Planned Parenthood to close 4 facilities in New York over ‘financial and political challenges’

( Lifesite )

There will be fewer abortion facilities in the Empire State following a decision by Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood of Greater New York cited “compounding financial and political challenges” in its decision to close abortion facilities in “Goshen, Amsterdam, Cobleskill, and Staten Island,” according to a news release.

These four centers only appear to offer the dangerous abortion pills, and not so-called “surgical abortions,” according to a LifeSiteNews review of Planned Parenthood’s website.

There were more than 100,000 abortions committed in 2020 according to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute. “In 2021, there were 59,616 abortions performed in New York on state residents,” the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute reported.

Planned Parenthood also announced it will pause late-term abortions after 20 weeks due to the costs of “deep sedation pain management services.”

The New York Times said late-term abortions amount to “less than 2 percent” of abortions committed by Planned Parenthood of Greater New York. “A significant share of abortions in New York take place at Planned Parenthood clinics, which logged 30,000 abortion visits statewide last year,” the Times reported, paraphrasing a spokesperson.

The abortion vendor blamed rising costs and an insurance reimbursement gap for its decision to close some of its facilities that kill innocent pre-born babies.

“New York’s abortion access ecosystem is being pushed to the limit,” the CEOs of Planned Parenthood affiliates in New York wrote in early July. “On top of inflation, sexual and reproductive health care providers and patient support systems are grappling with compounding challenges: pandemic recovery, national staffing shortages, a dearth of abortion care providers in the state’s rural regions and a hostile political landscape that is driving up demand for abortion care,” the CEOs wrote.

“Unsurprisingly, insurers’ attitudes toward reproductive health care haven’t changed, leaving many providers to absorb astronomical costs to care for their patients,” the abortion vendors wrote in an opinion piece for NYN Media. The news release cited the opinion piece in explaining its reason to shut down facilities.

Planned Parenthood of Greater New York CEO Wendy Stark “confirmed that the Manhattan clinic plans to stop providing abortions past 20 weeks of pregnancy on Sept. 3,” according to the New York Times. But the facility may restart the brutal procedures.

Abortion is currently legal through all nine months of pregnancy. “After 24 weeks, abortion is permitted if your medical provider decides your fetus is not viable or your life, physical health, or mental health is at risk,” according to the attorney general’s office. That practically allows for abortion at any time, as any physician can simply declare that a woman appears to be at risk of depression or anxiety if she continues with the pregnancy. However, medical experts have affirmed a direct abortion is never truly necessary.

Conservative commentator Jordan Boyd noted that the media will ignore the existence of late-term abortions, except when it fits the pro-abortion agenda.

The New York Times “tried to reassure readers that abortions beyond the halfway mark of pregnancy are rare, making up ‘less than 2 percent’ of the New York Planned Parenthood’s facilities,” Boyd wrote at The Federalist.

“Yet, the article is clearly designed to gin up sympathy and an extra $13 million in taxpayer funding for New York Planned Parenthoods and the ‘30,000 abortion visits’ those facilities complete annually,” she added.

“The NYT willingness to admit that late-term abortions actually do occur strongly contrasts the corporate media’s track on record on second and third-trimester abortions,” Boyd wrote. She cited statements by Planned Parenthood Action which claimed “late-term abortion” is a “made-up phrase” from pro-life activists. She also criticized talking points that claim late-term abortion is rare and only for “medically necessary” reasons.

“This lie is easily refuted not only by data showing tens of thousands of babies lose their lives to late-term abortion each and every year, but also by corporate media’s favorable reporting on abortion facilities that execute babies up until birth,” Boyd concluded.

New York goes all in on abortion, establishes itself as ‘safe harbor’

In 2019, then-Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation to legalize abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, including up until the moment of birth. The bill declared women have a “fundamental right to access safe, legal abortion.” He then ordered that One World Trade Center be lit up in pink.

Cuomo’s successor Kathy Hochul has carried on the agenda of Planned Parenthood.

Following the reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022, Hochul announced $35 million to ensure her state will be a “safe harbor” for abortion, as previously reported by LifeSiteNews.

“We’re going to get a flood of people. I have declared this as our safe harbor,” Hochul told MSNBC in June 2022.

“This is where we have the Statue of Liberty welcoming people who are oppressed. Women who cannot receive the fundamental right to control their body or receive an abortion,” she said further. “They are oppressed. They are welcomed here in the state of New York.”

New York’s Attorney General Letitia James has also used her office to serve the abortion industry’s interests, threatening pro-life pregnancy centers for advertising abortion pill reversal, as previously reported by LifeSiteNews.