{"id":275842,"date":"2022-09-12T18:52:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T23:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=275842"},"modified":"2022-09-11T21:40:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T02:40:10","slug":"indiana-ohio-abortion-facility-relocate-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-ohio-abortion-facility-relocate-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana and Ohio abortion chain looking to relocate to Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As major pro-life protections take effect in Indiana and Ohio, an abortion chain has announced that it will close its doors in the two states, while also taking steps to relocate to abortion-friendly Illinois.<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s Med Center, a midwestern abortion chain that has been feeling the strain of pro-life laws, has announced at the end of August it will stop committing abortions in Indiana and Ohio on September 15 \u2013 the same day that Indiana\u2019s new pro-life law takes effect. Women\u2019s Med Center currently operates abortion facilities in Dayton, Ohio, and Indianapolis, Indiana. According to WYSO<\/a>, a few staff members have begun the process of relocating to the state of Illinois, a state that protects<\/a> abortion both constitutionally and with various state laws.<\/p>\n

After Roe v. Wade<\/em> was overturned, Indiana became the first state to pass major new legal protections for preborn babies. On August 5, as Live Action News reported<\/a>, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb signed Senate Bill 1 into law. The measure protects most preborn babies in the state, although some pro-lifers have raised concerns<\/a> with elements of the law. Ohio\u2019s 2019 heartbeat law<\/a>, which was placed under injunction shortly after it passed, took effect after the state\u2019s attorney general successfully requested the injunction\u2019s dissolution<\/a> in the aftermath of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization<\/em>. Ohio\u2019s law means that an abortion cannot be committed on a preborn baby when a heartbeat is detectable.<\/p>\n

READ: Three facts that debunk the myth of \u2018safe abortion\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The abortion chain was founded by late-term abortionist Martin Haskell<\/a>, who pioneered the D&X or \u201cpartial birth” abortion procedure<\/a>, in which a baby is partially delivered before having his or her brain removed by powerful suction, and which was federally outlawed in 2003. Haskell has also had complaints filed against him for an alleged failure to report possible sexual abuse of minor patients<\/a>. Women\u2019s Med Center has faced multiple lawsuits over its practices, including being ordered to close for failing certain health standards<\/a>, such as a hospital transfer agreement. One of its facilities in Ohio had its license revoked<\/a> in 2016.<\/p>\n

Pro-Choice Ohio released a statement<\/a> on the announcement of the closing in which the abortion activist group attempted to portray the abortion business as a provider of medical care, though\u00a0killing humans is not health care<\/a> and is life-affirming alternatives exist in extenuating medical circumstances<\/a>. Yet Kellie Copland, the organization\u2019s executive director, claimed, \u201cWhether a person needs an abortion because it endangers their health, or their birth control failed, no one should be forced to give birth because they cannot access the health care they need in their community.”<\/p>\n

Of course, the only alternative to giving birth once a child has been conceived is killing that child before birth, which pro-life laws are seeking to prevent. A pregnancy will naturally continue once it has begun, barring either an intentional or accidental interruption (abortion or miscarriage). Abortion forcibly<\/em>\u00a0ends<\/em> a preborn human being’s life.<\/p>\n