It isn’t the repeal of Roe v Wade taking out abortion clinics. In a hilarious turn of events, apparently it is Bidenomics doing the job.
A new review of the nation’s baby murder mills shows that they are falling on hard times, even in left-wing, deep blue states where abortion is a state religion.
Last week, the New York Times reported that clinics in Lost Angeles, New York, and Washington DC are closing up shop because the economics have turned against them and because even locals who might be liberal voters don’t want to see these abattoirs opening in their neighborhoods.
One big problem is that their clients can’t afford to pay the abortionists for their services.
As the Times wrote:
Amy Hagstrom Miller, the C.E.O. of Whole Woman’s Health, which operates six clinics in four states as well as one virtual clinic, said only two of them were currently profitable. “Whenever I talk to people about my margins,” she said, “they’re like, ‘Are you kidding me?’”
Procedure rates — which can run from $600 to many thousands for the rare abortions that take place late in a pregnancy — certainly haven’t kept pace with medical inflation, even though everything else about running a health care business, from insurance to equipment to payroll, has become more expensive.
The economic factor is some rich irony. The very party pushing to give abortionists free reign is the same party destroying the economy so badly that abortionists can’t survive.
As Hot Air’s John Sexton wrote, “Pro-life groups have spent decades campaigning against abortion and especially against late-term abortion. But it seems many clinics (like the ones in New York mentioned above) are now feeling pressure to stop performing these late abortions, not because of a change in the law but because of Bidenflation. I guess that’s what they call a silver lining.”
citing the Times’s reporting, Sexton added that there is also a rising sentiment turning against abortion across the nation, even in blue states.
Over the last two years, clinics trying to open in Fontana, Calif.; Lancaster, Pa.; and Danville, Ill. — all in states where abortion has been legal for 50 years — have faced fierce local resistance. In Pennsylvania, free-standing abortion clinics must sign a “transfer agreement,” a contract with a hospital within 30 minutes that can offer emergency care if needed. Last September, a county commissioner in Lancaster warned local hospitals against signing such an agreement with the new clinic…
“The decision to overturn Roe has emboldened anti-abortion politicians in a way we hadn’t seen before, with more aggressive tactics, even in blue states like California,” Mr. Dunn said. “Those who oppose abortion rights are more dug in and more committed to stopping abortion providers in their areas.”
So, it may all be temporary, but right now, the good news is that abortion is receding.
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