Abortion provider at center of Dobbs case plans to open New Mexico clinic

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A number of hundred pro-life advocates have been gathered for a pro-life rally in Las Cruces the night of July 19 when Mark Cavaliere, govt director of the Southwest Coalition for Life, made a shock announcement.

He mentioned the pro-life group had simply leased property subsequent door to an abortion clinic to be opened by the Mississippi abortion supplier that was on the middle of the Dobbs v. Jackson Ladies’s Well being Group case addressed by the U.S. Supreme Courtroom.

In a June 24 ruling within the case, the excessive courtroom overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade choice and returned abortion to the states to manage.

“Our nation has taken an enormous leap ahead with the overturn of Roe,” acknowledged Cavaliere, “however New Mexico has taken a blow. We’re going from having 5 abortion services within the state to triple, possibly even quadruple, that quantity. In our tradition, every thing about ladies has been vilified.”

“We have to work to finish abortion, however we’ve to do extra to revive the sanctity of womanhood,” he mentioned.

Cavaliere invited the group to “present all of the well being care companies that organizations like Deliberate Parenthood faux to do. … Let’s truly step up and do extra to offer life-affirming well being care.”

He mentioned Las Cruces has grow to be “the epicenter of post-Roe America” with the Mississippi abortion supplier coming “to do surgical abortions, to the second and probably third trimester.”

“If ever there was a spot to reply to a problem like we’re dealing with, it’s Las Cruces, the Metropolis of the Crosses,” he added. “We’ve seen what God can do. If ever there was a folks to stand up and say that ladies deserve higher that abortion and we’re going to be those to provide them higher — it’s the folks right here.”

The brand new Guiding Star well being middle, as it is going to be referred to as, will present ladies with fertility care, being pregnant and childbirth, lactation and household life companies. Solely a driveway will separate it from the deliberate abortion clinic.

Terri Herring, president, of Select Life Mississippi in Jackson, mentioned the proprietor of Jackson Ladies’s Well being, Diane Derzis shut down her “pink home” of abortion after she misplaced her lawsuit towards Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks and determined to return to Las Cruces and open a brand new abortion facility.

Within the Dobbs ruling, the excessive courtroom upheld the state’s ban in a 6-3 vote; a 5-4 vote overturned Roe.

Herring mentioned Derzis had beforehand been run out of Birmingham, Alabama, and he or she urged the group to “free New Mexico from being a refuge for abortion.”

Leah Jacobson, founder and CEO of the Nationwide Guiding Star Challenge, famous that is the primary time that one of many pro-life community’s facilities has opened up proper subsequent to an abortion supplier.

Jacobson and Guiding Star give attention to addressing the basis causes that drive ladies to decide on abortion.

“We have to take heed to the voices of girls which can be feeling that abortion is their most suitable choice,” Jacobson mentioned as she shared statistics of why ladies search abortions. “Being pregnant is just not a illness! There’s nothing wholesome about destroying a wonderfully functioning feminine physique.”

New Mexico state Sen. David Gallegos reminded rally contributors that “the vital factor is that the governor desires to make New Mexico an abortion vacation spot.”

On June 27, New Mexico’s Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, signed an govt order to safeguard abortion entry and shield the state’s medical suppliers from makes an attempt at authorized retribution for offering abortions.

In a tweet June 24 posted shortly after the Supreme Courtroom issued its Dobbs ruling, Lujan Grisham mentioned: “I’ll proceed to battle for the correct to a protected, authorized abortion in New Mexico and stand as a brick wall towards those that search to punish ladies and their docs for searching for care.”

Gallegos criticized the shortage of parental discover, reminding the group that their minor daughters can’t be given an aspirin with out parental permission, but these younger women can have an abortion carried out on them with out their mother and father ever being advised.

He additionally emphasised the significance of voting pro-life.

Dominique Davis, govt director of Challenge Defending Life in Albuquerque, advised rallygoers that New Mexico’s pro-life being pregnant care facilities at present outnumber abortion services three to 1. However the abortion business is pouring thousands and thousands of {dollars} to open extra abortion services within the state, she mentioned.

Davis mentioned Lujan Grisham helps abortion for any cause by way of all 9 months of being pregnant, and he or she urged the group to assist construct a “tradition of life within the Land of Enchantment.”

Mary Solorza, president of College students for Life at New Mexico State College, roused the group, declaring that she and her friends are dedicated to creating their campus pregnancy- and parent-friendly.

“We’re the post-Roe era, ladies deserve higher than abortion!” Solorza mentioned.

Father Alejandro Reyes, rector of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Coronary heart of Mary in Las Cruces, opened the rally with prayer and his personal testimony.

He shared how his mom had been pressured to abort him by his father, however regardless of pressures and challenges, she selected life.

At the moment, the priest mentioned, he serves as “a voice to the unvoiced, the unborn youngsters liable to abortion.”