The Hypocrisy of Abortion Centers During COVID-19
One of the great ironies and hypocrisies we have seen during the COVID-19 crisis is the abortion industry suddenly “caring” about the health and well-being of their patients, despite their terrible record in protecting the health and well-being of their patients from other forms of infection.
A DCist article discusses three abortion centers in the Washington DC area—Virginia, Maryland, and Metro DC. A representative from an abortion center in Montgomery County, Maryland stated:
“Patients spend a lot of time filling out forms and receiving counseling on the procedure from the safety of their cars. They’re also required to bring masks to wear inside the clinic.
“When they do come inside, patients sit in cordoned-off portions of the waiting room, which are wiped down with disinfectant between patients. Staff wear personal protective equipment—masks, gloves, gowns and other face coverings—at all times. Visitors accompanying patients are not allowed inside.”
The particular irony in these statements is that inspection records show that abortion centers do not take appropriate care to reduce the chances of infection when there isn’t a pandemic. In some cases, they’ve been cited for failing to even wash their hands between abortion procedures. And that’s how they run things with a health inspector watching them! Imagine how bad it is when no one is watching.
The Virginia center mentioned in the article, Falls Church Healthcare Center, has had numerous violations since inspections began in 2012. These include dried blood on procedure tables, failing to wear personal protective equipment (PPE); and leaving equipment such as oxygen masks, AMBU bags, and sterile equipment open to contamination, just to list a few.
While other medical facilities, such as dental offices, were forced to stop non-emergency procedures supposedly to protect their patients and preserve PPE for facilities treating COVID-19, abortion facilities were specifically allowed to remain, despite their abysmal health records.
If abortion centers could not be trusted to do the “small” thing of protecting their patients from infection during normal business, then why are they being trusted with so much more during a pandemic? Probably because abortion is not now, nor was it ever about “women’s health.” It’s always been about convenience, greed, politics, and most of all, our culture’s refusal to acknowledge that every person – no matter their age – is deserving of protection. And not even a pandemic can make these things go away.