Wichita abortion/sex change clinic marks one year anniversary with death count
South Wind Women’s Center, housed in the Wichita abortion clinic formerly operated by murdered late-term abortionist George Tiller, just marked its one-year anniversary by announcing how many babies it had killed since opening. An article strangely removed from the Wichita Eagle’s website (and from which all other news sources are quoting), but cached on the abortion mill’s website, shares the exciting news:
South Wind Women’s Center says it provided about 1,200 abortions in its first year…..
No clinic offered abortions in Wichita after Tiller died until South Wind opened.
South Wind said it has seen a total of about 1,500 patients for reproductive care, including abortions up to 14 weeks. Patients have come from across the state and from a few other states, such as Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.
Patient numbers are “right in line with our projections,” said Julie Burkhart [pictured above], founder of Trust Women, which raised money to open the clinic April 3, 2013. “I feel, of course, positive about that. We have women coming to see us.”
Good news, the clinic is still in the red:
The clinic is still paying off debt from opening, she said, “but the numbers are on track, financially on track.”
Maybe that is why Burkhart has opened another funding stream, sex change hormone therapy…
I was always curious why one of South Wind’s abortionists, Cheryl Chastine, is so obsessed with the transgender issue. (Search “trans” on her Twitter feed for an idea.) Now I know.
One of South Wind’s branding problems, though, is it calls itself a “women’s” center, a gender reference the transgender community doesn’t like (the reason why you will lately see abortion proponents using the term “pregnant people” rather than “pregnant women.” Pro-lifers should use the term “pregnant mothers.”) This is surely why it has given itself an additional name, which shows up nowhere on Google, as if it simply decided to also call itself Wichita Medical Center, PA, their corporate identity.
Back to abortionists, South Wind is still relying on circuit riders, the very nature of which nullifies any possibility of a “doctor-patient relationship,” which abortion proponents love to tout. And circuit riders are much more costly. It takes at least one abortion to pay just for their travel expenses. From the ghost Wichita Eagle story:
South Wind is flying in doctors to provide abortion care. It won’t name those doctors because of Tiller’s death. A doctor who helped open the clinic left in May, returning to her practice.
Paying for doctors to travel to Wichita “is not the situation we would like to have,” Burkhart said. “I do think in time we will find more people in this region who are willing to come forward.”
[HT on sex change treatment: Eric Scheidler of Pro-Life Action League; top and bottom photos via Wichita Eagle; signage photos via AbortionWiki and RH Reality Check]
From the article:Good news, the clinic is still in the red: The clinic is still paying off debt from opening, she said, “but the numbers are on track, financially on track.”
This is not good news for life. If they are profitable enough to make payments on their start-up debt, then they are a successful operation. It is rare to have the start-up loans paid off in the first year. They are boasting that they are already profitable, and hope to reap obscene cash flows in the near future.
Planned Parenthood does not boast like this. PP knows that they are exploiting poor and desperate women and gouging MedicAid programs. And so they lie about their performance, such as insisting that abortion is only 3% of their services.
South Wind seems different. They boast of their abortion success because they genuinely believe that they are doing a good work for the four-state area — and they believe that the world appreciates their good work. They are not afraid, like PP is. Of course, they may not doing anything illegal.
Another reason for their boasting: They want to lure abortionists to partner up and come to live in Wichita. They hope the promise of huge cash profits will save them the expense of flying in the circuit riders.
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I wonder if they “trust” women. For profit.
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abortion “care” – now THERE’S an oxymoron !
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Okay, this is blowing my mind. I look at her twitter account but I didn’t get the searching for trans. Is she saying she is a transgender whatever. We do know that the abortion industry is aligning itself with the gay agenda big time. Advertising how many abortions…like a hamburger joint advertising over 1 MM burgers sold! How proud they are.
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The abortion industry isn’t allying itself with “the gay agenda”, they are just both leftist causes so there’s some overlap in activism I believe. And I’m sure people want to make money of transgender people just like they make money off of abortions. Sex changes are expensive, I bet they make bank. I think the transgender stuff is quite irrelevant to the fact thousands of babies get killed in that place.
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Susie, do you have the “find” option on your computer?
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Does the name of this clinic sound like a euphemism for flatulence to anyone else?
Bueller?
