Group buys Alabama abortion clinic to keep it from closing

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By KIM CHANDLER

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Conservative lawmakers in Alabama last year tried to enact the nation’s most stringent abortion ban, but the attempt to outlaw the procedure may have had one ironic twist.

An Alabama-based abortion rights group used a flood of donations that poured in from across the country after the ban to purchase the state’s busiest abortion clinic to ensure it stays open.

Yellowhammer Fund — a group founded to help low-income women access abortion — announced the purchase of West Alabama Women’s Center on Friday, the one-year anniversary of the passage of the Alabama ban.

“I said this a year ago. What they didn’t anticipate they would do is help us increase abortion access in Alabama,” said Amanda Reyes, executive director of Yellowhammer Fund.



FILE - In this Sunday, May 19, 2019, file photo, protesters for women's rights hold a rally on the Alabama Capitol steps to protest a law passed the previous week making abortion a felony in nearly all cases with no exceptions for cases of rape or incest, in Montgomery, Ala. An Alabama-based abortion rights group used a flood of donations that poured in from across the country after the abortion ban to purchase the state’s busiest abortion clinic to ensure it stays open, the Yellowhammer Fund announced Friday, May 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Butch Dill, File)


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[not_the_one]

1. I'm a little thick, here... Private ownership "trumps" Roe v Wade?

If so, Planned Parenthood should eschew tax payer support and have huge fundraisers.

[forgotmylogin]

4. I wonder if that's the key: privatize reproductive medications

I discovered in my past relationship that I have mild ED. It was a simple matter to subscribe to Bluechew - it's an easy quick online visit with a doctor who isn't my MD and private, and not expensive at all, delivered discreetly.

I have heard that it's possible now for women to subscribe to birth control in a very similar fashion. I think this might be the way to proceed. Subscribe to reproductive medications from private companies...take it out of the hands of the politicians who can use it as a wedge issue.

I swear I even saw a company that does the "morning after" kit like this, (telemed visit) and it is a great idea. It removes any liability from public/private insurance and localization issues.

[Karma13612]

7. For actual abortions,

I don’t think it matters if it is Planned Parenthood or Yellowhammer, it still has to abide by state restrictions.

But, it is good news that the clinic can stay open and continue to prove that abortions are still necessary in Alabama. If the clinic closed, the courts could just “ass”ume that the need wasn’t there. And be more apt to decide that maybe abortion shouldn’t be allowed to continue.


I still say, I think there needs to be constructed a funding stream that will go towards women in the states threatening restrictions whereby they are helped to get to states where it is legal. A little like the underground railroad. The states that maintain a data base of women’s menstrual cycles need to pound sand. And the states threatening to prosecute those women who leave the state for an abortion should be economically and educationally boycotted. Don’t move businesses there, don’t buy, don’t travel, don’t go to college, don’t have concerts, etc.

#NeverGoBack

[wryter2000]

9. I've always loved that idea

A plane ticket to California and someone to pick the person up at the airport and take them to a hotel, then to a clinic, and then back to the airport.

I got pregnant at 18 in 1967. I had to go to Japan for an abortion. It would have been so much better to have someone with me, but that was a hugely expensive trip.

edited to correct date.

[Karma13612]

10. Yup, we all have our stories! And reasons for

Never Go(ing) Back

To the dark, bloody coat hanger days.

Never, ever again.

[Karma13612]

8. No, I don't think so. nt

[calimary]

2. EXCELLENT!!!

Pass it on!

We have to think outside the box. The other side certainly does, and look how far it's gotten them. Pretty doggone far - WAY TOO far if you ask me.

[Ford_Prefect]

3. The owner needed to retire and the donations enabled another outfit to buy it.

Gloria Gray, who has owned the clinic since 1993, said in a statement issued through Yellowhammer that she was looking to retire but had been concerned about keeping the clinic doors open.

“I’ve been waiting years, holding out until I could sell my interest in the company without affecting the clinic, without preventing women from being able to get abortions in Alabama,” Gray said.

[musette_sf]

5. w00t!!!!

I saw the teasers from Yellowhammer on FB and was hoping that this was what was up!

[iluvtennis]

6. Nice!!!