They said it.
Uta Landy, then executive director of the National Abortion Federation, said:
“Abortion certainly is profitable…Making money is not a bad thing.”
Scott Kraft “The Business is Abortion: And It’s a Big Business” Observer-Reporter January 18, 1983
Share on FacebookDr. Edward Allred who committed roughly 35,000 abortions in just 7 years, owns and operates a string of abortion clinics up and down the California coast. A reporter says of him:
Abortions in his clinics are carried out “on a scale so large and so efficient that they turn a profit one can only guess at. It is enough to support a staff at each clinic and maintain fulltime lawyers and accountants.”
Lorraine Bennett “Abortion Clinic Doctor: “Applying Principles of Good Business” Los Angeles Times (Orange County Edition) October 16, 1977, p 1
Share on FacebookReporter Dave Daley comments on the wealth of a late-term abortionist:
“[Late term abortionist Martin Haskell ] drives a Jaguar, lives about a mile down the road from former baseball superstar Pete Rose in Cincinnati’s Indian Hills suburb, and enjoys an affluent lifestyle from his two abortion clinics. Haskell, 43, wouldn’t say how much he earns from his two clinics, but said he employs up to 40 people and has a separate accounting office.”
From Dave Daley in Dayton Daily News 1989
Quoted in David Andrusko “SHOCKED SPEECHLESS: The Death of Conscience” National Right to Life News, February 23, 1993
Share on FacebookFrom pro-life author Mark Crutcher:
“The abortion lobby’s claim has always been that when a woman does not want to be pregnant, she will crawl through hell on broken glass to get an abortion… But for that to be true, it would have to also be true that the cost of abortions does not significantly impact the rate at which women have abortions. The abortion industry’s problem is that this was disproven years ago. In April 1988, after 15 years of legal abortion, the financial publication, Economic Inquiry, VolumeXXVI, featured a study about the relationship between the cost of abortion and the rate of abortion. The major finding of this research was that,
“The significant inverse relationship between the price of abortions and the abortion rate confirms that the fundamental law of demand is applicable to abortions.”
He goes on to give another example:
“Colorado abortionist, Warren Hern, reinforced this in May 1997 during an annual convention of the National Abortion Federation held in Boston, Massachusetts.
At a workshop held during the event, Hern complained that paying for ultrasound machines would increase the cost of abortions by $25 and that this would cause patient loads at abortion clinics to “plummet.” In effect, he was not merely confirming that price affects the abortion rate, he was stating that even small increases in price have a profound impact.…
The point is, despite the abortion lobby’s “hell on broken glass” rhetoric, the evidence is clear that the abortion decision is a highly marginal one. Because of that, desperation has far less influence on abortion rates than price or distance to a clinic or any other factor that comes between the woman considering abortion and the people who want to sell it to her. If that were not the case, a $25 price increase would not impact abortion rates much less cause the number of women having abortions to – in Hern’s words – plummet.”
Mark Crutcher Siege: Pro-Life Field Manual (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Inc., 2015) 16 – 17
Share on FacebookFrom a New York Times article about the abortion pill:
“Dr. Steven Tamarin, a New York doctor in family practice, also applauds the approval of mifepristone. A member of the board of directors of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, an organization of about 2,000 doctors who promote abortion rights, Dr. Tamarin said he was not worried about abortion opponents. But he has another concern: the time it takes to provide a mifepristone abortion. The drug agency requires that the women be counseled about the pill before using it.
”There’s no extra payment for doing the counseling,” Dr. Tamarin said.”
Gina Kolata.” Wary doctors spurn new abortion pill; some doctors insist that a surgical abortion remains a better alternative than the new pill.” The New York Times Nov 14, 2000
He does not want to provide services unless those services are profitable. Counseling is not profitable, so he does not want to do it.
Share on FacebookAn abortion clinic owner increases her profits the following way:
“Now, clinics are grappling with the mifepristone dilemma. Owners feel they have to offer the recently approved abortion pill, formerly known as RU-486, because women are asking for it and seem to expect it. But its price — $270 for three pills — will be a problem. Many owners say that if they charge what it costs to provide the three pills plus the three office visits, the lab work, and the counseling, they will lose customers to competitors who say they will keep the price much lower.
Some have found creative solutions. Ms. Chelian said she is considering offering women just one pill instead of three and to have them sign a form saying they understand that one pill is not the approved dose but that studies have shown that one pill is effective. Then she can charge them just $80 more than for a surgical abortion.”
Gina Kolata “As Abortion Rate Decreases, Clinics Compete for Patients” The New York Times December 30, 2000
Even though giving one pill is not medically recommended, the abortion clinic manages to stay competitive and is able to sell abortions to women by keeping the price down. This shows how abortion clinics are really businesses. They are willing to cut corners with medical care in order to stay competitive and make money
Share on FacebookAbortion clinic operator Amy Hagstrom-Miller said:
“This is not the Planned Parenthood we all grew up with . . . they now have more of a business approach, much more aggressive.”
The article says:
“Ms. Hagstrom-Miller competes with Planned Parenthood for abortion patients—and finds it deeply frustrating. She does not receive the government grants or tax-deductible contributions that bolster Planned Parenthood, and says she can’t match the nonprofit’s budget for advertising or clinic upgrades.” Hagstrom-Miller explains that “[t]hey’re not unlike other big national chains. . . .They put local independent businesses in a tough situation.”
Stephanie Simon, “Planned Parenthood Hits Suburbia” WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE June 23, 2008
Planned Parenthood is like any other business run for profit.
Share on FacebookSometimes abortion clinics close not because of pressure from pro-lifers but because of competition with other abortion clinics.
“We would not be closing today if Planned Parenthood had not started providing abortion services in the same town.”
Cindy George, “Planned Parenthood debuts new building”, HOUSTON CHRONICLE, May 21, 2010
Share on Facebook“Want to be un-pregnant?”
Sign in New York City advertising abortion right after its legalization there.
Ryan Lizza “The Abortion Capital of America” New York Magazine
The article also says that soon after abortion was legalized in NY:
Share on Facebook“Commercialization crept back into the abortion business. The clergymen, [who had found women abortionists when it was illegal] who had never taken any money for their work, were pushed aside by heavily advertised commercial referral services, which targeted out-of-state women, charging them about $100 to find a New York provider. New York’s abortion monopoly produced a booming new industry. One service even flew an airplane banner ad over Miami Beach.”
Former abortionist Dr. Robert Siudmack had this to say;
I worked at the [Planned Parenthood] Margaret Sanger Center in downtown Manhattan for about a year before moving to South Florida, and it was all about the money, and how many abortions we could do in a short period of time. There was a set price, and obviously the more abortions one did, the more money they would make…. Abortion is big business.
Video series “ “The Truth about Abortion.” Coral Ridge Ministries
Quoted in SARAH TERZO “Former abortionist: ‘Abortion is big business’ Live Action News NOV 29, 2015
Read more quotes by abortionists talking about the money they make.
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