Wichita, Kansas will no longer be abortion free, as the former late-term abortion facility of the late George Tiller now has a new owner.
First Women Foundation has purchased the building, which has been closed since Tiller was shot to death in May of 2009. Operation Rescue President Troy Newman tells OneNewsNow Julie Burkhart, a former employee of Tiller's, has purchased the building.
"Buying a building is not the same as operating an abortion clinic," he states. "So, she can purchase Tiller's old building, but Operation Rescue is going to make sure it's neither reputable [n]or profitable."
And he stresses that Operation Rescue, which has a history of pressuring the abortion industry, is committed to keeping Wichita abortion free.
Burkhart has spent three years raising money to reopen the clinic, but Newman raises the question of profitability.
"Julie Burkhart has to get donations to capitalize her abortion clinic. Abortion is not profitable," the pro-lifer asserts. "It's a dying business, literally, on several different levels. So, I don't think that she can maintain an abortion clinic, if she can even open it as it stands."
Newman adds that abortion legislation has changed in Kansas over the past few years, making it "very, very difficult for any new abortion clinic to operate successfully." He also points out that Burkhart had to go to Tiller's family "because no one else would sell [the First Women Foundation] a building."