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Planned Parenthood does not boast like this. PP knows that they are exploiting poor and desperate women and gouging MedicAid programs. And so they lie about their performance, such as insisting that abortion is only 3% of their services. – PP is not a profit-oriented organisation. Whatever they receive or make is spent on providing services – particularly for poor and desperate women. They don’t lie about their performance.
abortion “care” – now THERE’S an oxymoron ! – what, you don’t think abortions should be carried out with care?
There isn’t a vast gulf between fighting for the equal rights and freedoms of people of all sexual orientations and the reproductive rights and freedoms of women.
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Staffed by circuit riders? Now that’s quality patient care.
In no other area of medicine would this be considered an acceptable standard of patient care.
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Try living in a rural area with limited local medical facilities Mary. ‘circuit riders’ in all the specialist fields.
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Reality,
Get your facts straight. Many rural hospitals, including some near me, have surgeons and specialists who are affiliated with larger facilities and clinics in nearby cities. These physicians are credentialled, have admitting privileges at these local as well as more advanced care facilities, and follow through with their patients from pre operative or ER admission, to post discharge follow up.
They or an associate are available for emergency situations should the patient develop complications.
Hardly “circuit riders”.
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Well that’s great for you Mary but it’s not the situation that I have dealt with as a patient.
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No its not great for me, its how its done.
So tell me, did some physician perform a surgical procedure on you, leave the state and leave you with no one to call in the event of an emergency and with no follow up care?
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Mary, please stop feeding the troll.
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Visiting specialists would do consults. On another trip they would conduct surgery. You were then left in the care of the two local medical practitioners. If something went wrong you would be transported to the nearest medical establishment with the required facilities. When my then wife had an issue she was taken by ambulance to a hospital about 60 miles away where that hospital’s specialist did what was needed. The ‘circuit rider’ specialist did not do any work at that hospital. He was seen again at our small local hospital for a follow-up consult some time later (the problem my then wife had was not of his making).
Maybe if the anti-choice movement and dishonest anti-choice politicians didn’t do what they do then ‘circuit riders’ wouldn’t be required. Especially in a clinic whose former doctor has been murdered.
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Reality,
Hardly circuit riders. These physicians perform a valuable service that enables people to stay in their own communities as much as possible, near family and friends. They don’t have to leave for the most routine surgery. The also bring in much needed revenue to maintain hospital in the community.
If they performed consultations and surgery then they were credentialled and had privileges at that rural hospital. Arrangements had been made for follow up care with qualified associates who would have access to your records, would know about you, and could contact the specialists if necessary. A far cry from skipping the state and leaving the patient to fend for themselves.
Your wife had to be transported to a facility for a problem not of the specialist’s making. Again, not an unusual occurence to transport patients for specialized care. Sometimes even in our city with all its medical capabilities, has to transport by helicopter or ambulance to a specialized care center in another city. Arrangements are made by the physician and hospital. Patients are not just dumped on someone else to care for.
I am sorry to hear of your former wife’s medical issues and hope she had an uneventul recovery.
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These physicians perform a valuable service that enables people to stay in their own communities as much as possible, near family and friends. They don’t have to leave for the most routine surgery. – just like those who perform abortions when local doctors have been scared off or restricted by malicious regulations.
Thank you, it was minor and she was fine.
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“just like those who perform abortions when local doctors have been scared off or restricted by malicious regulations.”
Thanks for the hearty laugh “reality.” You do realize that abortion “clinics” are the least regulated in comparison to other services across this land. Jump over to the thread posted before this one or just look up this info on-line. You try so hard to twist the truth but the facts are not on your side.
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Feeding trolls
Arguing with fools
Giving medicine to the dead
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It’s ok MoJoanne, I think I can still help some of them. I feel it’s worth the effort :-)
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I think eventually the clinic may partner with gay adoptions:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dont-abort-let-a-gay-couple-adopt/182030105161566
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Merit if that’s true that’s a good thing.
But do you honestly believe that an abortion clinic would do much referring for adoption?? Abortion is far more lucrative.
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Alexandra,
THANK YOU!! I needed that comic relief.
South Wind.
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”I feel it’s worth the effort”
I am waiting “reality” for you to post any EVIDENCE of malicious regulation of abortion “clinics.” I won’t hold my breath though :)
A troll you are….
