Activists in Michigan Move to Integrate Abortions Into Urgent Care Clinics | The American Spectator

After Planned Parenthood shut down its abortion clinic in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula this April, owing to the Trump administration’s funding cuts, the peninsula was left without an abortion clinic. That is, until an urgent care clinic, Marquette Medical Urgent Care, began offering abortions.

This is highly unusual. Abortions in the U.S., for the most part, take place at clinics that exist primarily for abortions, or, increasingly, at home with pills that are mailed there. Health clinics used for the general population are not typically also centers for child killing. (RELATED: How Trump 2.0 Can Get Back to Trump 1.0 on the Abortion Pill)

The woman who is “director of abortion services” at the urgent care, Viktoria Koskenoja, says that this is the only urgent care in the U.S. where abortions are offered. “As far as we know,” she told Michigan Public, “we are the only urgent care in the country offering medication abortions as a service.”

There is something particularly disturbing about this new model of killing paired with genuine health care. The kids treated at the clinic are given medical help, even as the babies treated at the clinic are given death. The health care lends a certain legitimacy to the abortions — and that’s something Koskenoja is upfront about.

“People are in the waiting room with broken ankles, sore throats, rashes, and tick bites,” she said. “Not like, ‘Oh, you have to go to the bad place where people do abortions, because that’s where you have to get this done, because it’s something that’s not part of real health care.’”

Worryingly, the clinic has received grant funding for this project with the goal to “create a standard of practice, so that urgent cares can recreate this model nationwide,” said Shawn Brown, the clinic’s medical director and owner.

In one sense, the urgent care’s abortion “services” verify the dangers put on women’s health by the growing movement to dispense abortion pills virtually.

This point was made, albeit indirectly, by Koskenoja. She explained that some women need to receive in-person medical consultation during an abortion in order to ensure their own safety. Virtual care isn’t an option, she said, for those who need ultrasounds to determine the stage of their pregnancies. (RELATED: When the Abortion Lobby Cries Wolf, They Might Just Summon One)

It is extremely dangerous for women’s health and safety (never mind that of their children) for an abortion pill to be taken after the FDA-recommended 10th week of gestation. The child’s body parts could remain in the woman’s uterus, she could get an infection, or she could experience heavy bleeding. Yet women are increasingly just telling their abortion provider how many weeks pregnant they are in order to receive abortion pills. They can easily lie about how far along they are to get the pills, even as the dangers to their own life increase with each week of pregnancy. (RELATED: ‘Dr. Maggie,’ Notorious Abortionist)

Also, in the case that a pregnancy is ectopic, which accounts for 2 percent of pregnancies, a woman can face grave dangers to her own life, and taking an abortion pill will delay her from receiving (actual) care and mask the symptoms.

In all abortions until recently, an ultrasound was used to verify how developed a child was and to make sure a pregnancy wasn’t ectopic prior to the attempted killing.

Koskenoja asserted, “The most important thing that we felt we needed to replace immediately, was access to in-person abortion services.” Yet abortion activists across the country are constantly claiming that it is wholly unnecessary for a woman to receive in-person care, and that pills prescribed virtually are all that is needed.

This clinic is unusual not just for dealing death alongside healing scrapes. It also, according to Michigan Public, provides Reiki therapy. For the happily uninitiated, this is a pseudoscientific practice that claims to transfer “universal life force” from a practitioner’s hands to their patient’s “chakras.” In other words, the “health” clinic dispensing death is also peddling occult, fraudulent healing practices. Who would have thought? And that’s not to mention the ketamine infusions.

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People are apparently highly motivated to increase abortions in the Upper Peninsula because a new ad campaign was just announced to encourage women in the U.P. to obtain abortion pills in advance so that, in the case they get pregnant, they are ready to kill their children at a moment’s notice. The two advertisements will air on television across the Upper Peninsula between October and November of this year.

One of the ads features a teenage girl who takes abortion pills and is supported by her friends as she bleeds and cramps. Another shows an overwhelmed single mother with two other children who finds hope and happiness by taking the pill and avoiding having to give birth to her child. They are, to put it simply, incredibly disturbing. Accompanying the ads, which were created by Detroit filmmaker Na Forest Lim, will be a billboard outside Marquette encouraging women to get abortion pills virtually.

Evidently, abortion activists are dead-set on doing everything they can to increase abortions, especially in rural areas like the U.P. But this new tactic — providing abortions as a normal part of health care that can be received at a doctor’s office — presents especially concerning possibilities.

Possible methods for stopping this new tactic would be for conservatives to refuse to receive treatment at such clinics, as well as for funding for these clinics to be stopped.

But perhaps no conservatives were going to this Reiki-providing clinic to begin with, and the grant money from an abortion fund is hard to stop.

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