Posted on 09/05/2006 10:54:38 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
Another Florida abortionist has stopped performing abortions at one clinic rather than comply with rules and regulations, and pro-life activists say it's the 11th closure of a U.S. abortion business in just three months.
The newest case involves abortionist Randall Whitney, whose Family Planning Center in Daytona Beach, Fla., no longer will provide abortions, according to officials at Operation Rescue.
Although three of those 11 clinics did reopen, Operation Rescue spokeswoman Cheryl Sullenger told WorldNetDaily the climate is changing.
For years, pro-life protesters would walk in front of an abortion clinic but never take a picture or document an event.
"Now a lot of people do a lot of research on these clinics," she said. "Pro-lifers never did that before, nobody would take a picture. But I think that's really changing. Pro-lifers are more sophisticated, understanding if they can document these things, report them, and report on them, eventually people in the states will get fed up with them and now it's starting."
She described the atmosphere as having made a "fundamental shift."
"Pro-lifers are beginning to understand that this is a winnable thing," she told WND.
In Daytona Beach, Whitney has reported his clinic will remain open for non-abortion services, and he'll continue doing abortions in Orlando. The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported Whitney describes himself as a "modified Christian" who isn't concerned over the up to 1,500 abortions he performs annually.
"I sleep well," Whitney told the newspaper. "I have no concerns about what might have been if a fetus lived."
Whitney also works part-time for abortionist James Pendergraft, whose medical license was suspended last month because of allegations he performed illegal late-term abortions and was prescribing medication without the proper Drug Enforcement Administration certification, Operation Rescue said.
Five of Pendergraft's abortion businesses were closed down at that time, although three have since reopened, according to Operation Rescue. His two businesses in Orlando remain closed.
"Whitney's arrogant attitude about complying with regulations is increasingly typical in the abortion industry," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. "This story reaffirms that our country faces a crisis of abortion clinics that operate as if they are above the law at the cost of innocent lives."
Sullenger said the abortion businesses that have had shutdowns in recent weeks include:
A clinic in Omaha, Neb., where the land was purchased from underneath the business and the owners couldn't find another facility to rent.
The clinic that formerly operated in the building that now houses the Operation Rescue headquarters in Wichita, Kan.
A facility in Birmingham, Ala., that was closed because of a suspended license.
One business in Montgomery, Ala., that was closed when authorities found the abortionist didn't have hospital privileges.
A business in Hialeah, Fla., where an investigation continues into allegations a baby was born alive, then killed and placed on the roof of the building to avoid detection by police.
Five clinics owned by Pendergraft when his license was suspended. Three of those reopened later.
And the most recent case involve the business in Daytona Beach, Fla.
"I think what it is is a trend," said Sullenger. "A lot of times, when the health department people are investigating, they actually walk into an abortion clinic. It's one thing to think about a clinic, another to actually walk in and see the conditions."
The newspaper reported Whitney stopped the abortions "pushed by a protracted battle with the state over how his practice should be regulated."
The newspaper also reported that while abortion industry insiders decry the potential loss of business, the pendulum is swinging toward the protection of life. Its report noted there are enough conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court now to give hope for life to a challenge to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that nullified all state laws barring abortion.
And, it reported, Louisiana's governor has signed a law banning most abortions that would take effect upon Roe v. Wade's demise, the Kansas Legislature passed a plan to require the state to collect data on abortions performed after 22 weeks, and South Dakota's complete ban on abortions could be upheld by voters as early as November.
Good to see abortionists on the run!
BTTT!
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Eugene abortion clinic closes; surprising many (Hooray !!!)
Prayer credited for closing of abortion clinic [Eugene, OR]
Planned Parenthood will shut down 3 clinics [Indiana]
Persevering Students Help Close Abortion Clinic [Santa Paula, CA--Thomas Aquinas College]
Abortion Clinic Managers Quit After Being Outed by Operation Rescue [Wichita, Kansas]
One Man's God Squad: Troy Newman's plan to stop abortions in Wichita, Kansas
Baby Saved From Abortion is Baptized [New Orleans]
Judges rule civil suits against Planned Parenthood can proceed [Los Angeles, CA]
CA: Abortion opponents hope to limit access for California girls (Prop 73)
Jill Stanek's Accurate Summary of Cincinnati Abortion Center Closing: 'Debi Does Ohio"
Clinic is caught in the fog of abortion war (Abortion Clinic Closes) [Springfield, Missouri]
PBS program looks at Mississippi's last abortion clinic
Former abortion clinic ‘resurrected’ as Catholic chapel [Buffalo, NY]
Health Department suspends license of Montgomery abortion clinic [Alabama]
Abortion center ordered to close: East Side clinic cited with violations [Cleveland, Ohio]
Yet another abortionist can't stand heat, quits [Daytona Beach, Forida]
What if she repents?
Would you want that on your resume?
Ya see Pete, I used to kill babies but I've "repented". NOw I've seen the light and I want eternal life even though I killed babies before.
Are there pariahs in heaven?
I don't know, I'm trying to live as clean a life as I can just for a chance to get there.
Hey, they were just respecting the baby's constitutional "right to privacy".
Either the blood covers all or it doesn't. I guarantee there are no pariahs in Heaven. Are there people with little or no reward other than going there? Almost certainly, but there are no pariahs. If there were, it wouldn't be Heaven.
Your statements are what I've been taught all my life.
But I like my resume as I've never been an abortionist.
Incidently dirty jobs is great. I know I wouldn't do many of the jobs he does on that show. Unless i were starving. I thank GOD I was educated and didn't have to do some of those jobs and I appreciate those that do.
Also love Ratzenbergers Made in America.
Celebrate success! Thanks for the outstanding post!
Yeah, I'd never really bought into the "jobs Americans won't do stuff (more like, "Wages Americans won't work for") but the light really went on when my son was watching the one where he was working on the mushroom farm. Sure, there were some guys working there who might have been from Latin America (including at least one of the guys he was working with on camera) but here were a bunch of Americans literally digging around in a pile of crap all day.
I saw that one.
Now if they were magic mushrooms loads of Americans would root around in that dirt.
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