A late-term abortion facility in Beverly Hills, which was known as the Abortion Clinic to the Stars, has closed and its office has been vacated.
According to a business record obtained by Operation Rescue, the Sinai Women’s Center, which also went by the name Pro-Choice Medical Center, had its last day of business on December 31, 2020. The office was vacated over the weekend of January 30-31, 2021, according to a city official.
The abortion business, which was owned and operated by abortionist Josepha Seletz, was one of eight abortion facilities to openly conduct risky, multi-day abortions into the third trimester of pregnancy.
Ambulances were a frequent sight outside the Beverly Hills office on La Cienega Boulevard. Operation Rescue documented ten medical emergencies there that required ambulance transport to a local hospital during the last three years of the facility’s operation, nine of which occurred in 2018-2019.
Last year, due to Covid-19, the Pro-Choice Medical Center scaled back its abortion business, conducting only first trimester surgical abortions for several months, before resuming later abortions on a limited basis through the sixth month of pregnancy at the end of the year.
The Beverly Hills facility catered to the upper class of society, charging $1,200 for a routine first trimester abortion – almost twice national average cost in 2020 of $612. Later abortions at the once-exclusive facility could cost tens of thousands of dollars.
For an additional charge, Seletz also offered private abortion appointments to those such as Hollywood celebrities and socialites, who did not want to be seen in an abortion facility waiting room.
Ironically, despite the fact that Seletz conducted the riskiest of all abortion procedures late into pregnancy, she declined to offer abortion-inducing drugs and posted the following notice on her website sometime in 2013, warning of the dangers of the abortion drug Mifepristone, also known as RU489:
“Dr. Seletz no longer offers routine medical abortions with RU486 following reports of serious complications associated with this method (Fischer et al; N Engl J Med 2005: 353:2352-60)….”
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The above comes from a Feb. 8 release from Operation Rescue.
Probably couldn’t charge as much for the RU drug than for surgical abortions…high profile, prominent abortionist disapproving of this modality could certainly promote high profile, wealthy clients to seek her out…no virtue there at all…
I fully understand this site’s point of view and desired outcome of zero abortion, but let’s remember this is Beverly Hills, a rather unique spot where expensive clothes and posh restaurants are the norm, not the exception. Of course abortions (other procedures are not mentioned… how do they compare? More expensive? less?). The place closed, and likely COVID and other factors induced that decision. I wonder about the ten times ambulances showed up – for some non-critical thinkers, one would think those operations were somehow connected with abortive procedures, or at least give the appearance that most if not all facilities that provide abortions are inherently dangerous, such as one might want this site to believe about Planned Parenthood clinics. That same paradigm is akin to a media site pointing out a given diocese having priests as pedophiles, implying all diocese are riddled with the same. So now that the clinic is closed, is one to assume now that pregnancies and the regrettable abortions that sometimes accompany them will diminish? I rather doubt it – again, the lack of facilities causes abortions to simply be moved to another spot.
Maybe biolab traffickers won’t pay for ‘specimens’ tainted with RU486.
It’s a grim business, Hymie.
But your logic, as always, is impeccable.
Hymie does really know how to get down to the “nitty, gritty” at times.
Let us hope and pray, though, that this abortionist finally stops doing abortions — for the sake of her own soul, and that of the women and the lives of their children.
Cheers.