Dozens of patients used Planned Parenthood’s mobile clinic set up near the Democratic National Convention to receive abortions, vasectomies and other life-threatening medical interventions.
As The Blaze News previously reported, on Monday and Tuesday, Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, which typically sees patients in Missouri and southern Illinois, opened a mobile clinic in Chicago’s West Loop, just a few blocks from the United Center, where the Democratic National Convention is currently being held.
“We know that the services we provide will bring out people who are opposed.”
A total of 20 to 30 people were reported to have visited the clinic while it was open this week, at least 10 of whom underwent vasectomies and at least two were given drugs to kill their unborn babies. Politico Reported.
The Blaze News reached out to Planned Parenthood to confirm the total number of medication abortions performed at its clinics this week but did not receive a response.
Women who receive abortion-inducing medication from the mobile clinic can take the medication back to the site or to their homes, according to Illinois law. NPR According to reports, Dr. Colleen McNicholasThe chief medical officer for Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, which provided services at a temporary abortion center.
“We’re really excited to provide an opportunity for thousands of people coming to Illinois to show that it’s possible to close the health care gap for people,” McNicholas said.
Luis Ayala was one of the “people” who visited the clinic this week. The 28-year-old husband and father of three said his vasectomy was “a little uncomfortable.”
“I have three kids and I really wanted to stop having kids,” Ayala explained to NPR.
Ayala’s wife, Fabiola, supported the decision. “I’m going to stop using birth control and I’m going to stop taking hormones,” she said.
Ayala signed up to visit the mobile clinic after Fabiola saw ads about the “free” services offered at the clinic and posts about Planned Parenthood facilities. X Account The clinic advertised offering “free vasectomies and medication abortions” and free emergency contraception, but it is unclear whether all patients who visited the clinic this week received the free services.
Pro-life protesters also gathered near the fenced-in clinic, chanting “abortion is genocide,” perhaps borrowing the words of other protesters in the area who have alluded to “genocide” in Gaza.
McNicholas insisted she’s “familiar” with the slogans of pro-life activists: “We know that the services we provide attract people who are opposed to them,” she told NPR.
“But the truth is, health care shouldn’t be politicized.”
McNicholas did not explain how killing a fetus or preventing healthy reproductive organs from functioning properly constitutes a form of “medicine.”
Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Union, said in a statement to NPR that the pop-up abortion center near the Democratic National Convention was “disturbing” but “not surprising.”
Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz have been focusing on the abortion issue even before Harris named Waltz to the top of the Democratic presidential nominee list earlier this month. In March, the two toured a Planned Parenthood clinic together in Minnesota, marking the first time a sitting president and vice president had visited an abortion clinic.
“My role is to really articulate these points, as I just did, and continue to articulate them, and bring people together around an issue that is affecting more people than you actually know,” Harris graciously explained to clinic staff during her visit.
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