In the musical 1776, Roy Poole, the actor playing delegate Steven Hopkins of Rhode Island, shouts to John Callum, who played Edward Rutledge of South Carolina, on slavery, “It’s a stinking business, Mr Rutledge, a stinking business!” That’s how I see abortion, and I am appalled that anyone would willingly be a part of it.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 940 OB/GYNs employed in Georgia in May of 2010, the fifth highest in the nation. The ‘location quotient’ for OB/GYNs in the Peachtree State was 1.38; BLS defines the term as:

The location quotient is the ratio of the area concentration of occupational employment to the national average concentration. A location quotient greater than one indicates the occupation has a higher share of employment than average, and a location quotient less than one indicates the occupation is less prevalent in the area than average.

There are 21 OB/GYNs employed in Georgia per 100,000 population, which is the highest number in the South, and one of the highest in the nation, but somehow, Planned Parenthood can’t find anyone in the Peachtree State willing to perform preborn infanticides!

Planned Parenthood Has Quietly Stopped Providing Abortions in Georgia and Alabama

Independent clinics have been “deeply impacted” by the move in a region with already dwindling access to reproductive health care.

By Susan Rinkunas | Thursday, April 28, 2022 | 8:55 PM | Updated: Friday, April 29, 2022 | 10:00 AM

Planned Parenthood quietly stopped scheduling abortions this month at its clinics in Georgia and Alabama and canceled some existing appointments, due to what it said were staffing issues at its Southeast affiliate. The organization said the change is temporary, but did not say when it would resume care. In the meantime, the clinics are referring people to other providers.

“We have elected to scale back some of our services across the affiliate while we onboard new staff at our health centers and at the executive level,” the spokesperson said in response to questions from Jezebel. “This is a temporary change, and we expect to again be operating at full capacity by the end of the month.” There are two days left in the month and it does not appear that abortions will resume in that time frame.

“(S)taffing issues”? What are “staffing issues,” the euphemism used by writer Susan Rinkunas.

Robin Marty, director of operations at West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa, told Jezebel in a statement that WAWC has been trying to cope in recent weeks with an influx of patients after Planned Parenthood canceled their appointments.

“The Deep South is one of the most difficult regions to find a provider to work in, and we understand how very lucky we are to have someone local to provide abortions five days a week. This discontinuation of abortion services has definitely impacted our own staff—who have already been working extra hours to meet the influx of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas patients—and are now adding these patients who have had their previously booked Planned Parenthood appointments canceled on them,” Marty said. “My clinic staff are exhausted. They are anxious. But they also remain completely committed to our mission: making sure every person can obtain a legal abortion for as long as the courts allow.”

Ahhh, “staffing issues” means a “provider.” In abortion-speak, a provider is a licensed physician who is willing to perform preborn infanticides.

Planned Parenthood did not announce that abortions were halted in these two states — it apparently just cancelled people’s appointments without warning. Before the pause in services, PP had at least three clinics that provided abortions in Georgia and two in Alabama.

Translation: Planned Parenthood did not want to announce, to the public, that abortion is such a stinking business that almost no one wants to be an abortionist!

The Jezebel story also referenced a Reuters profile of Dr Shelly Tien, who travels frequently across state lines to perform abortions:

She’s among an estimated 50 doctors who travel across state lines, according to the National Abortion Federation, to provide abortions in places with limited abortion access.

Now, why would this be necessary?

Abortion clinics in at least six states – including those in Oklahoma and Alabama where Tien works – rely entirely on out-of-state doctors to provide abortions.

Safety concerns and the stigma around abortion keep many local doctors in conservative states from performing abortions, said Zack Gingrich-Gaylord, a spokesperson for Trust Women Oklahoma.

One wonders: would those on the left who have been oh-so-supportive of Taylor Lorenz and The Washington Post doxxing of Chaya Raichik, a Brooklyn real estate saleswoman who anonymously created and runs the Twitter site Libs of TikTok similarly agree that it is legitimate to dox abortionists?

Well, whether they’d agree or not — and don’t wonder about it; of course they’d be appalled! — it seems that the vast, vast majority of American physicians, whether they philosophically support abortion or not, do not want to have anything to do with abortion personally. Perhaps some have done so before, and have become revolted by what they’ve done. Others might wish to avoid what even Reuters called the “stigma around abortion”, perhaps supporting abortion as a concept, but very much preferring to let other people do the dirty work. And perhaps some don’t want their wives to have to introduce them as, “My husband, Dr Jones, the abortionist.”

Both federal and state laws allow health care professionals to refuse to provide abortions or abortion related services, something the supposedly Catholic Joe Biden would like to change. The left are appalled that most American medical schools decline to provide training on abortion, and want to change that, but there’s an obvious problem: if so few physicians want to get involved in providing abortions, why waste time and money training them. Currently, most preborn infanticide training is provided after hours by current preborn infant murderers.

I stated in the beginning that I am appalled that anyone would willingly be a part of providing abortions, and it seems that, for the vast majority of physicians, that’s very much the case. We should do what we can to maintain and increase that stigma, to persuade even more physicians that it’s far, far better for them not to be a part of that stinking business.