Abortion, Clinic Regulations and Supreme Court

 

Ginned-up hysteria as Supreme Court agrees to hear pro-life Texas law

By Dave Andrusko

The last post of the day is usually succinct. Alas that won’t be the case today, even though we will revisit the topic many times over the next seven months.

Last week we wrote about the upcoming decision by the Supreme Court whether it would hear a challenge to Texas’ 2013 pro-life law. We’d written dozens and dozens of stories about H.B. 2 and were not the least bit surprised when the justices announced last Friday that they had taken up the case.

The reaction has picked up speed by the day, growing from at least some quasi-measured accounts last week to more hysterical responses. And that’s just the “mainstream media.”
The one thing you knew–absolutely knew— is that reason, logic, commonsense would all take a backseat as the pro-abortion machinery grinds out study after study warning the reader that the apocalypse is pretty much already here or will be an hour and a half after the Supreme Court hands down its decision next June–that is, if it upholds the two provisions challenged by a coalition of Texas abortion providers.
I’ll offer a teaser here. Dr. Randall K. O’Bannon, NRLC’s esteemed director of education, will tackle one of the numbers conjured up out of thin air that rivals the old mythology about the number of women who supposedly died from “illegal abortions” for sheer brazenness.
Much of the opinion-making set is furiously lobbying Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, widely understood as the swing vote on many issues, including abortion. It is so blatant it would be almost comical were it not about the lives not only of unborn children but their mothers.
Truism #1 for the Abortion Industry and legislation: there is no law (indeed there cannot be any law) that can ever serve any useful purpose unless it greases the skids so that there are more abortions.
Fewer abortions (even the possibility of few abortions)=bad. More and more and more abortions=good!
You want to require these itinerant abortionists who parachute in to have admitting privileges at a local hospital for the inevitable botched abortions? Nonsense. Abortion is safer than…. Well, safer than anything.

Consider this: these guys, like Willie Parker, are big time into volume. Not only does he freely admit performing abortions at 24 weeks, 6 days, and beyond, Parker flies into places like Mississippi twice a month and performs as many as 45 abortions a day.
Forty-five abortions a day. Let’s say he “works” 9-10 hours a day, he’s killing 5 babies per hour.
One other thought on this.

Judge Edith Jones wrote the unanimous opinion for a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that upheld provisions of Texas’ H.B. 2, challenged by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and several Texas abortion clinics.

In her 34-page opinion, Jones noted something never mentioned in press accounts: “Planned Parenthood conceded that at least 210 women in Texas annually must be hospitalized after seeking an abortion.”

I cannot prove this, but does anyone believe that if even PPFA would concede 210 hospitalizations, the number, in truth, could/would be considerably higher?
Judge Jones also wrote, “Witnesses on both sides further testified that some of the women who are hospitalized after an abortion have complications that require an OB/GYN specialist’s treatment. ” She added, “Against Planned Parenthood’s claims that these women can be adequately treated without the admitting-privileges requirement, the state showed that many hospitals lack an Ob/Gyn on call for emergencies.”
The other challenged provision in the Texas law–H.B. 2– requires abortion clinics to meet the standards of ambulatory surgical standards. Too costly, too unnecessary, too bureaucratic, too…whatever, we’re told.

How about that such requirements reveal too much about the abortion industry and its bottom line? Not the health of women, not the safety of women but something entirely different: money.

Source: NRLC News