The debate surrounding Gosnell's abortion/massacre trial has taken another interesting turn. Pro-choice advocates have found a way to try and turn the tragedy back on the pro-life camp. They say that too many regulations and restrictions are to blame for Gosnell's charnel, "House of Horrors."
The statement is so ludicrous that at first it seemed laughable to me, just some far left lobbyist grasping at straws. But look how it has caught, like wildfire it spreads, consuming the message posts and confusing the rhetoric of news station after news station.
But these assertions, like any defense of late term abortions, offend the senses and sensibility.
To maintain that the conditions found at Gosnells clinic and others is the fault of over-regulation is like saying that background checks for gun purchases are the cause of massacres.
If abortion clinics really are medical facilities, instead of the death-houses that have been uncovered again and again, why would they be afraid of regular check-ups? If they truly are safe, and not just legal, then there should be nothing to hide. These reviews of operations are not an undue burden, they are the same processes used to evaluate the safet of any medical facility.
But they will say that these restrictions, (like requiring abortion clinics to maintain the same standards of sanitation and safety as other outpatient surgical facilities) lever an undue burden upon these caring doctors, who don't have enough money to support their businesses, which are likened in the rhetoric to charitable organizations, as if Gosnell and others hadn't gotten rich on the cash they charge their clients. (Gosnell had over $200,000 in cash at his house, stashed up from illegal operations. Over the years, he took millions from the impoverished women he claimed to serve.)
Look, not to state the obvious or anything, but if you can't afford to run a legitimate medical facility, then you have no business running that facility in the first place. Either reform your business model or leave. A long-standing clinic in Virginia has apparently taken my advice. http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/346283/va-abortion-clinic-closes.
Do not pretend to me that you care about women's rights so badly that you're willing to put them in danger to provide services they pay you for in cash. How stupid do they think the american people are? What concerns me about the farce is how far it has spread, and how many people are necessarily reading this ludicrous argument. MSM had even chalked it up to a "debate" there is no debate on this point. Regulatory lapses allowed Gosnell's rampage to continue unabated for decades. It is now the time for regulation to have its say, and let these "clinics" own up to what they've been doing in the shadows for so long.
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