{"id":222113,"date":"2020-04-17T21:22:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T02:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=222113"},"modified":"2020-04-20T01:00:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T06:00:19","slug":"planned-parenthood-closes-5000-facilities-worldwide-covid19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-closes-5000-facilities-worldwide-covid19\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood closes more than 5,000 facilities worldwide during COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has announced<\/a> the closing of 5,633 member clinics due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and 23 others have reported a reduced ability to commit abortions.<\/p>\n

In 2018, IPPF committed<\/a> nearly 1.4 million abortions around the world with just over half being done by way of a chemical abortion (the abortion pill). The organization also lists 122,820 treatments for incomplete abortions, which could account for any chemical abortions that failed and had to be followed up with surgical abortions.<\/p>\n

IPPF also claims it is struggling with accessing “key commodities and supplies,” which is quite possible given the fact that personal protective equipment (PPE) is supposed to be going to frontline health care workers battling COVID-19. Throughout the United States, elective surgeries — including abortions in some states — have been postponed in order to divert PPE to COVID-19 health care workers. And yet, in states where a special exception<\/a> has been carved out for abortion,\u00a0Planned Parenthood abortion businesses have suspended actual health care services in favor of an ‘abortion only’<\/a>\u00a0protocol.<\/p>\n