Posted on 12/13/2006 4:27:10 PM PST by wagglebee
Seattle, WA (LifeNews.com) -- An abortion business in Seattle that targeted poor women is closing after doing abortions for thirty-four years. The Aradia Women's Health Center abortion facility is closing down because it mostly does abortions on low-income women and rising costs for rent and other expenses have made it difficult to operate.
The abortion center, located in First Hill, will shut down next month and lay off its twenty employees.
Karen Besserman, vice president of Aradia's Board of Directors, said the abortion center has seen a 20 percent increase in lower-income women seeking abortions.
"There's a decrease nationwide of women seeking abortions, except for low-income women," Besserman told the Seattle Times.
Since abortions make up about half of Aradia's income and with seventy percent of the women having abortions there requiring subsidized health care, the abortion business is losing money. Besserman said Arcadia is also seeing higher rent prices and increasing costs for medical malpractice insurance and supplies.
Dan Kennedy, the CEO of Human Life of Washington, the statewide pro-life group there, told LifeNews.com he was elated by the news.
"The closing of Aradia is a signals that our culture is becoming aware of the damage women suffer," Kennedy said. "The declining abortion rate shows that the hard work the entire pro-life community including LifeNews.com has done, is reaping rewards."
"We are witnessing a slow but steady sea-change," Kennedy added, saying that "women and children deserve better than abortion."
Aradia has been the site of abortion training for medical students and more than 54,000 women have gone there since the abortion center opened, with most of them having abortions.
"It was a tough decision. Aradia has deep roots and a long history in Seattle," Besserman told the Times. "There are, fortunately, other options for low-income women in Seattle."
In fact, Seattle is home to other abortion businesses such as the Seattle Medical and Wellness Clinic, Aurora Medical Services, and Planned Parenthood of Western Washington.
Like most other abortion centers, Aradia lured women and teenagers to its facility by offering some legitimate medical services such as annual medical exams, pap smears, and testing for sexually transmitted diseases.
In fact, on December 15 the abortion business is offering free or reduced cost flu vaccinations.
Arcadia was also involved in a pro-abortion lobbying effort to convince the Washington State Board of Pharmacy to reconsider allowing pharmacists to opt out of dispensing some drugs like the morning after pill that violate their religious or moral beliefs.
Related web sites: Human Life of Washington - http://www.humanlife.net
This means that nearly 1600 lives a year will be spared.
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Interesting. The MSM refers to them as "businesses" and not "clinics."
That's refreshing honesty for a change. After all, it's all about money, isn't it?
Praise God!
One less place for innocent babies to be chopped to bits.
Actually, this article is from a pro-life site (LifeNews), not the MSM. I, too, would have found the MSM calling it a business refreshing, but too good to be true.
Ironically, those lives are being spared because the women who would most likely have an abortion were themselves aborted from 1973-1990...
The purest irony of abortion is that it is not hereditary and is thus self-limiting...
Low-income women's health clinic to close doorsBy Jennifer Sullivan
Seattle Times staff reporterA First Hill clinic that has offered health care to low-income women seeking abortions and gynecological services for more than 34 years will close next month.
Among the reasons that Aradia Women's Health Center is closing is the nearly 20 percent increase it has had in low-income patients seeking abortions over the past five years, said Karen Besserman, vice president of Aradia's Board of Directors...
LINK to article: http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=clinic13m0&date=20061213&query=aradia
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I would love to see that too; however, I believe that the best we can hope for would be for the Supreme Court to put the issue back in the hands of the individual state legislatures (which is where it rightfully belongs) and leftist states like Massachusetts will not ban it.
This is an interesting article, specially for an outsider like me. I am a pro-Life, as far as that is possible in a country like mine, but here abortions are performed I beliewe solely in the hospitals, and they are, just like every other service, and now, as new laws were just passed also adoptions, subsidised by the government. And docktors can´t refuse to operate them, they would be sacked if they did, a health minister (communist) stated as much when he was in power.
It would propably be better for the (small and unorganized) pro-Life camp if abortions were done in private clinics outside the hospitals.
Actually my country was one of the first in Europe to allow abortions, but they were a lot restricted then. In the 80´s the laws were relaxed, but officially the laws bans them, except in certein cases, but those cases are interpreted so widely that abortions are newer stopped these days. I can imagine the uproar if anyone in proper position would contemplate trying to prevent an abortion by following the laws in the strictest sence.
Recently we saw a 5 % drop in abortions here, but now there are about 1 abortions for every 5 kids born (better than 1 on 1 as in Estonia I beliewe). That was directly related to the government allowing the sale of, over the counter, of morning after pills.
I haven´t been able to be against morning after pills, as I see them just as other kinds of contraception. Of course I recognise that contraceptions have in a way resulted in the moral bankruptcy (or at least helped) of the west, at least of Europe, but I don´t see the difference between the Pill and the morning after pill in that sense. If anyone has good argument otherwise I would like to hear it though.
The reason is in my mind twofold. First it is about intent, popping a morning after pill is about preventing pregnancy not killing a new life you know is allready living. And also it is about scientific definitions, as I have tended to beliewe that life starts when the new cell that results in the merge of the egg and the sperm gets stuck in the womb and starts splitting (sorry for lack of correct english words).
Others, f.e. many of my christian compatriots see life start when the cell is created, but I have trouble with that, as I have heard docktors say that up to half of every such cell that is created in womans body just passes right trhough without getting stuck in the womb, and just ends in the toilet. Sorry for graphic describtions here.
If someone could make an argument that I am wrong, I would be happy to hear it and if good enough maybe reconsider my position.
About the pro and anti- life camps in the US, I must say it is your luck in the pro-life camp that it was the supreme court, not your democratic institution that made these laws, because if not it would have been much harder to create the movement against the laws.
From, a small government standpoint, yes the issue should be returned to the states. I believe that there should be a constitutional amendment. Even then, 75% of the states would have to approve. Clearly, there are at least thirteen states that are not going to ban abortion now. So, unfortunately, you're right about the best bet being the reversal of Roe and a return to individual states.
Here are the states that I do not believe would go for a Constitutional ban on abortion:
CA, CO, CT, HI, MA, ME, NY, RI, VT, NH, NJ, OR, WA, MI, MN, PA, MD, IL.
That's 18, a couple of them might be close, but there are not 38 states that would go for an outright ban.
I would have thought the pro-aborts would have held a few fundraisers to keep the clinic open.
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Better 34 years late than never, I suppose.
The qualifications of the 20 layed off staff members, should qualify them for finding positions in the sewer.
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I'm crying. I would have gladly adopted one of those human beings instead of going through all the trouble and money of goving overseas.
I think that pro-life folks out there should buy the property.Then level it,pave the lot over and erect a large cross.
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