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Julie Burkhart
Posted on 06/21/2022 5:45:30 AM PDT by Morgana
When Julie Burkhart learned about the Supreme Court draft opinion that would end abortion protections, she let out an involuntary shriek from her airplane seat. “Because it felt like such a gut punch,” Burkhart said. “And then after that, getting into the opinion and reading that — it was chilling.”
Burkhart, who lives in Colorado, has long been at the center of the abortion access battle, one that is deepening in the Mountain West and across the nation. She's worked to expand access to reproductive rights for decades. Her mentor Dr. George Tiller, an abortion provider in Wichita, Kan., was murdered by an anti-abortion extremist in 2009.
Tiller’s death, and trends limiting abortion access nationwide, compelled Burkhart to place a greater focus on what she calls “abortion deserts.”
Four years after Tiller’s death, Burkhart opened an abortion clinic in his former Wichita location, making it the only place to obtain an abortion within 200 miles.
Today, she's focused on another abortion desert — Wyoming, where there is just one provider in the entire state. Women’s Health and Family Care is located in Jackson, the exclusive mountain town in the far northwest corner of the state. It only offers medication abortions up to 10 weeks gestation.
Burkhart has had Wyoming on her radar for years, and little has changed in terms of its abortion resources. So her nonprofit, Wellspring Health Access, is opening the state’s only surgical abortion clinic this summer in Casper, a central Wyoming town of roughly 60,000 people. And she is moving forward despite protesters congregating outside the clinic each week, despite an act of suspected arson, and despite a new trigger law signed into law by Gov. Mark Gordon in March that will outlaw most abortions if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
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“that would end abortion protections”
Now THAT is some twisted phrasing.
Certainly ain’t protecting the precious child, the confused and frightened mom, nor the disregarded dad.
Women who want to kill their unborn babies must trudge in sub-zero blizzards in the driving snow up to their thighs in Donner Pass...to get to the promised land of abortions on the other side.
Good gosh.
Iirc Tiller coached a kids baseball team in wichita.
But that was a long time ago
Killing field deserts.
Holocaust deserts.
Rape deserts.
So sad.
Someone that had George Tiller as their mentor, shrieking at the news - that news is music to righteous ears.
George Tiller was a monster whose many acolytes abused the judicial system in Kansas. Justice delayed is one thing, but justice denied and subverted usually comes to a bad end - and in Tiller’s case, justice subverted finally drove a fanatic over the line and he choked out his life laying in dirty gravel parking lot.
Don’t shed any tears. Insane millionaires will pay for women to go get an abortion. Or insane joe will make the taxpayers pay for the abortion, the plane ticket, the hotel room, AND the meals.
I’m sure this evil bich idolized Kermit Gosnell.
“I sure your safety”
Wow, how tone deaf can you be? Somebody’s safety is threatened and it isn’t the so-called adults involved.
Gee. Hope nuthin happens to her like it did to her old boss.
She's a piece of work for sure.
LOL! When you’re taking the time to make a fancy memorial plaque, you might want to double-check your spelling. What a dingbat.
More like the living babies gardenland....
Now that was funny. 🙂
Maybe they are insuring their safety by taking out an insurance policy in their name. Safety insurance. LOL.
An involuntary shriek.
A silent scream?
Looking at her pic, wouldn't that reaction be more aptly described as a porcine squeal?
This is a woman who learned her trade from Killer Tiller.
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