One-Third of All Abortion Clinics Have Closed in the Last 5 Years, Saving Babies From Abortions
Micaiah Bilger
Dec 11, 2019
One-Third of All Abortion Clinics Have Closed in the Last 5 Years, Saving Babies From Abortions | LifeNews.com
Independent abortion businesses are
closing at a rapid pace across the United States as states pass laws to protect unborn babies and mothers from abortion.
A new report from the pro-abortion
Abortion Care Network found that
almost one third of all independent abortion facilities have closed since 2012.
The network is made up of independent abortionists that are
not part of Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion chain in America.
Independent abortion businesses perform more than 50 percent of all abortions; Planned Parenthood abortion centers and hospitals and doctors' offices do the rest.
Between 2014 and 2019,
136 independent abortion businesses closed across the country. States that saw the highest number of closures were California at 15, Texas at 15, Florida at 11 and Michigan at 11, according to the report.
Currently, there are 334 independent abortion facilities in the country, the report states.
Independent abortion facilities do the vast majority of late-term abortions. According to the report, they perform 94 percent of all abortions at or after 22 weeks of pregnancy. Babies now are viable at 22 weeks.
Meanwhile, very few new abortion facilities are opening. The report described it as only a "handful."
The pro-abortion group blamed pro-life laws and other efforts as the main reason for the closures. However, it appears the researchers only speculated about the reason; they apparently did not ask the abortion facilities why they closed.
"Anti-abortion politicians have long used onerous restrictions to try and shut down independent abortion providers," Nikki Madsen, executive director of the Abortion Care Network, told CBS News. "Since 2010, anti-abortion politicians have passed more than 400 laws that attempt to make it too expensive or logistically impossible for abortion clinics to operate."
These laws actually are common sense abortion clinic regulations that protect women and unborn babies. They ensure abortion facilities meet basic health and safety standards by requiring annual inspections, hospital admitting agreements for emergency complications, statistical reporting to the state and more. Abortion clinic regulations help to protect patients from horrors like those committed by Philadelphia abortionist
Kermit Gosnell, whose facility was not inspected for more than a decade....