DAYTON, Ohio (LifeSiteNews) – A scandal-plagued abortion chain plans to shut its facilities in the Dayton area and Indianapolis unless there is a last minute block on pro-life laws in Ohio and Indiana.
Women’s Medical Center in Dayton has a history of emergencies and only received a license to commit abortions after legal challenges and the hiring of new backup doctors to meet the requirement of a state law. The center lost its license due to frequent health and safety violations. It was operated by Martin Haskell, an abortionist who helped pioneer gruesome partial-birth abortions.
“The Dayton area’s sole abortion clinic plans to close in mid-September unless laws banning most abortions in Ohio and Indiana are put on hold, a Women’s Med spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday,” according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Ohio’s six-week heartbeat abortion ban is pending a legal challenge, as is Indiana’s prohibition on around 95 percent of abortions. The Indiana law bans independent abortion facilities.
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Ohio Right to Life celebrated the news.
“Ohio Right to Life is grateful that this notorious abortion facility will shut down for good. An unimaginable number of babies have lost their lives there and no longer will the greater Dayton area be subjected to this great tragedy,” Mike Gonidakis, president of Ohio Right to Life, said, according to the Cincinnati newspaper. “We know that the Montgomery County pro-life and health care community stand ready to provide real care to each and every pregnant woman who may need it.”
Women’s Med in Indianapolis killed 1,949 babies in 2020, according to Indiana’s annual abortion report, accounting for about 25 percent of all abortions in the state that year.
Abortion facilities continue to close more than two months after the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that states had the right to regulate and ban abortion.
Tennessee’s last three abortion facilities will close by today. Other Indiana abortion facilities will presumably shut down by September 15, when the state’s pro-life law goes into effect.
LifeSiteNews has a comprehensive, regularly updated map of state-by-state abortion laws. Indiana became the most recent state to restrict abortion, passing a law which is expected to prevent 95 percent of abortions. A federal judge also ruled on August 17 that North Carolina can enforce its ban on abortions at 20 weeks.