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Posted on 09/11/2002 9:50:38 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe
A Lawrence abortion clinic — one of a handful in Kansas — has gone out of business.
"We just don't have the funds to keep functioning. We've run up as much debt as we could manage. Essentially, we don't have operating capital at all," said Dr. Kristin Neuhaus, who had operated a clinic in Lawrence since 1997.
The last few items still in the office suite at 205 W. Eighth St. were to be removed today. Neuhaus said she also would have completed follow-up visits with patients by the end of the day.
Abortion opponents said they were delighted the clinic had closed.
"That's the best news I ever heard," said Mary Kay Culp, a spokeswoman for Kansans for Life, the state's leading anti-abortion group.
Neuhaus said the clinic fell about $100,000 in debt, never having recovered financially from several weeks of inactivity in 2001. The clinic suspended business then after the Kansas Board of Healing Arts began investigating the clinic's record keeping and an allegation Neuhaus performed an abortion on a patient who had withdrawn consent for the procedure.
That allegation was never substantiated, and Neuhaus took corrective measures that satisfied board concerns about record- keeping and administration of sedatives.
"Her closing is certainly not connected to anything we've done that I'm aware of," said Mark Stafford, general counsel for the Board of Healing Arts.
But Neuhaus said the clinic never bounced back from losses incurred during the 2001 shutdown.
"We had no income for six weeks, which is over 10 percent of the year, and then the weeks following that we had 25 percent loss for the rest of the year," Neuhaus said.
Meanwhile, operating costs continued to rise, the doctor said.
Over the years, Neuhaus has been vilified by mainstream abortion opponents and sometimes threatened by anti-abortion extremists. Her clinic was a regular stop for anti-abortion demonstrators.
Neuhaus said she often kept an automatic pistol handy in her office in case she needed to protect herself, her patients or employees.
"The security necessary is something on the level of a paramilitary operation," Neuhaus said. "I kept myself as isolated as possible."
News of the clinic's closing moved Culp to harsh words.
"Neuhaus has been the poster child for the abortion industry's stranglehold on medicine and its so-called state regulators," the Kansans for Life spokeswoman said. "All along, Neuhaus whined about her impoverished financial condition and undocumented threats of violence. The real violence has been perpetrated on the dead children and shoddily treated women who paid Neuhaus' fees. Thank God she is closed."
Kansas Republicans have nominated conservative, anti-abortion candidates to run for governor and attorney general. Neuhaus said she also worried her business would become even less tenable if one or both candidates were elected.
When it comes to abortion, Neuhaus said, "the political environment in Kansas is just dreadful, just barely better than Afghanistan."
Neuhaus said she would be disappointed if abortion opponents hailed the clinic's closing as a victory for their movement.
"To me they're insignificant," she said. "I can't say anything about them that would be repeatable in the paper. They're a bunch of hypocrites. I'm sure many of them have had abortions or have relatives who have had abortions."
There are two remaining abortion clinics in Wichita and four in the Kansas City metro area, Neuhaus said.
Riiight, because just like cheating on your spouse and lying under oath, EVERYBODY DOES IT! Right?!
What happened to the "Hatred is not a family value" bumper sticker slogan these 'compassionate' liberals flippantly use?
For those born without the empathy gene, you need to understand that abortion does not make you unpregnant, it makes you the mother of a dead baby.
History will judge this American halocaust harshly. A generation from now people will ask many of the same questions about our society as they do about Germany's citizens during Hitler's halocaust.
Infanticide sucks!
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Maybe I'm issing something but wouldn't an "automatic pistol" be what was called a "machine-pistol" during WWII?
I wonder if they may not have meant "semi-automatic pistol" ... but, hey, since the doctor AND the reporter are probably anti-gun to boot, they most likely don't know the difference.
Yes. Maybe some of them had relatives who had abortions---botched abortions.
RAGING INFECTION KILLS DADE ABORTION PATIENT
Carolina Gutierrez died Monday, seven weeks after she began fighting a raging infection her lawyers say started with a botched abortion at a Little Havana storefront clinic.The 21-year-old Miami woman leaves behind two small children and a husband....
According to a study by the U. S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, the risk of uterine perforation is one in 500 abortions.
LF, I just saw this in the Kansas City Star and was going to post it, when fsf flagged me to your's. Thanks for the post.
"First good thing to happen to Lawrence since Quantrill taught them a lesson."
Quantrill was a proslavery Democrat, dumbass.
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