I’m going to quote Matthew Clark of Bearing Drift here, because he set up the situation pretty straightforwardly:
Virginia, with the support of Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, has enacted some of the most stringent health requirements for abortion clinics in the country. The law allows the Virginia Board of Health to regulate abortion clinics much like hospitals, to ensure that they provide the same operation, staffing, equipping, staff qualifications and training, and conditions as hospitals in Virginia. These regulations would ensure that no “House of Horrors” operates in Virginia.
Yet, late last week, McAuliffe sent a fundraising email asking supporters to fund his campaign because his opponent, GOP gubernatorial all-but nominee Cuccinelli, “pushed through medically unnecessary regulations on women’s health centers with the aim of his number one goal: ending safe and legal abortion in Virginia.”
Why were these regulations proposed? Precisely to prevent the horrors of Gosnell’s clinic. The Washington Post reported at the time this bill was passed, “In recent weeks, abortion foes have cited the case of a Philadelphia area clinic [Gosnell’s] recently shut down after authorities discovered a series of botched and illegal abortions; inspectors discovered containers of fetal parts.”
Couple of things to note about this. First off, this should be your rebuttal of choice to anybody still trying to peddle the pro-abortion (more on that later) wheeze We cared about this at the time. Where were you? The answer, of course, is We were working to make sure that people like Kermit Gosnell weren’t going to be able to set up any more abattoirs for black and Hispanic babies. Where were you? Watching their response to that at least should provide some brief moments in amusement in what has been otherwise an unremittingly horrific policy discussion….To Read More….
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