The National Journal has a post about the effect on the ground of Texas’ 2013 anti-abortion laws. (“Anti-abortion” in that they have to be licensed and inspected the way medical clinics have to be.) Abortion clinics are closing left and right. And it’s not necessarily because of the judiciary. It’s because of the people of Texas. Here are some quotes from the article.
“I can’t find anyone to deliver water or resurface the parking lot, because they’re against abortion. I can’t get someone to fix a leak in the roof,” said Amy Hagstrom Miller, CEO of Whole Women’s Health.
Hagstrom Miller also said it has been impossible to find hospitals that will agree to give admitting privileges to abortion providers, or ambulatory surgical centers that will sell or lease their facilities. Leasing or buying the space itself is expensive and difficult, and Hagstrom Miller currently has mortgages on three buildings, which she will have to sell. She purchased those under a different name, and did construction without associating them with Whole Woman’s Health out of concern that she wouldn’t get permitting or might attract protests.
This is lest ye doubt your power, o Christian businessman, to save. Don’t falsely separate “business” and “religion”. A child’s life might depend on it.<>
