Planned parenthood center in the world will close due to lack of funds

Planned Parenthood has announced the closure of two of its six centers in the area of Houston, Texas (United States) including its headquarters of Prevention Park, which was known as the largest installation of abortions of the Western hemisphere until the almost total prohibition of abortion in the state in 2022.

In an interview with CNA – Ewtn News Administration -, Texas Right to Life president, Dr. John Seago, described the closure of Prevention Park as an “absolute victory for life.”

At its peak, this center aborted 10,000 babies a year, until 24 weeks of gestation, according to Shawn Carney, founder and executive director of the provida group 40 Days for Life (40 days for life)whose headquarters in Bryan, Texas, is located in an old abortion center near Texas A&M University.

“There has not been a more exciting moment to be provident,” Carney told CNA, stating that the closure of the installation is one of the “greatest victories” in the history of the province movement.

Seago described the structure of 7,246 square meters, which according to him resembles a Central American pyramid where human sacrifices were performed, as a “symbol of the apogee of the power and influence of Planned Parenthood.”

Carney commented that the volunteers felt “overwhelmed” and “depressed” when he saw how big the abortions was, sometimes feeling that “all hope was lost.”

“If you go from that moment to see the building closing, it’s incredible,” he said.

Located next to the busy Gulf Freeway Highway at the East End of Houston, a Hispanic neighborhood near the University of Houston, which has 50,000 students, the Planned Park Parenthouse Parenthood Coast headquarters also houses the administrative offices of the region.

“The thousands of Provides who have prayed out of there” over the years “are celebrating,” said Carney.

“For a long time the Church was taught that its teachings were archaic,” he said, but these closures show that culture is finally awakening “the teachings of natural law.”

The closure of the largest center of the abortion giant, which both Seago and Carney described as “symbolic”, follows more than two dozen closures of Planned Parenthood facilities in recent months.

The most recent closure occurs after years of fund cuts by the Texas Legislature, which reduced financing for Planned Parenthood and other abortions in 2011, which led to the closure of 82 centers throughout the state, and excluded Planned Parenthood from its medical program in 2021 after a legal battle.

In 2019, the Legislature approved the Senate Law 22, which prohibits local governments from hiring Planned Parenthood for any service, including those not related to abortion.

The recent emblematic legislative victory of the Trump Administration, the One Big Beautiful Bill Law, includes a provision that ends for a year to medical payments to abortions such as Planned Parenthood. However, a federal judge blockade The provision on July 28, After issuing a partial preliminary court last week.

The president and executive director of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Melaney Linton, told Houston Chronicle that “having to reduce the staff and the future presence of (Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast) in Houston is a heartbreaking, outrageous and the direct result of these sustained political attacks.”

Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, which has operated in the Houston area for more than 90 years, manages six centers in the Houston metropolitan area and two in Louisiana. It will close its prevention Park and Southwest centers on September 30. The remaining four centers in Houston will be acquired by the Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas subsidiary.

Once the remaining four centers in Houston are acquired, Planned Parenthood Greater Texas will operate 22 centers in the state. Seven other centers in the San Antonio area are operated by Planned Parenthood South Texas.

The centers now depend on the support of donors, since much of their financing has been cut, according to a spokesman for the Gulf Coast subsidiary.

Translated and adapted by the ACI Press team. Originally published in CNA.