Virginia Passes Abortion Clinic Regulation Bill, and WaPo Dwells on Abortionist Complaints
When Virginia's Assembly passed a law requiring abortion clinics to be regulated like hospitals, The Washington Post responded Sunday with an article on the top of the front page of Metro, trumpeting how "Abortion providers wary of new law." Reporter Brigid Schulte's story had 21 paragraphs, almost entirely devoted to the complaints of abortionists. Pro-lifers were in paragraphs four and 11, just for a tiny rebuttal:
Supporters of the vote hailed it as "historic"....But [Rosemary] Codding, 68, sees it as more "shenanigans" in the long-running war over abortion rights. And depending upon how state regulators write the rules later this year, she fears that abortion opponents may succeed in practice what they have failed to achieve in court: an overturn of the landmark Roe v. Wade....
"Let's be clear," Codding said late Friday. Women came in throughout the day for abortions, Pap tests, fertility consultations and gynecologic cancer treatments. "This is not about health and safety. This is about targeting abortion providers and making it more difficult if not impossible to provide women affordable access to abortion with respect and dignity."
What the story does not have is a photograph of Codding or the other abortionists. (Here's Codding on a YouTube video with Rep. Jim Moran touting that "hero" Dr. George Tiller, the infamous late-term abortionist, as a "devout Christian.") The first three paragraphs of the story were all sympathy for the "shenanigans" Codding has had to endure:
Before Rosemary Codding allows visitors into the Falls Church Healthcare Center, a self-described "pro-choice women's center," she asks them to sign a confidentiality agreement. And show a photo ID. "Because," she says matter of factly, "there's all kinds of shenanigans when it comes to abortion."
As a veteran abortion rights activist and founder and director of this center, she has beaten back attempts to zone her out of existence and found plumbers and HVAC workers to replace the ones she says were harassed away by round-the-clock protests outside her door. Over the years, she has complied with every new requirement: the 24-hour wait before a woman has an abortion; parental notification for minors; notarized parental consent for minors; and she makes sure all would-be patients have state-mandated information about alternatives to abortion.
But when the General Assembly passed legislation late last week requiring all offices, clinics and centers like hers that perform first-trimester abortions to be regulated as hospitals - arguably the strictest requirement in the country - Codding turned so red that she went into one of the clinic's exam rooms and checked her own blood pressure.
Codding's ire was also the pull quote inside on C-5: "I live in a state where there's an earthquake around abortion. So I had to build a center that could withstand whatever came down the road."
Pro-lifers are merely an "earthquake." They aren't compassionate human beings trying to save lives. They're a disaster movie.
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Isn't this what liberals want
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 10:04am.
Isn't this what liberals want to do with smoking?
They won't outlaw it, but they just want to make it nearly impossible to exercise the right to that "choice."
The difference is that government profits from tobacco taxes; that's why they won't just outlaw the product. OTOH, these laws just try to make abortion clinincs safer.
People in this country seem to get more upset over "puppy mills" for their abusive treatment of animals than they are concerned over women being herded into squalid, unregulated abortion mills.
Something To Ask The Pro-Choice Folks
Submitted by Wildcatter1980 on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 11:52am.
Will they admit that abortion is the ending of a life?
When any of them invoke such statements as "A woman has a right to do as she chooses with her body"; "The choice to abort is solely between the woman and her doctor"; "Things would be different if both men and women could become pregnant"; or "You hate women", they are trying to hide or divert away from the unpleasant fact that an abortion ends a life.
I take particular umbrage to the "Things would be different if both men and women could become pregnant" statement. This is a "Life isn't fair. Government needs to fix this" type of position. If we demand that government "fix" all of life's inequities, would that mean government will buy each of us the car of our dreams, make us concert pianists or Hall of Fame baseball careers, or put us in 20-room mansions with sophisticated security systems? Of course, none of these are going to happen. Heck, we have already see that we can't afford much of current government once the economy goes in the tank. There is no way that we should expect an all-encompassing effort to fix life's inequities. With such an effort, we just cannot afford the drain on resources to pay for it.
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If you want to know what liberal secular progressives are really doing, just listen to what they are accusing others of.
Recommended reading: Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
It Dawned on Me
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 10:15am.
that the abortionists have finally come full circle on their "logic." When Roe was not yet a decided case, their argument was always foremost, "If abortion isn't legal then women will have to suffer coat hangers in back alleys."
Now, after 40 years, when any state wants to regulate the cleanliness and standards of the building and personnel, they have in effect adopted the opposite argument. "If women can't get abortions with dirty instruments in filthy rooms, then abortion will be outlawed."
