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WhiskeyGrinder

(24,718 posts)
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 10:16 PM 6 hrs ago

Dr. Warren Hern closes Boulder Abortion Clinic after 50 years (performed third-trimester abortions)

https://www.dailycamera.com/2025/04/23/warren-hern-boulder-abortion-clinic-closes/

The Boulder Abortion Clinic, one of the relatively few options in the country for third-trimester pregnancy terminations and the longtime target of anti-abortion demonstrators and violent threats, has closed after 50 years.

Dr. Warren Hern, the clinic’s outspoken director, has been hailed as a fierce champion of reproductive rights, and, even before Roe v. Wade was overturned, patients traveled from around the country and overseas for later-term procedures.

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Most states have a limit on how far into pregnancy doctors can perform an abortion. Colorado is one of nine states without a limit, according to the Guttmacher Institute. A ballot initiative to add a 22-week limit in Colorado failed in 2020, with 59% of voters rejecting it.

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Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains said in a statement that it was working with partners to find options in the wake of the Boulder Abortion Clinic’s closure. In some cases, Hern saw patients with more-complex conditions than even other providers who performed later abortions.
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Dr. Warren Hern closes Boulder Abortion Clinic after 50 years (performed third-trimester abortions) (Original Post) WhiskeyGrinder 6 hrs ago OP
Sad bdamomma 6 hrs ago #1
We must not offend religious zealots BOSSHOG 6 hrs ago #2
I hope that Planned Parenthood can find a way to continue Dr. Hern's work. It's so important. n/t CaliforniaPeggy 5 hrs ago #3
I think it's important to note that these were not purely elective abortions performed because a woman AZJonnie 2 hrs ago #4

BOSSHOG

(42,130 posts)
2. We must not offend religious zealots
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 10:35 PM
6 hrs ago

That would be unseemly in a country which touts the separation of church and state. But since religious zealots care not about the separation of church and state let’s do away with it. And turn loose the tax assessors. That’s what religious zealots want. Right?

CaliforniaPeggy

(153,564 posts)
3. I hope that Planned Parenthood can find a way to continue Dr. Hern's work. It's so important. n/t
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 11:31 PM
5 hrs ago

AZJonnie

(721 posts)
4. I think it's important to note that these were not purely elective abortions performed because a woman
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 02:16 AM
2 hrs ago

capriciously decided that she didn't want a baby after all, 8.5 months in. Although some states technically don't have laws against it, I think very few if any doctors will do abortions (at least, not fatal ones) in the 3rd trimester unless either its likely the mother would die otherwise, or in cases of horrible fetal abnormalities that were either discovered very late, or for some reason an earlier termination was not possible, such that fetus have little or no chance of living more than a few minutes, hours or maybe a couple of days with massive intervention.

It's one of the favorite talking points of the anti-choice cadre, playing it up like these things are just done willy-nilly, and perfectly healthy 8.5 month old fetus are ripped out and put to death just cause a woman doesn't want it. I realize some people do support that sort of thing, and have their reasons for it, but IMHO, that is tantamount to murder, and I at least have never read a story saying such a thing did happen.

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