Abortion provider Marie Stopes has announced that it will close four of its regional clinics in Queensland and New South Wales due to financial issues brought on by the CCP virus pandemic. This comes about a week before Queensland MP George Christensen is due to present his private member’s bill to Parliament on June 21, which would make it illegal for healthcare workers not to provide life-saving treatment to babies that survive abortions. “It is with great sadness that we’ve had to take the decision to close our regional clinics in Rockhampton, Townsville, Southport and Newcastle in August,” Marie Stopes said in a statement on June 17. “We fought long and hard alongside our passionate and dedicated staff and our supporters to keep these clinics open, but as a result of COVID-19 and the cost of running these clinics in regional areas, we can no longer do it.” The abortion provider’s …