Posted on 03/05/2016 7:28:04 PM PST by Morgana
Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments for Whole Women’s Health vs. Hellerstedt. The case revolves around whether or not ambulatory surgical center regulations for abortion centers and hospital admitting privileges for abortionists creates an undue burden. The claim has been made that over 20 Texas abortion facilities closed, directly because of H.B. 2, and abortion activists have taken up the phrase “Stop the Sham.” It’s because of pro-lifers and their anti-abortion laws that abortion centers are closing, they say. But if they want to know the real reason so many are closing, they’ll need to look in their own backyard.
It turns out that Planned Parenthood’s ‘mega-clinics’ may be to blame…
The Wall Street Journal reports:
In another example of adverse conditions for many clinics, America’s largest abortion network, Planned Parenthood, has been steadily eating up market share. In 1993 fewer than 10% of U.S. abortions were done in Planned Parenthood facilities. By 2011 Planned Parenthood’s total market share had increased to 32%. This expansion can easily be attributed to the building of mega-clinics. In Houston in 2010, Planned Parenthood built the largest administrative and medical abortion facility in the nation, stating that it sought to reach 30,000 more clients annually.
This is merely one of 21 mega-clinics—typically able to see more than 17,000 patients a year, versus 5,000 in an average clinic—Planned Parenthood has opened or planned nationally since 2004. Three of these were in Texas, including two that opened after the passage of the 2013 bill that is the subject of litigation. This increased capacity affects the competition no less than when a Lowe’s or Home Depot moves into an area and the local hardware store closes, or when locally run stores are unable to compete with national box-store giants like Wal-Mart.
The co-founder of a clinic that closed in Washington state in 2010 said, “We would not be closing today if Planned Parenthood had not started providing abortion services in the same town.” A June 23, 2008, article in The Wall Street Journal quoted clinic operator Amy Hagstrom Miller saying “This is not the Planned Parenthood we all grew up with . . . they now have more of a business approach, much more aggressive.” Ms. Hagstrom Miller, whose network of Whole Women’s Health clinics is now the plaintiff in the case against Texas that the Supreme Court will hear this week, told the Journal back then that Planned Parenthood “put local independent businesses in a tough situation.”
So Planned Parenthood moves in, and thanks to their gigantic abortion wonderland ‘mega-clinics,’ smaller abortion centers get put out of business because they just can’t compete. Abortion advocates are running around shouting about #StopTheSham, but the simple truth of the matter is that it simply comes down to supply and demand.
Would taking away the increased regulations really make a difference for these abortion facilities being shuttered? Not if Planned Parenthood kept moving in with their ‘mega-clinics,’ no. As pointed out above, these facilities can serve over triple the number of patients that smaller ones can. That alone creates a problem. And there isn’t any actual evidence proving that the regulations are what put the abortion centers out of business – something that, during the arguments, attorney Stephanie Toti was forced to admit, saying that only the timing linked the regulations and the facility closures.
As Live Action contributor Christina Marie Bennett pointed out, these regulations aren’t a sham, but are necessary and save lives. We have nothing whatsoever to link the closure of abortion centers in Texas to H.B. 2, but we do have plenty of evidence linking Planned Parenthood to the closures.
So when will the #StopTheSham crowd start up a #StopPlannedParenthood rallying cry?
More islamo and illegals that want to take over America?
The REAL sham is justifying murdering God's most vulnerable babies.
Muslims all over the world deprecate abortion. So, for them abortion is not only illegal, it's immoral.
The illegals from Mexico are against abortion as well.
SO the Muslims and illegals (from Mexico) have nothing to do with the American-abortion-on-demand, in theory AND practice.
Muslims strap bombs on their kids and send them in for jihad! That is what, 45th or 66th trimester abortion?
Muslims also use their kids as human shields during war.
Yea I’d say they don’t have abortion they need those kids to die for them later.
it’s a dying business????
Just a guess...
Can’t make a killin???
Just another guess...
So these laws requiring admitting privileges and ultrasound and the like could be pushed by PP to kill competition? I’d love to know how to follow the money on that one.
Also, it’s a declining market. Down by half in 25 years.
“So these laws requiring admitting privileges and ultrasound and the like could be pushed by PP to kill competition?”
From what I have read no. There are some PP’s that don’t have admitting privilages and as for ultrasound even PP hates it when a woman sees that because they know she will chose the baby.
With your attitude, do you actually call yourself a Christian?
INTERESTING. To what do you or the writers attribute this decline in abortions?
I always wondered why there were any abortions since ALL birth control stuff was/is FREE.
Scrape-the-Wall-Mart?
No idea.
Speculation - the right to life movement has had SOME effect in cultural change.
The abortionists want their rusty coathangers protected by special laws.
I would like to think that your speculation is correct.
I’m stating facts. Muslims do this on a daily basis, and have been doing it. How is it “pro life” for muslims to strap bombs on their babies and blow up Jews? Or put their 12 year old son in a car loaded with bombs and have him drive into the enemy’s camp in Iraq?
If they have a war to fight then the adults need to fight it but don’t have babies and children fight it for them.
Cultural change ...
A lot of my co-workers are 20-somethings. And for some reason they just don’t get married. They stay together for years and sometimes ahve more than one child but never get married.
I don’t know if it’s because they are afraid to marry, or can’t afford a lavish wedding.
At any rate the peeps I work with seem to accept single parenthood as part of life. At one time I counted the kids among my group of 4 to 5 people ... out of 14 children among us, only mine were born to married parents.
Abortion is critically necessary because of birth control...failing.
Gotta get rid of the unwanted kid, like the unwanted ex?
Out of necessity, innate biological imperatives return.
In order to get a man to stay, young females are withholding sex until conditions are met. Old ways seem to have renaissance. Shame never really left. A degree of chivalry now required of men. Women want to be put back on that pedestal. Fish found to need bicycles after all.
Russell Wilson.
Limits on number of children government will pay for.
Hook-up culture found to be not consequence free, for both genders, all ages. Value of chastity, virginity rediscovered. Oral sex is sex again. Order being chosen over chaos. There’s never been a third way.
Ultra-sound makes an actual baby out of a zygote, a “fetus”.
Pro-life always has been the moral high-ground.
Sarah Palin.
Liberalism in general, being questioned by young people. The young rebel naturally, and liberalism is now “the establishment”.
The pendulum is swinging....
That isn't a good sign for our culture. They have FORGOTTEN who their Maker is and that it is He to whom we owe our lives.
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