November 11, 2013 - Emily has a new article.
Okay, that taken care of I should probably comment on a lot of other things specifically related to a woman's right to abortion. Cincinnati is poised to become the largest metropolitan area in the country without an abortion provider. There's still a ways to go regarding court appeals before this actually happens, but essentially new laws have been attached to an unrelated budget bill restricting taxpayer-funded hospitals from transferring patients between themselves and abortion providers while having such transfers available is mandatory for an abortion clinic to perform procedures. It's a pretty perfect example of the many restrictive laws anti-abotion activists attempt to put in place to close down clinics, essentially creating situations where restrictions exist on abortion clinics, and then creating restrictions elsewhere that when combined with the restrictions already in place at abortion clinics would force the abortion clinic to close down. One common tactic of doing this are requiring abortion clinics to have certain ammenities such as a particularly wide hallway and then requiring special zoning privileges for any hallway that wide making it impossible for a clinic to remain open without rennovating while any rennovation would never be approved as it would conflict with zoning bylaws. Another tactic is to require an abortion provider to have admitting privileges with a hospital and then take on a variety of tactics to ensure no hospital ever does so, some reacting to concern over laws that they are a publicly funded hospital and public funds are not allowed to be used for abortion which some interpret to meaning they can't associate with an abortion clinic, some hospitals being religiously affiliated with a religion that doesn't condone abortion, and some supported by benefactors whom the hospitals worry will be lost if they affiliated with abortion providers. The situation is very complex to go behind the back of legal defense of abortion to shut clinics down, and some of these tactics are now even being sanctioned in Texas.
The Texas law may get the Supreme Court of the United States to make a major ruling on abortion as a result, but it doesn't do much for women affected in the interim. And more politicians seem to be campaigning against abortion rights with announcing his intention to introduce major changes to laws concerning abortion on a national scale.
Though on a more positive note, Oklahoma dismissed legislation designed to prevent medical abortions, and historically most of these challenges fail. Though unfortunately that failure rate doesn't stop antiabortionists from constantly trying to find ways around laws instead of examining the circumstances that lead women to seek abortions and trying to improve such situations that a woman would not choose to abort a pregnancy, or better yet, never get an unwanted or unintended pregnancy to begin with.
-D
Okay, that taken care of I should probably comment on a lot of other things specifically related to a woman's right to abortion. Cincinnati is poised to become the largest metropolitan area in the country without an abortion provider. There's still a ways to go regarding court appeals before this actually happens, but essentially new laws have been attached to an unrelated budget bill restricting taxpayer-funded hospitals from transferring patients between themselves and abortion providers while having such transfers available is mandatory for an abortion clinic to perform procedures. It's a pretty perfect example of the many restrictive laws anti-abotion activists attempt to put in place to close down clinics, essentially creating situations where restrictions exist on abortion clinics, and then creating restrictions elsewhere that when combined with the restrictions already in place at abortion clinics would force the abortion clinic to close down. One common tactic of doing this are requiring abortion clinics to have certain ammenities such as a particularly wide hallway and then requiring special zoning privileges for any hallway that wide making it impossible for a clinic to remain open without rennovating while any rennovation would never be approved as it would conflict with zoning bylaws. Another tactic is to require an abortion provider to have admitting privileges with a hospital and then take on a variety of tactics to ensure no hospital ever does so, some reacting to concern over laws that they are a publicly funded hospital and public funds are not allowed to be used for abortion which some interpret to meaning they can't associate with an abortion clinic, some hospitals being religiously affiliated with a religion that doesn't condone abortion, and some supported by benefactors whom the hospitals worry will be lost if they affiliated with abortion providers. The situation is very complex to go behind the back of legal defense of abortion to shut clinics down, and some of these tactics are now even being sanctioned in Texas.
The Texas law may get the Supreme Court of the United States to make a major ruling on abortion as a result, but it doesn't do much for women affected in the interim. And more politicians seem to be campaigning against abortion rights with announcing his intention to introduce major changes to laws concerning abortion on a national scale.
Though on a more positive note, Oklahoma dismissed legislation designed to prevent medical abortions, and historically most of these challenges fail. Though unfortunately that failure rate doesn't stop antiabortionists from constantly trying to find ways around laws instead of examining the circumstances that lead women to seek abortions and trying to improve such situations that a woman would not choose to abort a pregnancy, or better yet, never get an unwanted or unintended pregnancy to begin with.
-D
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