ago.
1. How would you feel if your wife was raped by a drunken Indian?
2. How would you feel if your daughter was raped by a black?
I remember reading years ago, and I’m sorry I don’t have a source, as to how a southern governor was encouraged to legalize abortion by a medical organization. Their argument: What about the white woman impregnated by the black rapist? No similar “concern” was ever expressed for the non white victims of white rapists.
Apparently being raped by a white man was far more desirable.
Unfortunately this had emotional appeal. It seems from your post some things haven’t changed.
Dr. Leroy Carhart is doing his best to make up the difference with all these closing clinics. He hasn’t slipped up like Dr. Gosnell yet. Oh, wait Dr. Gosnell was arrested for selling illegal pills not for the loss of life of Mrs. Mongar. Gee, Dr. Carhart, and others, make horrible errors such as Cristin Gilbert/Jennifer Morbell, etc but must continue to make money off of this surgery. What a business.
Jill, how about teaching young MEN to respect themselves and their partners?
Just FYI, as someone with a mental illness (major depression) & having experienced psychiatric hospitalizations to get well, I find this kind of humor about mental illness & “padded cells” to be stigmatizing & hurtful. And as a mental health advocate this concerns me because stigma discourages individuals from seeking treatment or sharing their experience. Please try to refrain from such jokes in the future.
Oh but Mary didnt you know only black men rape? Lol. Ted Bundy comes to mind Ariel Castro was hispanic. BUT thats a favorite of borts!!!
I like it when phillymiss says borts so I stole her material:)
Hi heather,
A few years back a former poster, Pretty in Pink, posted links that showed how Native American women were more likely to be victims of white rapists than native or black. However, as we have seen, being the victim of a white rapist isn’t quite as bad. (sarcasm alert)
My sincere apologies, Ladybug. I can see where you are coming from and I will try my best to be more careful in the future.
There was no intent on my part to make fun of the mentally ill. Alec sounded very angry not mentally ill to me and that is why I made the joke. Everyone who swears and is angry is not necessarily also mentally ill. Mary thought he sounded like an idiot and every idiot is also not mentally ill. Maybe Alec was on drugs or was drinking when he posted and this also would not necessarily mean he is mentally ill. Safe time-out areas are not just used for those struggling with mental illnesses.
Please accept my apologies.
I like phillymiss’s use of ‘borts too, heather!
Hi prax i apologize for laughing also but we need to take him somewhere. Maybe back to his or her parents cuz they sound about 12
The spin over at Think Progress and the other pro-abortion sources is this: “A few radical pro-life activists and their evil Republican overlords have managed to impose this oppression against women.”
The reality is that public sentiment has turned against the abortion industry (for a variety of reasons that we could have fun listing).
Pro-life legislation passed through state legislatures in the usual way (that is, representation of voters by candidates who pledged to support pro-life reforms) — and there is no sign that voters intend to punish the legislators who passed these reforms.
It’s always good news when killing centres close. I have an issue with you calling men who don’t want their unborn children ”creeps” when you have no such harsh name-calling for women who don’t want their babies and actually choose to kill them.
Marlon its not a man thing only. Women are called the s word and tra*ps.
Abortion cannot undo a rape.
There are many good people who had been conceived in rape and were either raised by the mother’s family or put up for adoption.
The best deterrent against rape is widespread use of concealed carry and respect for the Second Amendment. If a potential rapist knows that any one of his potential victims might be carrying a gun, he will be deterred.