MILWAUKEE (LifeSiteNews) — A Milwaukee abortion facility is attempting to promote its business and raise money in a particularly macabre way by holding a contest to name its new vacuum aspirator.
On September 10, Care for All Community Clinic announced on Instagram that it had recently been donated the funds for a new aspirator, and “we want to hear from YOU with what we should name it,” taking submissions with $10 donations. “Think of the bragging rights, street cred, and the boost on your resume when you tell everyone you named an abortion machine!” the post declared.
The contest’s donation page calls it a “chance to leave your mark on our abortion machine,” and says they are “excited to see the creativity of our community.” A follow-up post on September 23 said voting would begin in one week, but no announcement has been made since. The donation page does not say how much has been raised overall but only highlights three donations, potentially indicating the stunt may have been too grim even for their audience.
Care for All describes the purpose of the aspirator as simply to “help us provide better abortion care.” But what it actually does, as detailed by Abort73, is “provides the necessary suction to empty the uterus, pulling the developing human being to pieces in the process” as part of suction curettage or vacuum aspiration abortions, the “most common abortion procedure in the world.”
Live Action noted that vacuum aspirators generally produce 10 to 20 times the force of a household vacuum cleaner and added that Care for All opened in June as just one of two abortion facilities remaining in Wisconsin, and that executive director Ali Kliegman intends to expand into gender transitions as well.
Ironically, despite her chosen profession, Kliegman has said pro-life peaceful protesters, even those who “just stand there and don’t talk to anyone,” are the ones committing the real form of “violence.”
Abortion, which despite persistent media narratives is almost never sought for “medical” reasons, has long been known to carry significant risks on top of its intended lethality to preborn babies.
Abortion clinics across the country are regularly flagged for harming women through botched procedures, unsanitary tools and environments, and lack of regulatory protections such as requirements for staff to secure admitting privileges at nearby hospitals in the event of complications. With the rise of services dispensing abortion pills by mail in violation of federal law, chemical abortions self-administered completely without medical oversight are certain to increase those harms further still.
Even when “properly” performed, abortions still carry grave risks. According to the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG), which represents 7,000 medical professionals who reject the left-wing orthodoxy of the medical establishment, “(w)omen face a 35% increased risk of preterm birth in a future pregnancy after one surgical abortion and an almost 90% increase in preterm birth risk after two abortions. The increased risk of future preterm birth for women after they have an abortion represents a clear long-term health risk. Mothers who deliver preterm babies are at a higher risk of medical complications later in life, including cardiovascular disease and stroke.”
“From 1993 to 2018, there are at least 75 studies examining the link between abortion and mental health,” the group continued. “Two-thirds of those studies showed a correlation between abortion and adverse mental health outcomes. Studies show abortion significantly increases the risk of depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and suicidal behavior when compared to women with unintended pregnancies who choose to carry the baby to birth. A study from Finland found a 7X higher suicide rate after abortion compared to when women gave birth.”
In Wisconsin, abortion is illegal under a law dating back to 1849, though Democrat leaders made it clear after Roe v. Wade was overturned they would not enforce it, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down the law this summer. Planned Parenthood was still forced to stop its abortions in the state when the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act cut off federal funding for one year.