And yet, after 40 years of being able to see pictures of diseased lungs to show what smoking can do to harm the hman body, we still are not allowed to see a picture of what an abortion really is, in the same venues.
They can't have it both ways
Submitted by Texndoc on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 10:21am.
Planned Parenthood often argues abortion is but a sliver of the services they provide. PAP testing, "cancer screening", birth control, "cancer treatment". Yet the regulation would stop first trimester abortions only from being performed in a Planned Parenthood clinic that does not meet the new standards, and the last clinic director moans they will have to close their doors. Why? Because if they can't collect the revenue from abortions they would rather shut down, instead of playing their "cancer" card.
I think it's great whenever
Submitted by Miss_Me_Yet on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 10:29am.
I think it's great whenever the liberal rags, mags or Obama TV blather on about abortionists and their causes.
Every time they do, We the People win and they lose in the hearts and minds of the American people.
So by all means let them whine and carry on, by doing so they are inadvertently signing their own death warrants for a change.
Liberals ... we can't live with them, they couldn't survive without us ...
→ Regulated like hospitals?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 10:46am.
So basically these abortion proponents admit what they do is not really a medical procedure?
"Shenanigans" = Pro Life
Submitted by kareling on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 10:53am.
"Shenanigans" = Pro Life sting operations designed to "manufacture" issues with the abortion industry.
Funny how abortion seems to be the only thing the Left doesn't want regulated.
And depending upon how state
Submitted by dscott on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 11:31am.
And depending upon how state regulators write the rules later this year, she fears that abortion opponents may succeed in practice what they have failed to achieve in court: an overturn of the landmark Roe v. Wade....
<p>Once again liberals show their disgust of Democracy and the concept of self governance. Notice the flipping of the legitimate order: Court imposes via a ruling what is the sole provence of the legislature - to create laws. Their lament is the re-establishment of the Rule of Law where it is the People's elected Representatives that create the Laws and the Courts enforce them or tell the legislature they have over stepped their bounds. Claiming the legistature is over stepped it's bounds after 200+ years of precedence is lunacy of political fickelness, that's the point of Stare Decisis.</p> <p>The whole point of having elected Representatives is to FORCE accountability of those who make the Laws. If there is no public support to make the Law then the abuse of the Law by a minority is greatly lessened. The Law is supposed to reflect public values, not the other way around. Roe v Wade was judicial legislating since up to that point the Stare Decisis of 200+ years was abortion was a State matter under the 10th Admendment and virtually all States outlawed it. The Supreme Court decision was defective as it was a polical putch of the elites to rule this country. Just because a minority claims they are right and are convinced of it doesn't make it so.</p> Claiming legislators weren't courageous enough to pass an abortion law in the first place against public opinion is a direct slap against self governance and the imposition of elite rule. Liberals hate self governance because they can't legitimately convince the public of their agenda. Liberals are either too lazy, too incompetent or simply wrong headed in their opinions to convince anyone without lying or imposing, hence the continual false assertions. IF YOUR CAUSE IS JUST THEN YOU DON'T NEED TO LIE TO CONVINCE ANYONE MUCH LESS IMPOSE YOUR VIEWS UPON OTHERS WHEN YOU CAN'T CONVINCE THEM OTHERWISE. The end result of imposing a minority view upon the public has been division and anger.If the God-given right to
Submitted by misterbee241 on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 12:17pm.
If the God-given right to self defense, i.e. gun ownership, can be regulated in the name of "sensible" gun laws, then a court-decreed "right" can be regulated, even done away with.
Well, now, if she's called shenanigans...
Submitted by Mike Bratton on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 3:58pm.
...then by all means let's concede the debate to Rosemary and her scintillating repartee.
How sad that a serial killer like Rosemary Codding doesn't appreciate having to keep clean while committing her murders. Tsk, tsk.
--Mike
Waiting in the dermatologist office
Submitted by Southern voter on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 11:41pm.
last week I saw a pamplet of Swiss skin products this office recommends to heal skin...as I read I was shocked to read that the main ingredient was fetal tissue...the company name is "Neocutis" ..as I googled the company and read many of the reviews it raised a major question in my mind ...how do these abortion clinics dispose of these aborted babies ? are the remains sold ? what are the names of other cosmetic products being sold using fetal tissue around the world ? what about the bodies of full term babies murdered during a late term abortion ? no one has ever done a story on the $$$$ behind abortion ...I am sure it would be shocking !!