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Pennsylvania Democrats have introduced<\/a> legislation that would revoke the state\u2019s “target restrictions on abortion providers” \u2014 often referred to by abortion advocates as “TRAP” laws \u2014 a move that would further endanger women in the state by removing common-sense safety measures.<\/span><\/p>\n

The initiative is being spearheaded by State Representative Tarik Khan. In a recent op-ed<\/a>, Khan decried the state\u2019s protections for abortion clients passed in 2011, which, as he pointed out, require abortion facilities to meet code requirements similar to those imposed on ambulatory surgical centers. \u201c<\/span>These changes include obtaining contracts with hospitals, installing hospital-grade elevators, significantly expanding the size of procedure rooms, installing new flooring, and other costly upgrades,\u201d he explained.<\/span><\/p>\n

He went on to claim, \u201cThese changes are irrelevant to patient health, given that abortion providers are already well-regulated by the government.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese requirements can be, and really are, medically inappropriate in the context of an abortion procedure,\u201d claimed Signe Espinoza, the Executive Director of Planned Parenthood PA. \u201cThese requirements forced abortion providers to shut their doors.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ: YIKES: Half of Pennsylvania abortion facilities failed health inspections last year<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Though Khan and the abortion industry claim that laws protecting abortion seekers are a nuisance, the state recently released records showing that abortion complications have tripled<\/em> in the last five years in Pennsylvania, along with the news that half of the state’s abortion businesses failed health inspections<\/a> last year. Loosening restrictions would put these women further at risk.<\/p>\n

The state’s laws protecting abortion clients were adopted<\/a> in 2011 largely in response to abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s “House of Horrors” in Philadelphia. When FBI agents raided<\/a> Gosnell’s facility, they found \u201c47 aborted fetuses stored in clinic freezers, jars of tiny, severed feet, bloodstained furniture and dirty medical instruments.\u201d\u00a0 Agents also reported \u201cthe disgusting conditions, the dazed patients, the discarded fetuses.\u201d Gosnell was later convicted of murder in the deaths of three infants born alive during abortion procedures and involuntary manslaughter in the death of a woman who died during an abortion procedure.<\/p>\n

Michael Geer, President and CEO of the PA Family Institute, decried the new legislation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe grand jury that released a report after the Kermit Gosnell investigation basically said that the abortion clinics in Pennsylvania were regulated, less regulated than nail salons, and that women were put at risk,\u201d he said<\/a>. \u201cThey think they should be free to do whatever they want to do, put women\u2019s health at risk, put babies certainly at risk when they go into an abortion clinic.”<\/p>\n

Abortion businesses constantly argue that abortion is<\/em> health care \u2014 <\/em>but now are balking at meeting minimum safety standards that any surgical facility in the state needs to face. Abortion is a dangerous procedure especially to the human being whose life is ended. And though the media never reports their stories, countless women have been injured<\/a> \u2014 and even killed<\/a> \u2014 inside abortion facilities.<\/p>\n

The DOJ put a pro-life grandmother in jail this Christmas for protesting the killing of preborn children. Please take 30 seconds to TELL CONGRESS: STOP THE DOJ FROM TARGETING PRO-LIFE AMERICANS.<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pennsylvania Democrats have introduced legislation that would revoke the state\u2019s “target restrictions on abortion providers” \u2014 often referred to by abortion advocates as “TRAP” laws \u2014 a move that would further endanger women in the state by removing common-sense safety measures. The initiative is being spearheaded by State Representative Tarik Khan. 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