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LibertyBelle, even at $600 per procedure, abortion is hardly more lucrative. Adoptions can average $30,000 apiece. And, many clinics are involved with adoptions now. But the fact that gay couples are adopting irks many prolifers.
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No, true prolifers want the baby born. Period. Having the baby survive, instead of murdered, is ALWAYS preferable.
What irks us is you insisting that killing your child is the pathway to liberation.
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How many adoptions has South Wind helped women choose?
Hmmmmm. Do they only offer killing then?
And Courtnay. ALWAYS.
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Since you still appear to be breathing “thomas r.”, I’ll assume that you are as well aware of TRAP laws as everyone else is.
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I fear that Merit has a point.
Most adoption services offer genuine care for the mother and child and adoptive parents. Thus, they try to place the child in a carefully vetted, safe and natural home.
But suppose a business doesn’t care about children, and routinely kills them? They would be glad to take large money, assisting a mercenary womb to produce a child that will be “adopted” (purchased) by a same-sex or trans-sex couple.
Trafficking in babies, killing babies. Same attitude.
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Merit, what we’re concerned about is the killing of unborn babies. Most of us just want those babies to live and the mamas to live and be healthy and help her bring life into the world. We want the mamas to rise above the circumstances and be strong and give life to the child her body is sheltering and growing despite her hard or inconvenient circumstances.
Now that is empowerment. Telling a woman she *can* do it. She has the strength to rise above whatever circumstances are keeping her down and might make it impossible to care for a baby.
So if the baby is adopted by a same sex couple? Better than a dead baby on all counts!
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Indeed.
LIFE. Parenting by the mother with help. Parenting with the father of child. Parenting within the safety of a maternity home, access to parenting classes and things (for FREE) that a baby and mommy need at a Pregnancy Resource Center.
Putting a child up for adoption.
These are choices a child can live with.
These are choices a mother can live with.
Ahh. LIFE. Such a beautiful choice.
Cue the extreme stories. yawn
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“Since you still appear to be breathing “thomas r.”, I’ll assume that you are as well aware of TRAP laws as everyone else is.”
“reality” here’s some information to refresh your understanding of “TRAP” laws:
RvW permitted states to limit access and thus states are w/in their LEGAL rights per that law to regulate clinics based on whatever health-code standards their health depts have on the books and they have taken advantage of this legal right.
You are essentially disqualifying what RvW allowed the states to do. If it works for pro-aborts fine but if gives rights to pro-life NOOOO. Huh??? Stop crying like a baby and accept that states CAN regulate abortion “clinics” and will do so based on how these “clinics” operate.
I also need to remind you of the new twist pro-aborts hero GOSNELL put on these regulations. Does your understanding of “TRAP” apply to such circumstances? My bad, probably not given how you want abortion “clinics” to operate w/o any oversight NO MATTER HOW SENSIBLE. But no worries – Gosnell spurred federal and state bills to more strictly regulate abortion “clinics.” Take it up with the feds then….
“TRAP” is a term dreamed up by the pro-abortion lobby and the attempt is made by the pro-aborts to make it a part of our vernacular. No such luck.
This term does not represent the realities of regulatory issues on abortion “clinics” and the true reasons for imposing these regulations. You know this and your camp is fully aware of this too…..
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“They would be glad to take large money, assisting a mercenary womb to produce a child that will be “adopted” (purchased) by a same-sex or trans-sex couple.”
This is literally, exactly, what some “legit” adoption agencies do, whether they adopt to straight couples or not. So sick of this bias. The adoption industry has a long, dirty history that people gloss over all the time and many of them make a lot of money off of it. There have been cases of kidnapped children from other children being adopted to US couples as “orphans” and in some cases unscrupulous adoption agencies paying parents in impoverished countries to give their children up (which the children often think is temporary and they get a nasty shock). People should research the adoption industry some more. White babies cost 20K to 50K to adopt while black and hispanic babies are much, much cheaper (sometimes as low as 3K). I think that speaks to some major issues, baby buying more than “adopting”.
Of course, I’d rather have unscrupulous adoption agencies than abortion clinics, because at least the children get to be alive. Doesn’t mean that it’s right though.
