By Dave Andrusko
Cecile Richards
The headline in the (Charleston, South Carolina) Post and Courier is the kind that warms the hearts of pro-abortionists: “Planned Parenthood move to West Ashley means the group is doing abortions for first time in the area.”
No longer would women come to the Planned Parenthood clinic on Rutledge Avenue in Charleston for an abortion and be referred to the unaffiliated Charleston Women’s Medical Center in West Ashley. That “gap” in providing abortions for the largest abortion provider in the world is now filled.
Planned Parenthood, where money is never a problem, simply bought the Charleston Women’s Medical Center late last year, according to Mary Katherine Wildeman, and had “a soft opening at the end of January and went to full hours of operation in mid-February.” This week Richards came by for the formal ribbon-cutting.
Not only will Planned Parenthood be able to do what it does best in Charleston—kill unborn babies—it will do so in a facility that is three and times as large (7,000 sq. feet) as its old clinic (roughly 2,000 sq. feet).
Richards took the occasion to “send a message,” according to the story. “We’re sending a message to politicians all across this state that we are unstoppable,” Richards said. “This health center is proof that we’re not just fighting back, we’re pushing forward.”
The Charleston Women’s Medical Center was not without its own controversies, as Wildeman explained. “Gary Clayton Boyle, who worked at the clinic, pleaded guilty to brandishing a weapon at anti-abortion activists who were protesting outside the center in 2010.”
And as has been the case since news leaked she was stepping down, Richards enjoys bantering with overtly sympathetic reporters. For example, last week’s servile interview with KT Hawbaker of the Chicago Tribune ended with Hawbaker wondering if Richards would run for office, as had her mother who was a one-term governor of Texas:
“I have no plans,” she grinned. “I know what I love — organizing — but I don’t know what the future holds. I do know that we have a record number of women running and that we have to elect them.”