Still Vanishing: 73 Abortion Facilities Shut Down in 2014

Operation Resuce ^ | December 29, 2014 | Cheryl Sullenger

[Morgana]

Washington, DC – A new survey conducted by Operation Rescue of all abortion facilities in the United States has confirmed that the abortion clinic closure trend continued strongly in 2014. Operation Rescue is the only pro-life organization that maintains a listing of abortion facilities and tracks clinic closures and its extensive research has provided the most accurate accounting of abortion facilities known to exist.

In all, 73 abortion facilities shut down for all or part of the year. The total number of all remaining abortion clinics in the US is currently 739. Surgical abortion facilities account for 551 of that total while the number of medication-only abortion facilities stands at 188.

Out of 60 surgical abortion clinic closures, 47 were permanent. This represents a 23% decline in surgical abortion facilities over the past five years.

Thirteen surgical facilities were allowed to reopen after initially closing, primarily due to court action that enjoined abortion safety laws that had shut down the substandard facilities.

Thirteen facilities that provided only medication abortions account for the remaining closures in 2014. That more than doubles the number of medication abortion facilities that closed in 2013 when six were shuttered.

While the abortion clinic closures did not eclipse the high water mark of 93 total closures in 2013, the 73 closures this year far exceeds the two dozen closures recorded in 2012.

The 2014 figures represent a net decrease of 31 surgical abortion facilities nationwide. even though the number of medication abortion facilities increased by 11 over 2013 numbers, they still remain below the high of 196 facilities in 2012.

[Tax-chick]

the abortion clinic closure trend continued strongly in 2014

Fun with statistics! "Access to abortion" is declining, in spite of President Punished-with-a-baby, and every little increment of inconvenience reduces the number of dead babies.

[Vince Ferrer]

This is great news. The fewer woman that have abortions, the fewer women need to justify it to themselves, the less political support it will have.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Indeed reason for rejoicing!

I hope for the day when abortion is not only inaccessible and illegal, but unthinkable.

[Tax-chick]

I hope for that day, too. It will follow the day when sex outside a godly marriage is unthinkable.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Amen

x10

[EternalVigilance]

While Planned Parenthood builds more and more mega-death centers and chemical weapons of mass baby destruction are now being dispensed over the counter.

[Tax-chick]

Unfortunately, the proliferation of chemical abortion may be reducing the “need” for surgical abortion facilities.

[Morgana]

That is what I’m thinking. Plus we don’t know the long term affect of those drugs.

[Tax-chick]

Nonetheless, every death avoided is a life. The reason the Death Eaters oppose every possible regulation of abortion clinics is that they DO reduce the incidence of abortion.

[EternalVigilance]

I don't think regulating abortion reduces abortion. Quite the opposite. It guarantees the continuation of abortion on demand, because it gives up the only real moral, constitutional, and legal arguments against the practice, which are the God-given, unalienable nature of the right to live and the necessity for equal protection under the law, while codifying actual permission to murder certain disfavored classes of human beings in our statutes.

But even if it did reduce the number, I would still oppose it. I am not a Utilitarian. I'm a Christian and a constitutionalist.

Regulated mass murder is still murder.

And the Bible and the U.S. Constitution both forbid murder, period.

"You shall not murder."

-- Exodus 20:13

"No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law."

-- The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution

"No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

-- The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

It's not optional, and there are no exceptions.

[Tax-chick]

Regulated mass murder is still murder.

I understand your perspective, and I agree. I take it even further, and say, "Immoral sex is support for abortion." Nothing can really be done about abortion without the understanding that sex makes babies, no matter how much people wish otherwise.

I don't think regulating abortion reduces abortion.

Fun with statistics. In the short term, anything that increases the financial cost or the time cost for abortion reduces the incidence. Also, anything that reduces the payoff for out-of-wedlock children reduces both the number of children born AND the incidence of abortion. Rationality is operating.

HOWEVER, in the bigger picture, it's possible that reducing the number of abortions this year nonetheless results in more abortions total, over the long term, because treating abortion as an economic issue prevents treating it as an issue of inarguable eternal significance.