Keeping Abortion Clinics Open Under an Economic “Starvation Diet”

Recorded:
Oct 2024
Speaker
Dr. Warren Hern
Duration
00:01:19
AUDIO CLIP
TRANSCRIPT

Dr. Warren Hern: We have our little problems to deal with, and we’re trying to help patients, we’re trying to help the women who come in and their families. And we can, and we do, and we succeed. Yet, the economic situation makes it virtually impossible. I think I told a reporter the other day, “If I didn’t own the building that we’re in, we might have to close up.” I don’t know what you do. This is how I make my living. It’s how all the people on my staff make their living, and they’re committed to doing it. And they give the best care in the world. There’s no question about it. We give the best care in the world, and it’s very patient-intensive, very scientific, and very compassionate. We do that. It takes a lot of time and money. Before the funding cuts, we had enough money to pay for these services and to feed the patient, take care– we sure weren’t making any money. It isn’t like it’s a lucrative business, okay? This is about managing to get through, okay? And now we’re on a starvation diet. Now there’s not enough money to meet the expenses, and we’re not the only clinic that has this problem. This article in The Nation, this reporter named Susan [Rinkunas] or something, who wrote very detailed description of this for all the different clinics. So this is a national crisis. People either have to be committed to doing this or not. If you’re not committed, you’re going to give up and go do something else.

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