Sunset Park clinic stops performing abortions
A Sunset Park women’s health center that has been at the center of the abortion debate in Brooklyn for more than two decades will no longer be performing the procedure.
The surprising announcement by Terry Lazar, the owner of the Ambulatory Surgery Center, 313 43rd St., that the clinic is no longer an abortion provider was hailed by the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and pro-life groups but was scorned by pro-choice advocates.
Lazar told the New York Daily News in an article published on Oct. 1 that the health center, which performed other types of procedures in addition to abortions, was the target of pro-life protesters for many years and that it was adversely affecting business.