The Virginia State Senate voted yesterday by a 20-20 vote (tie broken by Republican Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling) to require the abortion clinics in Virginia to be regulated like hospitals. Democrats and women's rights advocates were not thrilled, as they expect the regulatory rules to result in the closing of a number of the clinics. Richard Saslaw, a Democrat from northern Virginia, reacted angrily to the vote, stating that "It's abortion... it isn't about women's health."
In fact the effort to regulate abortion clinics was a thinly veiled effort to end abortion in the state through regulatory means, since the votes to end it by legal means were not there. This from Republicans who hate regulations in every other case. Regulate payday lenders? No. Regulate the mortgage industry? No. Regulate gun sales to insane people at gun shows? No. Regulate abortion clinics? Yes.
I realize that these are politicians who basically conceive of abortion as baby murder, okay. But I am reminded perversely of the WMD thing that got us into Iraq. Do you remember that, back in 2002? The Bush administration rightly concluded that there was inadequate public devotion to regime change in Iraq, so a careful campaign was undertaken to portray Saddam Hussein as the Best Bud of Osama Bin Laden, and to portray him as possessing a massive arsenal of WMD weaponry targeted at the USA. No substance to either accusation, and it was quite clear at the time that there was no substance to the accusations. But GWB got his way. And guess what, things that start with a lie, do not end well.
SO- the lie here is basically- "we are going to regulate abortion clinics for the safety of the women who use them." Okay, show me the dead bodies of the women who received faulty medical care at abortion clinics. You don't have any dead bodies? Gee, why am I not surprised. It's not about the women, it's about their six week embryos. And in the meantime, I remember all the election promises, we are going to focus like a laser on fiscal and employment issues, this is not about breathing new life into the culture wars.......
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For the most part the only time things go wrong is when those regulations aren't enforced ~ as in the case of the abortionist in Philadephia who has been charged in the deaths of live born babies and a 41-year-old female patient. Kermit Gosnell and his staff were improperly licences and weren't even following basic sanitary regulations. There are claims that complaints were filed with the licensing board but they were never investigated.
Cases like these are wake up call to regulators to do their jobs and enforce the rules that are already in place, not to create new rules that have nothing to do with women's health and everything to do with controlling women's bodies.
These same politicians are also the first ones to cut healthcare for poor children, nutrition programs for poor woman and children, school funding, prenatal programs for poor women-notice a pattern here?
These people want to 'protect' women out of every right we have.
Can't think of any, but there probably are some who received "Coat Hanger" abortions in back alleys, because they didn't have a clinic to go to.....