{"id":91196,"date":"2016-03-30T13:04:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T17:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=91196"},"modified":"2016-03-30T13:04:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T17:04:48","slug":"do-abortion-advocates-care-more-about-abortion-than-about-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/do-abortion-advocates-care-more-about-abortion-than-about-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Do abortion advocates care more about abortion than about women?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Remember the Clinton-era calls for abortion to be “safe, legal, and rare”? It seems abortion advocates\u00a0don’t care if it’s rare anymore, and they seem to have a hard time understanding the concept of safe.<\/p>\n

On March 2, the U.S. Supreme Court heard<\/a> Whole Woman\u2019s Health v. Hellerstedt.\u00a0<\/em>The case has to do with HB 2, a Texas state law which requires that abortion facilities meet the same health standards as ambulatory surgical centers and requires abortionists to have admitting privileges to a nearby hospital. At issue is\u00a0whether HB 2 places\u00a0an “undue burden” on\u00a0women seeking an abortion. But shouldn’t the more important question be, “If abortion is ‘medical care,’ why should\u00a0abortion facilities be held to lower\u00a0standards than\u00a0the rest of the medical community?”<\/p>\n

Abortion advocates mourned abortion facilities closing as a result of HB 2. What they didn’t know (or didn’t care about) is that the plaintiff fighting the Texas law,\u00a0Whole Woman’s Health<\/a>,\u00a0is a chain<\/a> with a\u00a0long history<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0abuses<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Opposition to pro-life regulations\u00a0shows a gross ignorance of the purpose of HB 2 and other pro-life laws under the confines of\u00a0Roe v. Wade<\/em>, Doe v. Bolton<\/em>, and\u00a0Planned Parenthood v. Casey<\/em>. More importantly though, such opposition from those in power shows they are\u00a0willing\u00a0to protect the abortion industry\u00a0over\u00a0mothers and their preborn children. Those members of the U.S. Supreme Court who chose to take the Whole Woman’s Health case rather than allow the law to be upheld, as the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, are at risk of failing to protect women. They instead may be\u00a0protecting the abortion industry, particularly facilities like Whole Woman’s Health, which put women in serious danger. And they will be doing the same if they don’t let the\u00a0decision of\u00a0the lower court to stand.<\/p>\n

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It’s not just U.S. Supreme Court justices who potentially put women in harm’s way. Self-described women’s health advocates who support abortion actually risk women’s health by\u00a0opposing laws requiring things like wider hallways in abortion facilities – hallways which would have allowed paramedics to fit a gurney through to help\u00a0Karnamaya Mongar<\/a>, who died at Kermit Gosnell’s dirty Philadelphia facility. While Gosnell was found guilty of Mongar’s death,\u00a0the government officials in Pennsylvania also bear some\u00a0blame\u00a0for allowing Gosnell to continue his illegal practices for so long.<\/p>\n

Another case of officials willing to risk women’s health for the sake of abortion access is this: Despite an abortion facility in Kentucky<\/a> being described as “filthy” by state health inspectors (people who would know the meaning of the word and proper standards), a judge ordered it to be reopened so\u00a0abortions could\u00a0continue.<\/p>\n

The state of Kentucky fined the facility, EMW Women’s Clinic, for performing abortions without a license. But the facility’s attorney Scott White called it<\/a> “insulting” to fine them, remarking that abortion is “a legal procedure.” While abortion is indeed\u00a0legal, that doesn’t mean the state has no\u00a0right to regulate the procedure. Just because a court rules in your favor does not mean that you have free reign to stretch the law and put patients at risk.<\/p>\n

But it’s not just judges who are risking women’s lives. Virginia Governor, Democrat Terry McAuliffe, not only vetoed a bill which would have defunded Planned Parenthood in his state, he made quite the show of it by\u00a0vetoing the bill<\/a> at a Planned Parenthood location<\/em>. McAuliffe, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has a history of\u00a0supporting the abortion industry – beyond even common sense.<\/p>\n

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During his time as governor, it became a pet project of McAuliffe and his Department of Health to do away with safety regulations<\/a> for abortions, thus making it easier for abortion facilities to stay open.<\/p>\n

Restaurants and nail salons are inspected more often than abortion facilities, and are closed for repeatedly violating health inspections. This is as it should be.<\/p>\n

Why, then, should a place\u00a0touting itself as a healthcare facility and performing an invasive procedure on women be allowed to stay open after\u00a0repeated violations and breaking\u00a0state laws?<\/p>\n

Is this the best\u00a0that abortion advocates\u00a0can do for women? Is the\u00a0pro-abortion answer to the problem of unsafe abortion facilities\u00a0to simply turn a blind eye to egregious health violations because an\u00a0unsafe<\/em>\u00a0abortion facility is better than\u00a0no<\/em>\u00a0abortion facility?<\/p>\n

In what world is that sane logic? Apparently, it’s the ‘logic’ of\u00a0the world where abortion advocates care more about abortion than about women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember the Clinton-era calls for abortion to be “safe, legal, and rare”? It seems abortion advocates\u00a0don’t care if it’s rare anymore, and they seem to have a hard time understanding the concept of safe. On March 2, the U.S. Supreme Court heard Whole Woman\u2019s Health v. Hellerstedt.\u00a0The case has to do with HB 2, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":66523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[2546,457,8090,7519],"yoast_head":"\nDo abortion advocates care more about abortion than about women?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If abortion is 'medical care,' why should abortion facilities be held to lower standards than the rest of the medical community?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/do-abortion-advocates-care-more-about-abortion-than-about-women\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Do abortion advocates care more about abortion than about women?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If abortion is 'medical care,' why should abortion facilities be held to lower standards than the rest of the medical community?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/do-abortion-advocates-care-more-about-abortion-than-about-women\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rebecca.rose.downs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-03-30T17:04:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/abortion-facility-e1436828447716.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"669\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Rebecca Downs\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Rebecca Downs\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/do-abortion-advocates-care-more-about-abortion-than-about-women\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/do-abortion-advocates-care-more-about-abortion-than-about-women\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Rebecca Downs\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/c857d79ac1bc983e8380970b61fa1aee\"},\"headline\":\"Do abortion advocates care more about abortion than about women?\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-03-30T17:04:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-03-30T17:04:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/do-abortion-advocates-care-more-about-abortion-than-about-women\/\"},\"wordCount\":756,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"hb2\",\"Kermit Gosnell\",\"Planned Parenthood. 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