Planned Parenthood Is Concerned About the Health of Women. Honestly.
That's why they're going to court in order to avoid having to pass basic health inspections.
By Leon H Wolf Posted in Life Issues — Comments (11) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Fresh on the heels of this story about the horrific and unsanitary conditions that run rampant in abortion clinics, the Missouri chapter of Planned Parenthood has decided to help the image of the abortion industry out yet more by suing to prevent enforcement of a law that would require abortion clinics to meet the health standards of a basic walk-in clinic. Every day we are given constant reminders that "safe, legal and rare" is really just a euphemism for "legal."
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Georgette Forney, co-founder of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, a national network of women and men harmed by abortion, says Planned Parenthood should be more concerned about the health of women.
"Planned Parenthood claims that if it had to meet basic safety requirements for outpatient clinics, two of its abortion centers would go out of business," she told LifeNews.com.
"That speaks volumes not only about the conditions of those clinics, but also Planned Parenthood's concern for the well being of the women it claims to serve," Forney added.
Janet Morana, also a co-founder of the group, agreed that women's safety should come first and said Planned Parenthood's concerns about the law are "all about money."
"We're talking about fundamental requirements like having doors and hallways big enough to accommodate stretchers, scrub-up facilities for operating rooms, and walls and floors that are washable," Morana explained. "Apparently, basics like that are too much to ask from Planned Parenthood."
Indeed they are. By way of reminder, these are the conditions that the New Jersey Department of Health found at state-licensed abortion clinics on their infrequent visits:
Although Pilgrim Medical Center in Montclair was the only abortion clinic whose routine inspections were up to date, several state violations were found in 2005. These included providing unspecified medical services without a license and lacking an oxygen supply to patients in one operating room.
Patients' dried blood and blood residue were common discoveries in some of the state's licensed abortion clinics, including the Montclair clinic, where investigators revealed that the base of the clinic's operating tables were "soiled and caked with dried blood" and the floors below the tables were "soiled and stained with blood residue."
Inspectors found dried blood under the leg pads on procedure tables at Atlantic City's Alternatives in June and forceps encrusted in "brownish blood-like residues" at Metropolitan Medical Associates in February.
Presumably, Missouri Planned Parenthood wants to be sure that their clinics can continue to operate in these conditions.
Remember, folks, the reason we need abortion-on-demand is that we don't want women being forced to go to unsanitary and substandard facilities to have them.
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Leon, does it matter to you that one of the clinics only offers pharmaceutical abortion? That would seem to a strange facility to subject to "ambulatory surgical center" rules.
On the flip, I'm as deeply disturbed as you are about the allegations in the New Jersey report.
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Really, not exactly. If I tried to catalog all the times that a single (or even several) given business(es) got unjustifiably caught up in a regulatory net, I'd be here basically forever.
But I'll go back to what I said w/r/t New Jersey - if a restaurant attempted to serve a cheeseburger in those conditions, what do you think would happen to it?
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Abortion by pill has killed and/or injured many women too, especially when Planned Parenthood was misusing the drug. The pills need just as much if not more regulation.
Only apply to institutions attempting to *save* human lives.
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Janet Morana, also a co-founder of the group, agreed that women's safety should come first and said Planned Parenthood's concerns about the law are "all about money."
Actually Janet, a minor quibble. PP's concerns about the law are I'm sure tied to money- but only secondarily. The primary concern is seeing as many babies aborted as is possible. But as for the health of women? Not even tertiary.
Priorities: they're important.
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The cockroaches were campaigning for the Kansas governor last year when she vetoed safety regulations for Kansas abortion facilities. Recall one of them charged one KS legisltator who assualted him. I'm sure they are rooting for Planned Parenthood in Missouri.
A Canadian commentator on another site mentioned that one thing you do not have to wait for under Canadian healthcare is an abortion.
Matt Blunt put them in a no-win situation. It's like the "have you stopped beating your wife?" question. An absolute master stroke by Gov. Blunt.
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