Michigan urgent care committing abortions since Planned Parenthood closure

A Michigan urgent care facility has begun committing abortions since the closure of a Marquette Planned Parenthood.

Key Takeaways:

• Earlier this year, Planned Parenthood closed its Marquette location in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

• There were no other abortion facilities committing abortions at the time in the Upper Peninsula.

• An urgent care clinic has begun committing abortions in the wake of the closure — a move that has been lauded by abortion activists.

The Details:

In April, Planned Parenthood closed its Marquette abortion facility as part of a nationwide series of closures amid intentional restructuring to focus the business more on telehealth abortion pill sales, while also garnering sympathy and begging for donations. At the time of the facility's closure, Planned Parenthood said it would be expanding its virtual health center to make chemical abortions more available.

Dr. Viktoria Koskenoja, a local emergency medicine physician who was working for Planned Parenthood of Michigan, is now is committing abortions at the Marquette Medical Urgent Care Clinic. Interestingly, while Koskenoja worked at Planned Parenthood, she seems to disagree with the abortion industry's emphasis on telehealth abortions, insisting women need to be able to see an abortionist in person.

Dr. Shawn Brown, the medical director and owner of Marquette Medical Urgent Care, agreed. "I think a lot more people, they feel isolated and they need to be able to just sit in a room with somebody who cares, who can explain what their options are and what they’re going to go through,” Brown said.

Koskenoja and Brown seem pleased that theirs is the first urgent care to commit abortions.

“We created a system to deliver abortions out of an urgent care, which has never been done before in the country, as far as we know,” Koskenoja said. “We hope it removes some of the stigma around abortion to know that it can be delivered alongside routine urgent care services."

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has also gotten involved, trying to help the clinic and facilitate the expansion of abortion at more urgent care clinics around the state — or even around the country.

“While I can’t make any promises — all I can say is I can try, right?” Nessel said. “What these folks have done here in Marquette has been really impressive. Let's see what we can do to help them as much as possible.”

Why It Matters:

Abortion activists are framing the closure of Planned Parenthood facilities as an assault on health care access for women. Yet the reality is, Planned Parenthood is not a legitimate health care provider, and millions of women do not rely on the abortion chain for care.

Planned Parenthood serves only an estimated two percent of American women of reproductive age, and its annual reports have revealed that the few health care services it does provide have plummeted, all while abortions have increased steadily.

Planned Parenthood has demonstrated that telehealth abortion is one of its major priorities, putting its bottom line ahead of any kind of in-person client care.

Managers Reveal Planned Parenthood is Not Real Health Care

Furthermore, abortion is killing — not health care. Conflating the two, while lending it legitimacy by committing it at an urgent care center, is disturbing. Health care does not rely on the intentional, targeted killing of human beings.

Action may need to be taken to save the life of the mother, which may tragically end with the death of the preborn child. But this is not the same thing as intentionally and deliberately killing the child. If a woman has an ectopic pregnancy, for example, action must be taken to save her life, and the preborn child will not survive. But the goal is not to kill the preborn child; it's to save the mother's life. The baby will die as a side effect of that treatment.

Intention makes a difference.