Posted on 04/09/2009 2:40:33 PM PDT by kellynla
Unable to pay its rent, an Oakland abortion clinic in business for 36 years has announced it is closing. The Women’s Choice Clinic at 570 14th Street, which claims to be the oldest abortion clinic in the U.S., made the announcement Tuesday afternoon.
The clinic and its leadership have long been associated with the radical Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights (BACORR), which in January organized counter-demonstrations to the West Coast Walk for Life and has characterized pro-lifers as “anti-abortion bigots.”
Linci Comy, executive director of the clinic for 21 years and on its staff since 1977, is a longtime member of BACORR. She told the Oakland Tribune on Tuesday, "We haven't been able to make our rent payments. We've been waiting for the checks from Medi-Cal and they're not forthcoming. To balance the state budget, California has frozen payments for services already provided, and for us, that is a fatal decision. With that and issues of the economy, it all came down on us in March. Our landlord let us know we have to be out in a couple of weeks. We're looking at bankruptcy.”
The far left-leaning San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center, which in January urged that “pro-abortion and pro-gay marriage people” react to the Walk for Life by putting “this Catholic Church sponsored event back on their buses, peacefully, and send them home for good,” published an item Tuesday describing the Women’s Choice Clinic as “the venerated feminist health clinic that has provided non-judgmental, culturally sensitive abortion and reproductive health care services to Bay Area women for 36 years.”
The Media Center’s story quoted ‘community activist’ Rachel Jackson as saying, “This is a wake up call for feminists old and young and anyone who cares about women’s empowerment, abortion services and health care.
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PRAISE GOD
“Our Business is Dying!”
Sounds like their slogan came true!
Boo Hoo!!! Call your hero hussein at the White House-—he’ll bail you out.
An Abortion CHAMBER put out of business! Just in time for Easter! Praise be to God!
I smell another bail out coming
Goodness, even the murder industry is down.
If this is a result of the recession, I will gladly eat beans & rice for a year to ensure all the other clinics meet the same fate.
My response to them “Good riddance”
“The Women’s Choice Clinic”
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Maybe its a marketing problem Perhaps they just need a more accurate name for their death house.
How about “The No Choice for Baby Clinic” ?
Good news for a change.
Ooooh man, I smell a disgusting reality TV show coming on the horizon.
This is a timed ploy to grab for bailout dollars.
The problem is they don’t charge the customers enough.
That brightened up the day a bit....
And Satan also was crying today at the news...
This on Holy Thurday. Amen!!
Then we put an end to the slaughter of the innocents.
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