{"id":292679,"date":"2023-06-11T15:14:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T20:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=292679"},"modified":"2023-06-09T18:01:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T23:01:11","slug":"independent-ny-abortion-business-sues-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/independent-ny-abortion-business-sues-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent NY abortion business sues Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An independent abortion business is suing Planned Parenthood as the struggle to find doctors willing to commit abortions continues since the reversal of Roe v. Wade<\/em>.<\/p>\n

According to The Guardian<\/a>, ParkMed NYC is an independently owned abortion business on Manhattan’s east side, located in the same building as the Ecuadorian consulate. ParkMed has been in operation since 1971, two years prior to the Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade,<\/em> since New York had already legalized abortion. Two miles away is Planned Parenthood of Greater New York \u2014 and the two abortion businesses are now entangled in a civil lawsuit.<\/p>\n

The suit, filed by ParkMed in the New York Supreme Court in October, alleges that PPGNY violated a non-compete clause that said its workers could not accept jobs at the clinic’s competition. Staff members of ParkMed could not take a job at PPGNY until a certain amount of time had passed. However, an abortionist working for ParkMed accepted a job with PPGNY, leaving ParkMed without a second-trimester abortionist. As a result, ParkMed claims it may need to shut down.<\/p>\n

According to Planned Parenthood’s most recent annual report<\/a>, it has excess revenue over expenses of an astounding $204.7 million. America’s mega-abortion business now takes in over $1.8 million in taxpayer dollars every day. It also commits over 40%<\/a> of all abortions in the United States. According to The Guardian, this has caused some contention between the abortion giant and smaller, independent abortion businesses.<\/p>\n

“They essentially trampled us,” an office administrator from Parkmed told The Guardian. “We’re in a very precarious situation.”<\/p>\n

ParkMed hired the abortionist in 2021 and said it “expended significant time, efforts and resources … training her in the subspecialty of pregnancy termination services” \u2014 including abortions in the second trimester. The most commonly used second-trimester abortion procedure is the D&E abortion procedure, in which the abortionist uses a Sopher clamp to rip the arms and legs off of the baby and then crushes her skull. It’s as brutal and inhumane as it sounds, and abortionists who have committed the act have reported nightmares<\/a>. Some abortionists have refused to commit abortions beyond the first trimester because of this. At Parkmed, this abortionist was the only one committing second-trimester abortions.<\/p>\n