South by Southwest: Pro-life laws eradicating abortion clinics
There is a mesmerizing time-lapse video at the Abraham Lincoln Museum in Springfield, Illinois, that in four minutes shows the North’s four-year takeover of the South during the Civil War (screen shots above – view a video clip here).
I was reminded of that video when viewing this GIF from Planned Parenthood. Click on the image to launch…
The correlation between slavery and abortion makes it poignant that legal abortion is first being wiped out in the South, although the area also encompasses some of the Southwest, including Texas and Oklahoma….
While many different types of pro-life laws are being enacted, such as late-term abortion bans, waiting periods, ultrasound requirements, and parental involvement, those having the greatest impact are what the abortion industry calls “Targeted Regulation of Abortion Provider (TRAP) laws” – abortion clinic regulations and requirements that abortionists have hospital admitting privileges.
The sudden proliferation of “TRAP” laws most certainly can be tied to the discovery in 2010 of late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s House of Horrors and Gosnell’s subsequent conviction in 2013 of first degree murder in the deaths of three abortion surviving infants and involuntary manslaughter of a patient.
Whether the Gosnell case emboldened pro-life politicians, or frightened them into trying to avert the discovery of another Gosnell in their state, it doesn’t matter.
The result is both a physical and political win, physical in that these laws save the lives of children and mothers, and political in that they expose the abortion industry as medically substandard.
The Associated Press describes the toll on the abortion industry in the South/Southwest:
The [admitting privileges] requirements are already in effect in Texas and Tennessee….
If the law there is upheld, Mississippi’s lone abortion clinic would have to close….
After judges allowed Texas’ privileges law to take effect earlier this year, 19 of 33 abortion clinics closed….
In Alabama, operators of three of five abortion clinics testified last week during a trial challenging the law that they use out-of-town doctors who wouldn’t be able to admit patients to local hospitals. They said they’d have to close….
In Louisiana, opponents said the Louisiana law would close three of the state’s five abortion clinics….
Of course, states in many other areas of the country are enacting pro-life legislation, but there is a concentration in the South/Southwest that “could see an entire region of the nation with little or no access to safe abortion,” warns Planned Parenthood.
Legal sure, but “safe,” no. At least one woman a month dies from a legal abortion in the U.S.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
The most striking thing about these clinic closures is that no one cares (except for the abortion industry). Like the disappearing erotic massage parlors — no one misses them. They were a nuisance. They were never the “necessary healthcare service” that they claimed themselves to be.
But what really matters to us is the number of lives saved. Have the number of abortions dropped, just because the bottom-feeding profiteers have dropped out of the industry?
Or has abortion moved into the hospitals and gynecologist clinics?
How many women are still willing to travel hours to get their abortions? We recently learned that women travel all the way to Tennessee, just to avoid parental consent, informed consent and 24-hour waiting laws.
Awesome! I could sit here watching that GIF all day. It just brings such a large smile to my face.
Still, their use of euphemisms is becoming tiresome. “Women’s health” is not being attacked. Abortion is.
How many women are using coat hangers and dying for “lack of access??”
Carla, that’s a good question.
I can tell you this: The abortion lobby is waiting for a dead woman that they can pull a Rosie Jimenez with. I’d go further and say they’re baiting the hook trying to lure a woman into a horrible, needless death just so they can drag her corpse around for PR purposes.
We need to place the blame squarely where it belongs: EVERY SINGLE WOMAN who has EVER died from an abortion died at the hands of a PROCHOICER.
http://realchoice.blogspot.kr/2013/05/abortion-advocacy-post-roe-we-need.html
OMG I just read their entire lamentation and get THIS:
“Providers already have plans in place in case of an emergency to ensure patient safety.”
Yeah? Like Leroy Carhart’s “Here’s the phone number for the answering machine at my wife’s equestrian supply business. Call it if you start bleeding out of every orifice,” right? Yeah, that worked out REAL good for Jennifer McKenna-Morbelli!
BTW, Jill, thanks to you giving the heads’ up here, I blogged about this myself, with particular focus on how this hysteria is designed to prod some poor, panicked woman into doing something that gets her killed so that the abortion lobby can then use her dead body as a rallying point to get abortion standards lowered to the bus-station men’s room standards that Wendy Davis fought to protect.
http://realchoice.blogspot.kr/2014/06/gearing-up-for-when-inevitable-happens.html
Totally agree Christina.
Hi Christina,
I’m sure they’ll continue to do as they always have, dump the patient on the nearest emergency room. Up until now that is how they have ensured “patient safety”.
Hi Carla,
Since the death rate was steadily declining for years prior to Roe, it seems women were either becoming markedly adept at the use of coathangers, or their doctor’s office and hospital abortions were just becoming safer. Or maybe not that many women were having them. How could anyone do anything but speculate on the number of illegal abortions? They were, at best, anybody’s guess.