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Colorado Planned Parenthood plans to close because it can’t find medical staff
Live Action News ^ | July 21, 2024 | Cassy Fiano-Chesser

Posted on 07/23/2024 12:09:01 AM PDT by Morgana

A Planned Parenthood facility in Durango, Colorado, has closed “temporarily, but indefinitely” after the abortion chain admitted it cannot find a nurse practitioner to commit abortions there.

The Durango Herald reported that services will cease on September 6th, due to an ongoing struggle to find a nurse practitioner (NP) to keep on staff. Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains CEO Adrienne Mansanares said it has been eight months since the facility had a staff NP, and “stopgap measures” are no longer working. Without someone on staff, it has had other Planned Parenthood abortionists cycling through the Durango facility from Nevada, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Colorado.

“We’ve increased our recruitment efforts,” Mansanares said. “But even if we do bring someone on, sometimes it’s three to six months of training before they can start seeing patients.”

Mansanares said the problem began with the COVID-19 pandemic, and though she said they are offering competitive pay and a large sign-on bonus, they aren’t getting any interest. “Across the country, we’re seeing these provider shortages in all areas of health care,” she said. “It’s just literally there are too many jobs and not enough providers.” A nearby Planned Parenthood facility in Farmington likewise has an unfilled job opening for a nurse practitioner, though it said that the facility will not close.

This is an interesting admission, because Colorado is an extremely pro-abortion state; while the media likes to blame pro-life laws and states for provider shortages and maternity care deserts, it seems the shortages aren’t limited to pro-life jurisdictions.

Mansanares blamed the struggle to find an NP on a “broken… national health care system” and “provider shortages across the country” as well as “a very divisive landscape for reproductive and sexual health care.”

Not mentioned by Mansanares or the Durango Herald is that very few doctors are willing to commit abortions to begin with. The vast majority of OB/GYNs are not abortionists, with just an estimated 23% committing abortions, and only 27% of medical residents planning to undergo abortion training as part of their education.

It’s likely for this exact reason that the abortion industry is pushing for non-physicians, like nurse practitioners, to be allowed to commit abortions. But as the Durango facility proves, even that tactic isn’t necessarily working… possibly because people who join the health care field to save lives may not all be interested in a job that requires the purposeful and intentional taking innocent lives every single day.


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: abortion; colorado; plannedparenthood; prolife; wellbye
That's a shame /sarc
1 posted on 07/23/2024 12:09:01 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Thanks for the good news.


2 posted on 07/23/2024 12:26:12 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Morgana

Wow! And Colorado is not exactly a “Bible belt” state. This is great!! 😇


3 posted on 07/23/2024 12:30:59 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Morgana

You don’t need PP for an abortion anymore. All you need is the abortion pill. Hell, you can go online have a tele consultation with a doctor and get the pills delivered to your residence.


4 posted on 07/23/2024 2:45:14 AM PDT by Baldwin
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To: Baldwin

That is true for early on, but not for later into the pregnancy.

It has always amazed me to hear that women will wait till months or even 9 months into a pregnancy to get an abortion

We have only scratched the surface on the psychological damage having an abortion has had on these women

I often wonder that the rabid response by so many is cover for their own guilt.

As long as abortion is kept seemingly “okay” then they have that to lean on, but regardless deep in their souls they know what they did and it eats at them


5 posted on 07/23/2024 3:57:22 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: blitz128

> It has always amazed me to hear that women will wait till months or even 9 months into a pregnancy to get an abortion<

Maybe it takes them that long to remember if they were raped. /s

I like that they used the term “commit abortion”. That’s seems very fitting.

EC


6 posted on 07/23/2024 5:32:05 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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To: Ex-Con777

Indeed, I commuted heart surgery… hummm


7 posted on 07/23/2024 5:36:56 AM PDT by blitz128
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