“Abortion Cartel” continues to crumble
Seattle, WA — Aradia Women’s Health Center, an abortion clinic that has operated for 34 years, has announced that it will permanently close at the end of January, 2007. Aradia’s president, Scott Leopold, told clinic supporters in a letter posted to their web site that the decision to close Aradia was a financial one.
“The trend of closed abortion mills continues,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “This is the fifteenth abortion mill to close in about 13 months. This is evidence that the abortion cartel is crumbling.”
Aradia was established in 1972 by the YWCA as the first non-profit health clinic in Seattle. In 1973, it began providing abortion counseling and in 1977 became a full-fledged abortion mill. It was responsible for 54,000 abortions and was a training center for over 1,000 abortionists over three decades of operation.
“Apparently their training was ineffective, since the vast majority of those trained thankfully did not stay in the abortion business,” said Newman.
In recent years the clinic suffered financially. Leopold cited the rising cost of doing business and number of women unable to pay the full price for their abortions as the reason Aradia could no longer stay in business.
“Interestingly, the letter announcing the closure repeatedly refers to the ‘success’ of the abortion mill. When one’s business fails for financial reasons, one should hardly call that ‘success,’” said Newman. “That use of language is just an example of how the abortion cartel creates their own reality with euphemisms to cover up the truth. Business failure becomes ‘success.’ Killing babies and traumatizing women becomes ‘sensitive abortion care.’ Fantasy world aside, this mill is responsible for immeasurable human suffering. The Seattle area will be a better place once its doors close for good.”
View list of other recently closed abortion mills
thank God!
It’s a shame when an organization that is to be representative of Christ is involved with abortions, lesbian perversion and birth control.
To be fair, however, the legal ownership of the abortuary ceased in 1973 however the lure of “common ground” so prevelant in prolife feminists circles apparently played a part in having the YWCA continue to house this abortuary under the same roof until 1978.
I do not know if the YWCA ever repented of their involvement or if, as the ORW article suggests, they remained intimately involved in the willful killing of innocent children.
I can also share that one clinic near me just closed last month.A pro-life organization bought the space,and they are building a shrine to remember the unborn in it’s place.I guess that slowly these butcher shops are closing their doors.It’s great to see, especially when people like me don’t see change.A lot of these abortionists are quitting the business also.I was reading about a former abortionist that had quit and now speaks out for life.He repented and now he says that he was’ nothing more than ‘A paid hit-man.” [Deuteronomy-27;25 Cursed is the man who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person]
4life. Please name this closed abortuary and take a picture of the closed abortuary for ORwest to post.
Hi all-Yes Steven,I will.It is in Ohio and OR has an article about it in the archives.I will have to get the exact location of the building and go get pics.The abortionist’s name was Martin Ruddock.His clinic was closed for numerous health code violations.Prior to closing the man botched an abortion.In his 911 call he says”I can’t stop the bleeding”and”I want her OUT of here!”The staff wasn’t documenting vital signs prior to the abortion procedure.He was one of the few clinics that was performing the partial-birth abortions.I was glad to see him go.
Sorry,I meant Yes, Robert I will.
What compassion and concern. Wouldn’t your most important concern be to get the person the help he or she needs and for that person’s well being? Can you imagine calling 911 for a medical emergency, even if its someone you don’t know, and telling the operator you just want the person “out of here”?
Is anyone on this site going to attend the January abortion march?I have never gone and I would like to go next year.Can anyone tell me what goes on and how it is run?I would really like to get involved.Any info.would be greatly appreciated.Thanks all!
I know Mary.It’s horrible to say the least.In his yellow page add it boasts…Dr.Ruddock is a compassionate OBGYN doctor specializing in fetal abnormalities.A pioneer in medicine with 20 years experience.He doesn’t sound very compassionate to me!In OR’s article it said that he failed to contract with hopitals in case of complications/emergencies so when he botched this abortion,he panicked.