Anti-abortion activists are calling on the UW Health Clinic to cancel its plan to open an abortion clinic in downtown Madison. But a spokeswoman for UW Health says opposition to the clinic is premature because there’s been no final decision to actually open it.
About sixty protesters lined the sidewalk in front of the UW Clinic yesterday holding signs saying “Abortion is Not Health Care.” The leader of the vigil, Steve Karlen, says he hopes the large turn out will convince the doctors who plan to open the clinic to reconsider.
“Weâ??re asking the university not to take this facility, which is a beautiful medical facility that should be the pride and joy of Madison and the pride and joy of Wisconsin, weâ??re asking them not to turn it in to a place of death and a killing center.” (Third item.)