Pro-life vid of day: MI abortion bills await governor’s approval
by Hans Johnson
Following the controversy over the Right To Work bill, the Michigan House approved an omnibus abortion bill early last Friday morning which had passed in the Senate Wednesday. Nicknamed the “Pro-life Bus,” it seeks to hold the abortion industry to the same health and safety standards as other out-patient medical facilities. Much of this legislation has overwhelming support from likely voters.
It joins two other recently passed bills which limit abortion coverage in the state’s insurance exchange policies and require doctors to try to determine if a patient is being coerced. The bills await signing by Gov. Rick Snyder.
Sen. Rebekah Warren (D–Ann Arbor) attempted to counter with amendments requiring doctors to determine whether a vasectomy was medically necessary and whether the man was coerced. They failed.
Here is a report from WNEM TV5:
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Congratulations to Michigan! May common sense regulation of the abortion industry continue even if banning it is likely a long way away.
They can’t even deign to be required to have wide enough hallways and clean instruments… Abortion was never about “health care.”
“Sen. Rebekah Warren (D–Ann Arbor) attempted to counter with amendments requiring doctors to determine whether a vasectomy was medically necessary and whether the man was coerced. They failed.”
Vasectomy is never medically necessary, as far as I know. Of course, the overwhelming majority of abortions aren’t medically necessary either. So what’s her point?
As for coercion, I’ve never heard of any incident in which a man was forced to get a vasectomy, and unlike abortion, vasectomy is reversible. I wouldn’t have a problem with an anti-coercion requirement, I just don’t think it would be terribly useful. In contrast, the problem of coerced abortion is well-documented.
That piece by the CBS affiliate was surprisingly even-handed. But check out the almost frantic “Have you been paying attention??” reporting from the FOX affiliate:
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/20341733/mi-state-senate-passes-anti-abortion-bill
And here’s the hand-wringing from the PC crowd (WARNING! Ill use of vocabulary!):
http://twitchy.com/2012/12/12/michigan-state-senate-passes-omnibus-bill-regulating-abortion/
I am shocked! An employee of Planned Parenthood lying about a piece of legislation. And she lives in Michigan, yet. This legislation does nothing to interfere with a woman’s access to abortion; it interferes with her access to incompetent or negligent abortion providers operating unsafe, unsanitary facilities. Where there is a demand for a service, providers show up to provide it. Other abortionists will competently provide abortions in their safe, clean facilities.
As for the plight of rural women, the law does not interfere with them driving downstate for their abortions as they do today. It preemptively prohibits telemed abortions where the doctor never actually examines the women before dispensing abortion pills, which would otherwise increasing the risk of an undetected ectopic pregnancy.
RIght on Hans! In the first link, news reporter Maurielle Lue writes:
“Once signed by the governor, the new law will restrict abortions from insurance coverage. Which means women will have to anticipate being raped or molested years in advance and purchase a separate healthcare rider on their insurance policy.”
Yeah Maurielle, that’s just what women will have to do. On second thought, maybe they could just start respecting life. Please stop embarrassing my gender.
I have to comment on the quote provided by Praxedes above “raped or molested”…isn’t that rather like saying ‘in case of death or injury you’ll need a coffin’? If you could conceivably get pregnant from it, it’s ‘rape’, not ‘molestation’.
In other points: abotion ‘care’ isn’t comparable to a vasectomy, regardless of how much pro-aborts twist words. A vasectomy is likable to a hystorectomy, and ‘rights’ concerning hystorectomies are identical to those concerning vasectomies. A man’s ‘rights’ to kill his offspring, however, are wildly different than a woman’s