We Want Abortion Legal, Safe and Rare.
Posted by: tony on 08/23/2007 10:31 PM
Updated by: tony on 08/23/2007 10:31 PM
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Expires: 09/23/2007 12:00 AM
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Isn't that the rallying cry of pro-abortion advocates?
So far, in most cases, we're one out of three. Missouri is working on the other two of them.
Jefferson City, Aug 22, 2007 / 10:43 am (CNA).- Planned Parenthood filed a federal lawsuit Monday seeking to strike down a new Missouri law that requires abortion clinics to meet the same state health and safety standards already applied to other types of ambulatory surgical centers.
As a "woman's health center", which one assumes is medical, wouldn't one assume that they would have to adhere to the same standards to which other outpatient surgical centers would have to adhere.
I guess that wasn't the case until now. Missouri is planning on rectifying the situation to make abortion safer in their state.
The federal lawsuit contends that the law, which takes effect Aug. 28, would infringe on abortion rights, and asks a judge for an injunction blocking it.
I'm not a lawyer, but I don't understand how mandating safety standards infringes on abortion rights. But people much smarter than I are going to be working it out.
Among the new requirements noted in the lawsuit: outpatient surgery centers must have halls at least six feet wide and doors at least 44 inches wide; there must be separate male and female changing rooms for personnel; and a recovery room with space for at least four beds with three feet of clearance around each.
Halls big enough to accomodate stretchers, separate changing rooms to protect staff privacy, and a big eoungh recovery room to protect patient privacy, and allow staff to move freely and quickly around them.
I always thought that abortion proponents were big on the right to privacy, since that non-existant (in the Constitution anyway) "right" is the basis of Roe v. Wade. Guess privacy doesn't apply within their clinics.
Planned Parenthood claims the law could eliminate abortion services in parts of the state by subjecting clinics to stringent state oversight. The required renovations, it claims, are costly and "medically unnecessary."
You'll have to excuse me if I don't get all choked up about this. If they are medically unnecessary, then the rest of the ambulatory surgery centers are being subjected to useless burdens with regard to state regulation.
In particular, Planned Parenthood fears the law could put two of its abortion centers — one in Columbia and the other in Kansas City — out of business. Planned Parenthood contends that already existing facilities should be exempt from meeting the new physical requirements.
The third abortion clinic that would remain open is in St. Louis.
Now we get to the rare part. I'd prefer to see Missouri bat 1.000, but .666 (hmmm... :)) isn't too bad. Better than A. Rod.
According to an AP report, Missouri's pro-life majority in the state legislature contends the law is necessary to ensure the health and safety of women seeking abortions.
Republican state Sen. Delbert Scott, a lead sponsor of the legislation, said he believes it is fair to regulate abortions like other procedures.
Who could be against women's safety? What we have been seeing both on Dawn Eden's and Jill Stanek's blogs is abortion clinics no more clean than a back alley, and instruments designed to go inside a woman no more sterile than a coat hanger. Worse, because some of these clinics were not sterilizing the equipment from woman to woman. At least a coat hanger doesn't have some other woman's bodily fluids on it.
And Senator Scott is right. It's time for these abortion clinics to move from the 19th century to the 21st.
I think prayers are in order as this lawsuit wends through the courts.
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle.
Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil.
May God rebuke him we humbly pray.
And do thou, o prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan, and all the other evil spirits who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls.
Amen.
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