{"id":126264,"date":"2016-09-19T17:16:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T21:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=126264"},"modified":"2016-09-19T17:18:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T21:18:40","slug":"owner-of-new-okc-abortion-facility-planning-for-thousands-of-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/owner-of-new-okc-abortion-facility-planning-for-thousands-of-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Owner of new OKC abortion facility planning for thousands of abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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South Wind abortion facility owner Julie Burkhart (Screenshot via KFOR.com)<\/p><\/div>\n

Inside the doors, a picture hangs on the wall. The man in the photo is Dr. George Tiller, the infamous abortionist who was killed in 2009; the picture is to memorialize his abortion legacy. But outside in the neighborhood, homeowners say the legacy should go somewhere else. South Wind Women’s Center’s Oklahoma City facility<\/a>\u00a0opened last week without a welcome from its new neighbors.<\/p>\n

The abortion facility owner, Julie Burkhart (pictured right), who was mentored by Tiller, allowed cameras into the new abortion facility Saturday, days after it opened to the public. Burkhart believes Oklahoma needed another abortion facility. She told a local news station<\/a>:<\/p>\n

This is really the only path to provide access to people. \u00a0Just because we live in a more traditional, conventional part of the county it doesn’t mean people don’t deserve their right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But getting to opening day, she said, was like “pushing a boulder up a mountain.” KFOR reports<\/a>\u00a0that the Oklahoma State Health Department (OSDH) “denied the clinic’s license for months” before finally issuing the license for South Wind on August 31. Previously, Burkhart had planned to open in July.<\/p>\n

News9.com<\/a> reported on September 17:<\/p>\n

With six doctors on staff, the clinic will provide a range of women’s health services, hormone therapy, OBGYN care and abortions up to 21.6 weeks. So far, Trust Women’s CEO Julie Burkhart says they’ve been welcomed by their new neighbors.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy and large people are I think appreciative, they think our clinic is going to serve the community well,\u201d Burkhart said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Burkhart told KOCO News<\/a>\u00a0of the perceived need for an abortion facility in the Oklahoma City area by justifying the need for OB\/GYNs in the region:<\/p>\n

If you look at this part of the country, there is a lack of access to reproductive health care, and frankly a lack of access to health care across the board. It’s hard for women who want to give birth to find OB-GYNs to help them deliver their babies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But her tragically ironic statement of needing OB\/GYNs to deliver babies, when her mission is to kill them, is not lost on the neighbors in southwest Oklahoma City who, despite Burkhart’s statement of being welcomed, say otherwise. The abortion center is located at 1240 S.W. 44th St, and the neighbors would like their addresses to be in an abortion-free area.<\/p>\n

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