The caption above says "Good Riddance," and below is the sentence, "This is great news!"
There is a link to a HuffPo piece, which states the following:
More than 50 abortion clinics across the country have closed or stopped offering the procedure since a heavy wave of legislative attacks on providers began in 2010, according to The Huffington Post's nationwide survey of state health departments, abortion clinics and local abortion-focused advocacy groups.
At least 54 abortion providers across 27 states have shut down or ended their abortion services in the past three years, and several more clinics are only still open because judges have temporarily blocked legislation that would make it difficult for them to continue to operate. Nebraska and Massachusetts have each added one clinic since 2010, and the other 21 states and the District of Columbia, most of which have not passed new anti-abortion laws since 2010, were unable to accurately count their clinics because their health departments do not license abortion providers separately from other kinds of medical providers. The Huffington Post's tally did not include hospitals that provide abortions.
"This kind of change is incredibly dramatic," said Elizabeth Nash, state issues manager at the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research organization. "What we've been seeing since 1982 was a slow decline, but this kind of change ... [is] so different from what's happened in the past."
The fact that the closing of these clinics, which do far more than simply provide abortions by the way, is being celebrated by a spoiled, arrogant, over privileged, little bitch is bad enough. But then when you factor in that there are numerous rumors which indicate that both she and her sister have benefited from the services provided by these clinics in the past. it just makes it that much sleazier.
Essentially, much like her turn as the abstinence spokesperson, Bristol is saying "I got mine, now fuck the rest of you!"
By the way also contained in the HuffPo piece are these sad statistics:
While some of the 54 closures were due to unrelated factors, the states that have lost the most clinics over the past three years are the same ones that have seen draconian new abortion restrictions and the biggest cuts to family planning funding. In Texas, which has lost nine clinics, lawmakers have slashed family planning funding in the state budget, required abortion clinics to become ambulatory surgical centers and required abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. Arizona lawmakers passed similar legislation and pushed out a total of 12 providers; the state had 18 abortion clinics in 2010 and now has only six, according to NARAL Pro-Choice Arizona.
"This has turned into a nightmare," said Kat Sabine, executive director of NARAL's Arizona affiliate. "The kind of efforts the women have to take to get family planning or abortion services are just incredible, and you can only get care if you can get out of the community to do it. If you're on a reservation or rural part of the state, unless you have reliable transportation, you're not going to get care."
Only a sociopath celebrates the fact that thousands of young women will now have a far more difficult time getting access to birth control or prenatal care.
At this point I would like to invite any of the numerous young people in Wasilla who know full well just how hypocritical it is of Bristol to be celebrating these closures, to reach out to myself or someone else in the media.
I think it is time past that certain facts were brought out into the open.
I would gladly do it myself, but I need at least one good source with actual firsthand knowledge to come forward first.
