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EXCLUSIVE: A pro-life organization is marking a significant victory as Planned Parenthood revealed plans to close two of its facilities in Houston, Texas, this fall. This development comes amid ongoing efforts by Republican lawmakers to limit the organization’s operations nationwide.
In an exclusive interview, Shawn Carney, the CEO and founder of 40 Days for Life, expressed a feeling of both personal and professional joy regarding the closure of these facilities, including one that he identified as the largest abortion clinic in the Western Hemisphere. Carney, who resides in Houston, stated that this news represents a turning point for the pro-life movement.
“This is massive news for the pro-life movement,” Carney emphasized, “and it signals the downward trajectory of Planned Parenthood.”
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast manages six clinics in the Houston area and two in Louisiana. The organization has announced that its Prevention Park and Southwest centers will close on September 30, with the other Houston facilities being acquired by its largest Texas affiliate.
This announcement follows a series of Planned Parenthood facility closures across different states, including a notable case in New York, where the organization is in the process of selling its sole health center building in Manhattan for $39 million.
Facilities in Republican-led states with stringent abortion restrictions, particularly Texas, have had to halt services following the landmark Supreme Court decision in 2022 that overturned Roe v. Wade. This decision returned the jurisdiction over abortion rights to individual states.
“Now they are closing the largest abortion facility in the world,
