Across the nation, states are implementing laws and policies that protect preborn children from the violence of abortion — and as a result, some abortion facilities are closing their doors, and some are moving to abortion-friendly states. The reason appears to be financial, because without abortion, these businesses apparently can’t survive.
ABC News spotlighted Katie Quinonez, executive director of the Women’s Health Center of West Virginia. When Roe v. Wade was overturned, an 1882 law could have potentially made abortion illegal in the state immediately. That law ended up being blocked, but Quinonez and her staff still canceled 60 scheduled abortions over a three-week period.
“That was definitely one of the worst days of my entire life so far,” she said. “Some of the staff were so upset that they couldn’t stop crying.”
Quinonez also explained that, as abortion allegedly makes up 40% of their revenue, she isn’t sure they can stay open without it. “Being unable to provide abortion care absolutely puts us in a precarious financial position,” she said. “Our ability to keep our doors open very much depends on revenue from the services we provide, as well as grants and donations.”
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ABC News added that across the country, abortion businesses are having to choose whether to stay where they are and stop committing abortions, or relocate. Amy Hagstrom Miller, founder and CEO of the Whole Woman’s Health abortion chain, agreed that not being able to commit abortions creates a financial burden; in Texas, they have already laid off half of their staff, while trying to store medical equipment from shuttered facilities and plan relocations.
“All of that requires capital resources that we don’t have now because we’re not able to see patients, which of course is the major source of income in any medical practice, not just abortion clinics,” she said. “You don’t have income if you don’t have patients.”
The financial difficulties faced by the abortion industry in light of laws protecting preborn children reveals their longtime dishonesty with the public about their services. For example, Planned Parenthood repeated their 3% lie for years, claiming that abortion constitutes just 3% of their overall services (a fabrication still repeated by abortion proponents today), while boasting they had not closed any facilities. Yet this figure has been thoroughly debunked, including by the Washington Post. Abortion is, in the corporation’s own words, Planned Parenthood’s “core mission,” and ABC News pointed out that the only reason it has been able to stay open is thanks to a flood of post-Roe donations.
But smaller, independent abortion facilities aren’t enjoying the same kind of community support. And without the ability to kill preborn children, their entire business model fails.
This should serve as a warning whenever the abortion industry talks about their business existing merely to help women, or denies pressuring women into abortions. These facilities need to commit abortions; they rely on them to make money. There is no world in which it would make sense for an abortion staffer to therefore not want to sell as many abortions as possible.
The financial problems of the abortion industry should make it clear to the world that abortion facilities are not unbiased. When women choose anything but abortion, abortion businesses’ bottom line will suffer.
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