Category: Providers and Money

“Financially, after years of struggle, I can’t help feeling like a Texan who drilled for water and struck oil.”

Mark Julienne “Suddenly I’m a Legal Abortionist” Medical Economics November 23, 1970

Abortion has always been very profitable for abortionists. In the book Abortion Confidential pro-choice former abortion clinic owner Norma Goldberger says the abortionists at her clinic were paid $250,000 for doing abortions 12 hours a week. They made this money with just their one job at the clinic.

Read more about abortion and abortion profits here. 

From a publication written in 2004 on late-term abortionist George Tiller, who was later assassinated:

“Tiller built the 18-room, 8,500 square-foot house in Wichita, once assessed at$732,000 but now worth over$1 million.”

The Tiller Report II, Operation Rescue 2004, 2006

Violence against abortion providers is despicable and not endorsed in any way by Clinic Quotes or any other mainstream pro-life group. However, this quote is included as another testimony to how lucrative abortion can be for doctors who perform them.

Read more about this here.

From William Ramos, abortionist:

“I find this – performing abortions – to be a very rewarding practice, emotionally and financially.”

“Abortion fare wars” Washington Time 1-3-2001

James Pendergraft is a late term abortionist, who performs abortions up to 28 weeks.

He works in Florida. From an article about him:

“Pendergraft also isn’t bashful about making money in his line of work. He says he went into a profession he believes in, and it happens to be profitable… He will not reveal annual revenues, but he says his clinics are “very economically viable.”

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“His in-your-face salesmanship leaves many – including other clinic operators – uncomfortable. They wonder how much of his professed altruism is just a marketing pitch. Maggie Gifford, a spokeswoman for the Florida coalition of Independent Abortion Providers, for nearly 20 years, has run Alternatives of Tampa, a small abortion clinic… Gifford calls Pendergraft, who once worked for her “a new breed of cat”… “

She]says areas where the Pendergraft opens has his clinics are already well served by other clinics

“They say when Pendergraft opens his doors in a new city, such as Tampa, he drops prices to spur competition.”

[Pendergraft answers] that “he goes into new markets aggressively to attract patients who will respond to the level of care in his clinics and spread the word. He says he chooses locations based on evaluations of long-term supply and demand.”

He describes himself as a “God loving Christian.”

Cynthia Barnett “The Specialist” Florida Trend Archives June 1999

Pendergraft’s licence has been suspended four times for shoddy conditions in his clinic and botched abortions.  Read more about this here. 

Feminist Carole Joffe wrote a book where she interviewed clinic workers and discussed the way abortion clinics were run. At one point, in the book, she said:

“Besides ongoing frustration over salaries, the [abortion] counselors felt that there was no real understanding of the pressures and demands of their work. They believed, for example, that the agency director and board were always devising ways to increase the patient load (and hence generate more revenues) without considering that more patients applied a need for additional staff.”

Carole Joffe The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family-Planning Workers (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986) 57

The reason why Dr. Mila Means wanted to open up an abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas:

She looked at the finances of her solo family practice and figured she might be the poorest doctor in the state. Though she lives modestly, she has had continuing problems managing money: her credit card companies have taken her to court, and her checks occasionally bounce. Determined to work alone, she did not have enough patients to cover the bills.

Offering abortions seemed the easiest way to keep the doors to her small office open, she said. The need was also there, she felt.”

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She bought much of Dr. Tiller’s medical equipment and office furniture for $20,000. Her goal was to continue her family practice and also start performing abortions of fetuses up to 15 weeks.

So here we see that money was the motivating factor for a person who wanted to open up an abortion clinic. Abortion is very lucrative for those who own and operate the clinics.

Ironically, Mila Means was once pro-life – before the lure of easy money turned out to be too much to resist. The article goes on:

By her own admission, it was a sharp reversal for Dr. Means, 54. Though she had grown up supporting abortion rights — she remembers her father instructing her that she would have to have an abortion if she got pregnant in high school — she eventually became a regular churchgoer who taught abstinence classes to Christian youths.

In 2001, she even interviewed to work at a local pregnancy crisis center that counsels women not to have abortions (she did not get the job, according to both parties, because she expressed her belief that abortion was acceptable in cases of rape or incest). A decade later and no longer a regular churchgoer, she disavows her old views as the result of “religious brainwashing.”

A number of the doctor’s patients left when they found that she would be performing abortions

About 100 of her patients switched to other doctors. Among them was Susan Lear, the head of the Pregnancy Crisis Center of Wichita, who had interviewed Dr. Means for a job there a decade earlier.

Susan Lear tried to convince Dr. Means not to perform abortions:

At her last appointment in December, Ms. Lear said, Dr. Means spent more than 40 minutes explaining her change of heart on abortion, speaking in a confessional tone. “I heard a person who step by step by step had gotten to this place,” Ms. Lear said. “She was on a mission, she knew what she was getting into.”

“I said, ‘You’ve made the loneliest choice,’ ” Ms. Lear recalled telling her.

A. G. SULZBERGER “Wichita Doctor Takes Up Fight for Abortions” New York Times July 9, 2011

Dr. Dr. Kenneth L Wright testified in a court hearing that he received $200 per abortion was able to perform 60 per day, yielding $12,000 worth of business every day.

Catholics United for Life Newsletter October 1981 Quoted in David C Reardon Aborted Women: Silent No More (Westchester, Illinois: Crossway books, 1987) 235

This was in 1981 – nowadays, abortionists are paid even more– The average abortion in 2014 costs 400 – $500 In the 1st trimester and up to over $1000 in the 2nd and 3rd.

To read more about people making money through abortion, go here