Medical waste company terminates contracts with abortion providers

A U.S. medical waste company has stopped providing its services to abortion centers, including the EMW Women's Surgical Center in Louisville, which is the last remaining abortion provider in Kentucky.

According to Life Site News, the pro-life group Created Equal was able to confirm in a phone call that Specific Waste Industries had terminated its contract with EMW Women's Surgical Center and other abortion facilities in the Midwest.

"We have discontinued our contract with them," a staff reportedly said on the phone. When asked again for confirmation, the staffer replied, "No, we are no longer in service with them."

The news came after Created Equal launched a campaign last month to persuade medical waste companies to stop providing their services to abortion clinics.

The group had surmised that it would make it harder for abortion clinics to perform the procedure if no company is willing to dispose of aborted babies. Earlier this year, the medical waste firm Stericycle disclosed that it had canceled its contracts with abortion facilities after CreatedEqual launched the campaign.

"On November 7, 2017, having proven the concept, Created Equal launched phase two of #ProjectWeakLink, aimed at persuading Specific Waste Industries to stop enabling the abortion cartel by disposing of aborted babies," the group said.

"On November 10, 2017, Specific Waste revealed that they had ceased to provide medical waste services for Kentucky's last remaining abortion clinic and Planned Parenthood centers in the Midwest," it added.

Mark Harrington, National Director of Created Equal, said that his group will "trust but verify" Specific Waste's claim regarding its refusal to provide its services to abortion clinics.

He noted that Created Equal is also in the process of finding out whether any other company has stepped in to replace Specific Waste in disposing of aborted babies from abortion centers.

Life News reported that Stericycle had sued Created Equal and Harrington after the pro-life group launched the project to expose the connection between the medical waste company and abortion giant Planned Parenthood. However, Stericycle eventually dropped all charges against the pro-life group after a six-month court battle.

In May, Created Equal wrote a letter to Stericycle's CEO, Charles Alutto, asking for information about the status of the company's relationship with Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry.

In a response letter dated June 1, Alutto stressed that the company's "waste acceptance policy clearly specifies that Stericycle does not accept fetuses."

"While your organization may argue that our policy applies only to intact fetuses, we interpret and apply the policy more broadly to include all fetal remains," Alutto continued.

He also noted that the company does not provide services to health care facilities who are not willing to provide supplemental assurances that they have licensed providers for fetal remains.

Stericycle has revealed that it has canceled over 400 contracts with abortion facilities in the past few years.

Harrington noted that the abortion clinics that are currently serviced by Stericycle are subject to the waste acceptance protocol, and they need to provide supplemental assurances, making it harder for the abortion industry to find waste companies willing to dispose of aborted fetuses.