I've been noting for years that outside of major cities, abortion cannot pay the bills for those operating the clinics, because at ~$500 per abortion and ~500 abortions per abortionist, the revenue cannot possibly pay the bills for a whole clinic. Enter the state of New Mexico, which is spending ten million dollars to create an abortion clinic in Dona Ana County, about 50 miles from El Paso.
Now I had previously noted that with the then-prevailing wage for obstetricians being about a quarter million dollars annually plus benefits (probably 30% higher today), you can really only justify an "abortion only" clinic when you get to cities of a million or more--assuming that abortion clinics are really pretty "lean" in their operation (not much for buildings or auxiliary staff) and the "doctor" gets a large share of the revenue.
However, with the Governor of New Mexico admitting that building the building and setting it up is going to require about ten times more money than I'd counted on, but the nearby city--El Paso--is really only about 900,000 people. So Governor Grisham has informed the nation, inadvertently, that the economics of abortion are far, far worse than I would have guessed. Thank you, Governor.
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