Anti-Choice groups buying clinics in order to shut them down.

[TheMightyFavog]

http://lifenews.com/state1757.html

In years past, when pro-life advocates were opposed to having an abortion center in their town, they normally looked to protests, legislation or zoning board requirements to help them place restrictions on abortion centers or make it difficult for them to do business. Now they're trying a more direct tactic -- buying them.

Abortion business have been purchased in states such as Kansas, Florida, Tennessee and Nebraska.

In one of the first cases the Pro-Life Majority Coalition of Chattanooga outbid a Tennessee abortion business for the right to own a local facility that had long been the sole place in town where abortions were done.

The buying of the building forced the abortion center to close and the site now houses the National Memorial for the Unborn, a memorial for all of the babies who died at the abortion center over the years.

This makes me sad.

[Kookaburra]

1. Sad if true...

But this one is setting off my bullshit alarm. I can't really believe anything from lifenews.

[mwooldri]

2. Eurgh.

But IMO abortions should be made available in pretty much any major hospital with an average OB-GYN facility. You shouldn't need to go to a special clinic to get an abortion.

Just like I feel that contraceptives (and a whole lot of other healthcare things) should be free at the point of service, I feel that abortions should be free at the point of service. Better education and easy access to initial contraception should come first. IMO the best way to go is:

a) good education in schools and elsewhere about sex. And not just these "abstinence only" programs because they do no good. I'd rather have the teacher get out a banana (or God forbid a sex toy) and push a condom on it.
b) Easy and free access to contraceptives.
c) Easy and free access to emergency contraception, the so-called "Plan B" (yes I call it point C here).
d) Education as to what the choices are to women who find themselves pregnant - to be known about abortion and also adoption.
e) If the woman chooses adoption then they should be taken well care of.
f) If the woman chooses abortion then they should be able to go to any hospital with a practicing OB-GYN facility and have the abortion. There shouldn't be any special clinics that do abortion only; regular hospital is where the procedure should take place because it is at the end of the day a medical procedure and should be treated as such.

In another thread I also state if a woman dilly-dallies around regarding abortion and delays it to 3rd trimester then birthing should be the only option; I won't debate that in this thread.

However if anti family planning advocates are buying family planning practices then shame on them.

Mark.

[thegreatwildebeest]

3. What do you call private practices?

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f) If the woman chooses abortion then they should be able to go to any hospital with a practicing OB-GYN facility and have the abortion. There shouldn't be any special clinics that do abortion only; regular hospital is where the procedure should take place because it is at the end of the day a medical procedure and should be treated as such.
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And what do you call your local family practice? Or out-patient surgery centers? Or any number of health practicioners who do not operate within the framework of a hospital. Those are all "medical procedures". I don't disagree that hospitals SHOULD provide abortions, and the fact that we have to rely on a scattershot network of abortion clinics is indicative of peoples inability to stand up for not only the right to choose, but actual access to it. But as long as they are necessary, and even after they aren't, they should still exist.

[Warpy]

5. First, the legitimate clinics offer a whole array of reproductive

services. They educate clients on birth control. No clinic wants to see a woman come in several times a year for surgical abortion. Fees are set on a sliding scale in many of them. There isn't a clinic out there that is purely an abortion clinic.

The antichoice clinics offer nothing but religious harangues and medical disinformation.

Second, clinics are far cheaper than day surgery at any hospital would be. A $500 procedure in a clinic would cost at least ten times that much in a hospital, even if hospitals could be forced to provide it. If you want to promote an antichoice agenda, shift all abortions to hospitals, make them so expensive only the rich can afford them. Yeah, that's the ticket!

Good luck on forcing Catholic hospitals to provide abortions, birth control, or any other service women need to protect their reproductive health.

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[slackmaster]

4. If they are highly motivated to buy the clinics, they'll pay top dollar

Clinic owners can turn profits on the deals, and open new clinics.

[Lawrence]

6. vvv

kind of reminds me of that 'creationist museum' was was funded by multi-million dollar private donations


is it to much to ask that idiots not have this much money to waste?

[Shallah Kali]

7. some don't have the $ to waste on things like this and yet do so

I know a family who donates money to things like this and televangelists who subsist on disability. I wonder how many poor people went without necessities to fund this.

[HappyWeasel]

8. I think it is time we find our own scam...

However, I think that doctors and pharmacists should be allowed to refuse care...if and only if they advertise as a "pro-life clinic". You should have to disclose that. No more scams. No more unethical behavior. You can be free to your beliefs, but you can no longer lie about them.

[joshcryer]

10. This is the biggest problem with abortion clinics (imo), they're for profit.

We need more abortion clinics that are not for profit, so that all these profit making motivations can not be considered an issue.

You can't buy out something that is not for profit.