Whole Woman’s Health Alliance just became Indiana’s first abortion facility to close following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision last summer.
Since opening its doors in 2019, Whole Women’s Health Alliance (WWHA) in South Bend, Indiana, executed more than 1,100 abortions. The facility still plans to refer callers to other abortion providers and to help pay and coordinate travel for out-of-state abortions but announced on Monday that it will permanently cease personally ending unborn lives immediately due to “politically driven and medically unnecessary abortion restrictions.”
“Whole Woman’s Health has ended the lives of 1000+ preborn [H]oosiers and victimized
thousands of women since opening in 2019,” Voices for Life Executive Director Melanie Garcia
Lyon said in a statement. “This is a victory for human rights in our community.”
Lyon, who is also the Sidewalk Advocates for Life leader for the South Bend chapter, told The Federalist that the closure feels “really surreal” given all of the time her organization spent praying for it to shutter its doors and offering life-affirming resources to pregnant women outside of the facility.
“We’ve been at the facility since it opened in 2019. I was there the first day it opened in June. And we’ve had a very consistent presence at the facility whenever it’s been open we’ve had volunteers there,” she said.
Shortly after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb and the state’s Republican legislators acted swiftly to protect babies in utero except in cases of rape, incest,
