Healthcare professionals have had to take every measure available to them to both protect themselves from the worldwide novel coronavirus and see to it that their patients are well-cared-for and have the medical aid they need. While several states have already closed all nonessential businesses, Ohio, Texas, Kentucky, and others have both decided to protect women and demand abortion clinics, also stop “nonessential and elective surgeries.”

Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union have sued a handful of states to stop the orders. But abortion is not healthcare, and hundreds of abortion clinics are unsanitary — filthy, ideal locations for pandemics to spread. This is why all abortion clinics should be shuttered right now, for both the protection of women and those who work in the clinics.