Reproductive Health Care
"A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans overturned a lower court ruling yesterday and allowed the portion of the law requiring abortion offices to meet the same standards as other ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) to take effect. Enforcing the ASC requirements forced abortion offices in Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Austin, McAllen, El Paso, Houston, and Dallas to shut their doors today."
Life Site News c/o Truth Revolt
This morning on the radio news, I heard the complaint that this will lead to "millions of women being forced to drive thousands of miles for their 'reproductive health care,'"
Millions of women! Thousands of miles! For "reproductive health care"? Condoms? The Pill? String to tie her knees together? Those all would seem commonly enough available, even in Backwash, Texas. Perhaps they mean ob/gyn checkups? Pregnancy nutrition advice? Clean, well-equipped birthing rooms? Post-natal health care? Hmm?
One might imagine that Texas had banned "reproductive health care"! (Save us, Wendy Davis, you're our only hope!) Yet, ironically, all they did was insist that "reproductive health care" be (brace yourself) healthy, and meet certain reasonable, non-extraordinary health-care facility standards. Yet, with a stroke, Texas is down from 40 "reproductive health care" clinics to 8, "more than an 80% reduction in clinics statewide in nearly fourteen months, with a 100% reduction in clinics west and south of San Antonio." (I see that's down to most of the Texas-Mexico border. Hmm.)
Extremely rare, extremely early, only in most dire necessity, the tragic necessity of an abortion. A family's heart-wrenching decision with their doctor, a mother's grievous choice. Somehow, that scenario is hard to adjust with millions of women! thousands of miles!
Much less filthy genocidal butcher shops.