Posted on 08/17/2024 8:35:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A couple weeks ago there was some surprising news out of New York. Planned Parenthood announced it would stop doing late-term abortions (those after 20 weeks) and also planned to close four clinics in the state. The problem in New York wasn't the legality of their business, it was the profitability. PP's president wrote in an opinion piece that because of inflation they were in trouble unless the state started directing more public money their way.
Today, the NY Times published a follow-up in the business section which makes the case that the business of abortion is not going well almost anywhere you look around the country. The story recounts the experience of a clinic in Washington DC which tried to expand in the Los Angeles area. It didn't go well.
The move to California was not an easy one. Dr. Reeves and Dr. Russo spent nearly a year scouring Los Angeles County for office space, only to have most landlords back out once they realized the clinic provided abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The doctors eventually found a spot in Beverly Hills, where the City Council had unanimously affirmed abortion’s legality shortly before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
But as the clinic filed the necessary paperwork to obtain an operating license and began extensive renovations, the problems began. An anti-abortion group, Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, started a series of protests: papering the building with fliers of aborted fetuses, projecting the words “murder mill” onto its facade and marching outside the seven-story building, which was home to dozens of other health care businesses.
Not surprisingly, their new landlord canceled their lease, arguing that their presence was making things difficult for other tenants. So after spending nearly $2 million prepping the new site (which suggests business has been good in Washington DC at some point), the clinic had nothing to show for it. They have sued the landlord but for the moment it appears they are not expanding to LA.
Even clinics that do open find that most of their clients can barely afford their services. That means the clinics can't raise prices in response to the inflation we've all experienced over the past 2 years.
Amy Hagstrom Miller, the C.E.O. of Whole Woman’s Health, which operates six clinics in four states as well as one virtual clinic, said only two of them were currently profitable. “Whenever I talk to people about my margins,” she said, “they’re like, ‘Are you kidding me?’”
Procedure rates — which can run from $600 to many thousands for the rare abortions that take place late in a pregnancy — certainly haven’t kept pace with medical inflation, even though everything else about running a health care business, from insurance to equipment to payroll, has become more expensive.
There's some real irony here. Pro-life groups have spent decades campaigning against abortion and especially against late-term abortion. But it seems many clinics (like the ones in New York mentioned above) are now feeling pressure to stop performing these late abortions, not because of a change in the law but because of Bidenflation. I guess that's what they call a silver lining.
The final factor the article considers is that opposition to abortion has gone up, not down since the Dobbs decision. That's true even in very blue states.
Over the last two years, clinics trying to open in Fontana, Calif.; Lancaster, Pa.; and Danville, Ill. — all in states where abortion has been legal for 50 years — have faced fierce local resistance. In Pennsylvania, free-standing abortion clinics must sign a “transfer agreement,” a contract with a hospital within 30 minutes that can offer emergency care if needed. Last September, a county commissioner in Lancaster warned local hospitals against signing such an agreement with the new clinic...
“The decision to overturn Roe has emboldened anti-abortion politicians in a way we hadn’t seen before, with more aggressive tactics, even in blue states like California,” Mr. Dunn said. “Those who oppose abortion rights are more dug in and more committed to stopping abortion providers in their areas.”
After 50 years of effort, the Supreme Court finally leveled the playing field. Not having to contend with a "constitutional right" which the court invented out of whole cloth in the 1970s, pro-life groups suddenly find themselves on the winning side. Meanwhile, having lost their unfair advantage, pro-abortion groups are just the PR arm of a struggling industry. It should come as no surprise, under the circumstances, that the pro-life groups are feeling more motivated and energized than they have in the past.
Abortions going down and oil production going up. What’s not to like?
There is still a lot to do to counter the culture that promotes the attitude that there is nothing wrong with having abortions for trivial “reasons” all the way up to birth.
We need to promote a culture in which women and girls are held responsible, in which deciding to get pregnant because abortion is easily available and it’s more convenient than taking measures against pregnancy is no more acceptable than abusing children after birth.
