Southwestern late-term abortion center

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November 2009

Late-term abortion facility opens in Dallas.

Fairmount abortion center relocates to new facility with new name and new mission: To perform as many as 2,000 late-term abortions in Dallas every year.

At 24 weeks old, a mother has been carrying around a life within her for roughly six months. By this time, the baby is almost a foot long, taste buds are developing, lungs are already developing, ears are fully functioning, their sense of balance is working and they can tell whether they are upside down or right side up.

When a mother climbs the steps to the Southwestern late-term abortion center, doing business as "Southwestern Women's Surgery Center" in north Dallas, this all ends. Don’t let the generic name fool you. The only surgeries performed at the center are the removal of up to 24-week-old babies from their mothers' wombs, but the real nature of the center doesn’t fit as well on a business card.

Abortion has deep-rooted ties in our community. It was here at the courthouse in downtown Dallas that the tragic Roe vs. Wade case, legalizing abortion in America by a 7-2 ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court on January 22, 1973, was first filed in 1970. It was here in Dallas immediately following the Supreme Court ruling that Dr. Curtis Boyd opened the first abortion center in the state of Texas, the Fairmount abortion center. The consequences of the events that transpired in Dallas so long ago have spread like a plague on our nation, killing not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of unborn children, tiny bodies with full lives and full souls and full hearts.

The Southwestern late-term abortion center at 8616 Greenville Avenue is not a new foe, but comes from the same string of killing that was done since 1973 at the Fairmount abortion center near Uptown. On their website, they clearly state that they are “affiliated with Fairmount Center and Aaron Women’s Center" (the last late-term abortion center in Dallas that closed its doors in August 2008). The connecting link among the three facilities is abortionist Curtis Boyd.

Who is Curtis Boyd?

In a November 2009 interview with Channel 8 News, Boyd admitted to performing 300,000 abortions in his facilities since 1973.

"For us, since we'll be serving such a large area, we'll probably see 2,000 second trimester [late-term] abortions a year," Boyd stated about the new late-term center.

“By providing abortion services, we are in fact helping to make the world a better place,” Boyd said in the 2002 ironically-titled documentary "Life Matters: The Story of an Illegal Abortionist."

• Fact: A 22-year-old woman, Vanessa Preston, died in Boyd’s care in 1980. Was her world made a better place? Was the world of the husband and child she left behind made a better place?

In the same 2002 documentary, Boyd’s life story is heroically described, “In an era when women could not get legal abortions, there were only a handful of courageous doctors who risked imprisonment, loss of license, and their future in order to provide safe abortions to women… Dr. Curtis Boyd, was one such individual. A one-time Pentecostal preacher, Dr. Boyd was influenced by the social changes of the Sixties… as a small town physician he performed thousands of abortions to desperate women…”

In 1992, TIME Magazine featured Boyd in an article entitled "Abortion: The Future Is Already Here," which portrayed Boyd as a victim whose dream of providing late-term abortions to desperate women “came under siege for weeks by antiabortion demonstrators.”

Boyd is neither a misunderstood victim nor hero of a movement. He is an abortionist. Who is coming under siege from whom, Boyd or the 24-week-old babies who can hear and kick, being violently ripped from their mothers' wombs? When a woman in crisis chooses to keep her baby against the wishes of her boyfriend or mother, or carry her baby to term and place the baby with a loving and willing family, she is the real hero.

What can you do?

The women who come to Boyd for help out of their “problem” don’t need an abortion. They need physical, emotional and spiritual help to deal with the crisis situation they and their families are in. They need someone to say, “I’m praying for you. You are not a terrible person for not being able to keep your child. I’ve been in your shoes, I know what you’re going through, and I can help you if you’re willing to be helped.”

We need you, friends of life, to come and pray peacefully; we need ordinary people just like you and me to train as sidewalk counselors; we need Gabriel Angels to be a bridge for these women after they courageously decide to carry their babies to term. We need you to courageously share this information with your friends and family because it’s the truth and because it can save a life.

As always, we use our most powerful tool, prayer, to close this “wound” on our community. We pray for the conversion of Dr. Boyd, his wife Glenna Halvorson-Boyd, and all the abortion center workers, that they may use the gifts God gave them to bring life into this world, not pain. We pray that God will continue to close and heal all these “wounds” in Dallas and in the world.

It started here. Let's end it here.

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