In State Records, Little Evidence to Back Stricter Abortion Law

[Scrabaholic]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/u...dence-to-back-stricter-abortion-law.html?_r=0

In their successful push this summer for strict new regulations on abortion facilities and the doctors performing them, proponents said the legislation was needed because conditions at existing facilities made it unsafe for women seeking to terminate pregnancies.

But a Texas Tribune review of state inspection records for 36 abortion clinics from the year preceding the lawmakers’ vote turned up little evidence to suggest that the facilities were putting patients in imminent danger. State auditors identified 19 regulatory violations that they said presented a risk to patient safety at six licensed abortion clinics that are not ambulatory surgical centers in Texas. None of the violations was severe enough to warrant financial penalties, according to the Department of State Health Services, which deemed the facilities’ corrective action plans sufficient to protect patients.

 

[year2late]

We all knew it was about politics and not about the welfare of women, right?

 

[Fisher]

We all knew it was about politics and not about the welfare of women, right?

Doesn't matter. The right side of the issue has the momentum.

 

[year2late]

Doesn't matter. The right side of the issue has the momentum.

So politics trumps facts on the Right?

We knew that as well.

Over and over and over and over and over.

Thank you for reminding us.

 

[Fisher]

So politics trumps facts on the Right?

We knew that as well.

Over and over and over and over and over.

Thank you for reminding us.

It does on both sides. Either way, I don't care about protecting people's "freedom of choice" to destroy an innocent life.

 

[Jerry]

We all knew it was about politics and not about the welfare of women, right?

Just like gun control is not about public safety, yes.

 

[choiceone]

Doesn't matter. The right side of the issue has the momentum.

That isn't momentum. It's the death rattle of the anti-abortion movement.

 

[choiceone]

It does on both sides. Either way, I don't care about protecting people's "freedom of choice" to destroy an innocent life.

It's not innocent in the sense of harmless if the woman does not want it implanted in her flesh. That's the same sort of legal innocence that a legally insane rapist has. The woman in the process of being raped has the right to kill the rapist if that's the only way to get his thing out of her and stop the rape, even if the rapist is legally insane and therefore, after the rape is over, the rapist cannot be found guilty of rape in a court of law.

 

[Fisher]

That isn't momentum. It's the death rattle of the anti-abortion movement.

That abortion clinics are shutting down or being shut down is only the death rattle to the extent that we move closer to zero. Any medical procedure that results in the intended death of a person, is inherently unsafe.

 

[choiceone]

That abortion clinics are shutting down or being shut down is only the death rattle to the extent that we move closer to zero. Any medical procedure that results in the intended death of a person, is inherently unsafe.

Then medically mediated childbirth, both vaginally and by C-section, is inherently unsafe. What is any anti-abortion man thinking when he has sex with a woman? Any man who is not pro-choice on the issue of the legality of abortion and nonetheless asks a woman to have sex with him is an inherent killer with a killer intent.

 

[GEIxBattleRifle]

That abortion clinics are shutting down or being shut down is only the death rattle to the extent that we move closer to zero.

Right this was the talk last year and the US still had over 1.2 million abortions done