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\"new<\/a>Watching the chatter on lefty and pro-abortion blogs this week, you\u2019d think Christmas came early this year. The whack-a-kid crowd is positively giddy about a RH Reality Check overview<\/a> of documents from 38 state attorneys general and 32 state health departments, originally requested as part of a House Republican investigation into state clinic regulations and the relative safety of abortion for women. Their conclusion:<\/p>\n

An analysis of these documents shows that congressional Republicans will find no support for their arguments in favor of new restrictions on abortion care in the evidence presented by the states. In particular, to the extent that anti-choice advocates claim that women are being put at risk by abortion services, these documents\u2014from the very state entities charged with overseeing and regulating abortion\u2014show the contrary. They show that abortion in the United States is highly regulated and overwhelmingly safe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That sparked a flood of smug, jubilant declarations that a right-wing \u201cfishing expedition<\/a>\u201d backfired on us, this proves \u201cabortion remains a safe choice<\/a>,\u201d debunks a mere \u201cmedia’s narrative<\/a>,\u201d further restrictions on \u201cridiculously safe<\/a>\u201d abortion would \u201conly put more people in danger,\u201d \u201cactual data typically hasn’t made a difference<\/a>\u201d for pro-lifers, \u201can utter lack of evidence<\/a>\u201d is the \u201canti-choice movement\u2019s Achilles\u2019 Heel,\u201d \u201cforced birthers thrive on myth<\/a>,\u201d women \u201cneed to be protected from extremist legislation<\/a>,\u201d the evidence fails to \u201csubstantiate conservatives’ calls for greater oversight<\/a>,\u201d and Republicans are \u201cwasting tax payer money and time dealing with a problem that doesn’t exist<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Uh, guys? Not to spoil the mood or anything\u2014okay, that\u2019s not true; I live to spoil pro-aborts\u2019 twisted moods\u2014but it\u2019s a little early to declare victory.<\/p>\n

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First, as Live Action regulars know, RH Reality Check is a profoundly dishonest website<\/a> that routinely engages in misstatements of fact, omission of key information, indefensible logical gymnastics, and egregious smears, all to serve abortion on demand.\u00a0 If the fact that they publish Amanda Marcotte’s deranged fantasies<\/a> isn’t enough to demonstrate all you need to know about their nonexistent standards, just consider their \u201clegal experts\u201d who endorse censorship<\/a>, their senior reporters who misrepresent science<\/a> and defame people as sexists<\/a>, and their bloggers who misstate basic, easily-available facts<\/a> in hit pieces they never bother to correct. And obviously, as good little pro-choice foot soldiers, they commonly regurgitate their side\u2019s standard lies about embryology, abstinence, crisis pregnancy centers, Roe v. Wade\u2019s<\/em> legal merits, pre-Roe<\/em> maternal deaths, fetal pain, etc.<\/p>\n

So we\u2019re gonna need a little more than RHRC\u2019s worthless word before giving Big Abortion a clean bill of health, especially considering that Jill Stanek has already found<\/a> at least one instance of a born-alive abortion their report claims don\u2019t happen, and that, as congressional aides have told<\/a> the Washington Times<\/em>, \u201cconclusions made at this point are premature,\u201d as the investigating committees are still awaiting state responses.<\/p>\n

UPDATE (8\/28\/13):<\/strong> Stanek also has a much more extensive piece<\/a> refuting a related RH Reality Check attempt to whitewash the “myth” of born-alive abortions, in which she documents the reality in devastating detail. (End Update)<\/strong><\/p>\n

When all the documents are in and we have a comprehensive report to really scrutinize and compare with RHRC\u2019s (hopefully with the insight of crack researchers like Reproductive Research Audit<\/a>), then we\u2019ll talk. It will be interesting to see how it squares with the numerous confirmed cases<\/a> of Planned Parenthood misconduct in recent years.<\/p>\n

Second, A-OKs from state agencies don\u2019t automatically settle the issue. No pro-lifer denies that the average abortionist has basic common sense about avoiding punishment and lawsuits, getting paid, or ensuring repeat customers. The bigger issue is that when abortionists do skirt the rules, liberal government officials and abortion movement leaders can\u2019t be trusted to hold them accountable.<\/p>\n

The least-acknowledged detail<\/a> of the Kermit Gosnell case, after all, is that both the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the National Abortion Federation deliberately ignored Gosnell since the early 1990s. Indeed, when faced with those supposedly-nonexistent born-alive abortions, the current occupant of the White House decided nothing should be done about them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Third, these declarations of victory and moral superiority are ultimately empty because they have absolutely nothing to do with abortion clinics\u2019 primary offense: they\u2019re death camps.<\/p>\n

Every last one of them could be the pinnacle of maternal safety, spotlessness, transparency, and regulatory mindfulness, and it wouldn’t change the fact that their business is murdering living, innocent human babies for mothers who have decided their existence is undesirable. No amount of medical caution for their customers will make their work humane, compassionate, respectable, or tolerable. None of it lessens the justice or necessity of shutting down every last butchery. And none of it will bring them any closer to the moral high ground they so desperately crave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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