And, also, there is more to do on the education front. Many girls and women make that decision to get pregnant and have an abortion because the abortion industry has quite successfully convinced them that a fetus is not a living human being. I’m not sure what they think is going on during pregnancy—I don’t think there is any consistent belief—but what I do know is that it bears little resemblance to reality. Yes, a fetus is human. Yes, it is sentient. Yes, it feels pain. Those who tell women otherwise aren’t supporting a woman’s choice; they’re manipulating women to protect abortion industry profits.
They can’t make a profit without government subsidy and the ability to sell baby parts. Plain and simple.
Gee that’s too bad. Imagine a woman loving her baby! I will testify that thought, let alone action, is absolutely NOT a sin. I pray more gals understand the miracle of life. There are many that can’t. They would love a baby. Please.
The rate of killing fetuses in a clinic is declining due to the decrease in dating and recreational sex in younger generations but also due to an increase in the use of abortifacients.
The death merchants are upset that they have fewer body parts to sell.
Simply because I am hoping for that big azz pendulum swing that is long overdue imnsho. I've been eating spam sangwhiches for my whole life. Time for the left to own up to rendering of our moral, cultural, educational, entertainment, and now it seems, every freaking FEdgov avency going rogue. Who did that? Idfk. But I DO know it was not gangsta Trump. Otherwise DEM bitches would not to trying to feed the fishes with him.
Common ssnse.
Most ridiculous hostage taking since Blazing Saddles. "Hand over the cash or the baby doesn't die!"
Ignore for a minute the horribly moral issue... If you can for this thought...
Supposedly the country is approx 50/50 on abortion.
Of the 50 percent that think its ok, probably 10 percent are in the most militant about it.
Half of America is 170,000,000. Take 10 percent of that, which is 17,000,000 people. You’d think in that group there would be someone putting together a charity to fund abortions. Since it’s women’s health and SO important, doncha know. (Again, not because it’s “Okay” but because then it wouldn’t have to be a public funding issue.)
Seems to me that the pro-abortion people aren’t working to provide abortions as much as they are working to make sure the GOVERNMENT funds abortions. Just to be extra pissy towards those of us who find in wrong.
Well that’s good news.
Business is dead.
Exactly. Do Not make me pay for it. Even fence sitters understand that concept. It’s not rocket science.
cant get over the death clinics, dr mengele would be proud
BS. Their money maker is chemical abortions because it requires no doctor. Trump and Vance are big supporters. They are also providing gender affirming care, and Trump loves him some Caitlyn Jenner.
The only place they are going broke is where the Godlessness of the new grand ole planned parenthood party hasn’t taken hold.
Christian, if you are supporting abortion, trannys and homosexual loving candidates just because your groceries are too high and your borders are open, ask why.
The republicans at least pretended to fight budget bills under Obama. Now they are for funding planned parenthood. And the green new deal. What Kamala policy did they defund?
To lock arms with evil for personal gain is wrong. Be the light. Tell the republicans you do not support their evil attack on children and families.
Male homosexuality requires child rape to perpetuate it.
These are the people you would be helping. That is a darknesses from which we do not return.
Or…. Is the major of the party now made of of abortionists and child rapists.
This country is the number one exporter of trafficked children.
If it must fall back into the dark ages, let it go.
Is it possible the drugs, which we were told would cease to be a problem if we legalized marijuana are exponentially worse.. just as we predicted.
The child trafficking is a serious business. These two things may be creating a bunch of s-hole countries. Is that possible.
Are you being lied to because the pedophiles and homosexuals are running the show.
That being the case, then a reduction in abortions should have very little effect on their bottom lines.
Unless they've been less than truthful all this time. /s
Interesting; did not know there was a profit motive in killing innocent defenseless Americans.
Gee, that’s too bad
Abortionists going broke.
Just damn.
Mookabookers can maybe get real healthcare jobs.
Yes, about half of all abortions are now done by taking pills that they can buy online. No need for abortion doctors. Planned Parenthood is not making as much money as before, but abortions are still happening.
” NY Times: Abortion Clinics Everywhere Are Going Broke”
Is that because the home chemical abortion business is booming?
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