A coalition of pro-life groups celebrated the halting of an abortion facility from opening in Beverly Hills, Calif this past summer after organizing community opposition. The aptly named Stop DuPont Clinic group was established in March 2023 and on July 29 of this year, the announcement that its mission was accomplished was celebrated at a rally in front of the building where the DuPont “all trimester” abortion facility’s lease was revoked.
There are more than two dozen abortion centers in and around Beverly Hills, yet standing against the DuPont Clinic brought the community together.
“If we don’t stop DuPont Clinic, which is the first of its kind in California, we’re gonna see a whole new level of abortion extremism in California,” Tasha Barker, founder of Stop DuPont Clinic, had warned in May on a Community Today podcast.
The DuPont abortion facility was planned to open for business on September 1, the Stop Dupont Clinic group said in a statement, the abortion center having invested hundreds of thousands in building permits and renovations but had not received licensure from the California Department of Public Health.
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A petition against the DuPont Clinic brought in hundreds of signatures over the course of weeks, according to the Stop Dupont Clinic group.
While the sidewalk protest campaign in front of the proposed site was in progress, the Deputy City Manager of Beverly Hills informed the Stop Dupont group via email that the building management company that owned the building rescinded its lease to DuPont Clinic.
Barker and fellow team member Omid Shabani spoke with Pregnancy Help News after the successful thwarting of DuPont’s plans to open the abortion center on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. Both credit the community coming together causing the lease to be revoked.
Multiple pro-life groups waged educational campaigns to inform the residents and business owners of Beverly Hills about the impending opening of the DuPont Clinic, they said.
Pro-abortion measures such as Proposition 1, which codified abortion in the state constitution, may have signaled to the Washington D.C.-based DuPont Clinic that California would be wide open to their business model, which specializes in elective abortion after viability.
Susan Swift, VP of Legal Affairs from the Right to Life League, helped launch the effort of Stop DuPont Clinic.
“Proposition 1 is unconstitutionally vague and overbroad,” Swift said.
The DuPont Clinic’s own website describes the three-day abortion procedure for an abortion with no questions asked, no referral needed after 26 weeks gestation.
The language of the depiction is loaded with softening descriptions such as “brief” “open slowly” “comfortable” “relaxed” “short” to describe the first steps culminating the third day when, “you will receive IV medications to make you feel very comfortable and relaxed, and to control pain.”
DuPont markets their “services” as a spa-like experience, downplaying the pain of a three-day abortion procedure to sound less stressful than a tooth extraction. Only in this case, the party being extracted has his or her own capacity to feel pain. The narrative offered by DuPont makes no mention of any measures taken for the unborn child’s comfort.
Karishma Oza, patient director at the Washington D.C. DuPont Clinic, discussed the late term abortions at the clinic on the Feminist Buzzkills podcast in 2022.
In the discussion Oza was forthright in commenting on the philosophy behind DuPont’s practices.
“I think abortion in all trimesters is beautiful,” stated Oza. “And you know, there is also a myth that abortion in the second and third trimester is only for people experiencing anomalies. That’s also not true.”
Oza bragged about hearing from repeat customers, then further highlighted abortion on-demand for any reason.
“But there’s this misconception that there also has to be something wrong with the pregnancy in order to have an abortion, and that’s just not true,” she said.
The Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust group joined Stop DuPont Clinic in their efforts, with two weeks of demonstrations outside the prospective abortion center site before the lease revocation and in organizing what was to be a prayer rally turned into a worship celebration on July 29.
The Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust group described their efforts to educate the public through demonstrations which include the use of “victim imagery” and information about DuPont Clinic.
The group used the tagline “Something wicked this way comes” to campaign against DuPont.
The line is from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and is a bleak pronouncement of impending evil.
Tim Clement, director of Outreach for Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, spoke to the crowd gathered at the rally, confirming the rescinded building lease.
“We do not want this door opened,” said Clement.
Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust was so determined to prevent viable babies from being slaughtered in Beverly Hills that they utilized a billboard-size LED screen provided by Created Equal to show the images to the locals.
Clement told PHN he was encouraged by the response in Beverly Hills and hopes to see the church stand up and fight against this evil everywhere.
He believes exposing the horrors of abortion is the same as standing up against a bully on a playground where it takes calling out the truth about the innocent being harmed.
The pivotal work in stopping DuPont was diligent legal advocacy paired with community uprising. The hope is that DuPont will face the same obstacle of failure to secure a permit from the California Department of Health should they seek another location in the state.
California Health and Safety code 123468(b) prohibits abortions on a viable fetus.
Barker is hopeful that legal advisors to DuPont have now investigated the law of the state and realize the viability issue will prevent them from establishing a clinic in California.
The prospect of the DuPont abortion facility in Beverly Hills was enough for the community to realize it had dodged a bullet.
The Chief Medical Officer for the abortion center was to be Jennefer Russo, former Medical Director at Planned Parenthood in Orange County, Calif., who was tied to Planned Parenthood profiting from the sale of organs from aborted children.
Whether California’s pro-abortion climate attracted Dupont for its business of aborting viable infants, they have been stopped for now, and the pro-life community will continue to keep watch for the next battle.