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Yeah I’ve heard of that too. And that’s adoption, not the sketchy “rent a womb” that goes on with surrogate mothers in foreign countries in general.
There are a ton of issues surrounding babies. We’ve made them a commodity. it’s so heartbreaking.
It’s the flip side to abortion, really. If babies are a commodity to be bought/sold, who is to say you can’t just discard one when it shows up when you weren’t ready? Whooops. Here let us fix that for ya. And when you’re ready for another one, we’ve got a ton of designer babies for purchase. Just let us know when you’re ready.
It’s sick.
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This term does not represent the realities of regulatory issues on abortion “clinics” and the true reasons for imposing these regulations. - yes it does. You know this and your camp is fully aware of this too…..
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Is that all you got “reality?” Nothing of substance as in my other paragraphs. You won’t touch Gosnell???? You lost this argument, face it :)
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Is that all you got “reality?” – I find the truth to be all that is required “thomas r.”. There is a vast difference between the level and standard of regulations required to prevent cases such as gosnell and what is taking place in some states. Most of the recent regulatory demands in the predictable states by the predictable people are well beyond that because their intent is to limit or deny womens reproductive rights rather than ‘protect women’. That is why they are called TRAP laws and you know it.
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It does not matter to the pro-aborts what type of restrictions are being implemented by individual states. You cry foul with any attempt to hold abortion “clinics” and providers to any reasonable standards at all.
The fact remains that citizens previously on the fence regarding abortions, are now thanks to Gosnell and pro-life exposes of substandard levels of care in majority of abortion “clinics,” waking up. This was a wake up call for the feds as well. The post-Gosnell federal and state bills to even more strictly regulate abortion “clinics” speak to that. TRAP laws are on shaky grounds….
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You cry foul with any attempt to hold abortion “clinics” and providers to any reasonable standards at all – no, we cry foul at a despotic agenda masquerading as ‘protecting women’.
TRAP laws are on shaky grounds…. – very.
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http://www.redstate.com/2014/04/10/new-york-s-abortion-business-operates-without-regulation/
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We cry foul at the despotic pro-abortion agenda masquerading as ‘protecting women.’
Thank you for being honest in acknowledging the reality that TRAP laws are on very shaky grounds :)
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Not at all Thomas R., thank you for recognising that they are so, and that they will thus be overturned, given their inherent dishonesty.
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Well, LibertyBelle, how would Catholic Charities approach the gay adoption thing?
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You must not be able to read “reality.” TRAP laws are cited by pro-aborts abusively and used to counteract all attempts to reasonably regulate abortion “clinics.” You bring up TRAP into every conversation about regulatory attempts. What does that say about that “inherent dishonesty” term you are also fond of throwing around?
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What is it that you think I can’t read “thomas r.”?
What does that say about that “inherent dishonesty” term you are also fond of throwing around? – it says that the term ‘inherent dishonesty’ applies to TRAP laws which abusively regulate abortion clinics with the sole intent of preventing women from accessing their repoductive rights and freedoms, not for ‘women’s safety’, that’s what it says.
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Well, LibertyBelle, how would Catholic Charities approach the gay adoption thing?
I don’t know what Catholic Charities would do, but I can guess. However, another organization that cooperates with states in placing children for adoption put it fairly clearly. They noted that there are many people seeking to adopt newborns. In order to place children, the organization evaluates the families based on a series of criteria. The organization representative explained that based on that criteria gay couples have yet to score high enough to end up with babies. The criteria were set long before the gay issue gained much attention. Bottom line, there are many really good candidate families willing to adopt, so in fairness to the children, those families get the newborns and gay couples don’t.
Only a small fraction of people are gay, of those only a tiny fraction want to adopt. So, normal families wanting to adopt outnumber gays wanting to adopt that gays need some way to tip the scale. It is kind of like singles trying to adopt. It is harder because they have less to offer. A single can’t offer a home with a mother and a father, and gays can’t either.
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Obviously clinics are not being properly regulated. Just look at Gosnell. Just a cursory inspection closed him down. It was that egregious. Abortion clinics are just plain ignored. And when they have to meet even really minimum standards, idiots raise the hue and cry about access. Access to what? Back alley conditions? The idiots don’t mind that women were dying due to illegal abortions just like they don’t mind women dying from legal abortions. They just want more “unplanned” babies to die.
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