Mississippi’s last remaining abortion clinic’s last hope: the courts
We all rely too heavily on the court system, but at this stage of the game it’s our only hope.
~ Diane Derzis, owner of Jackson Women’s Health Organization, as quoted by The Guardian, January 24.
JWHO is Mississippi’s last remaining abortion clinic and has been notified by the state Department of Health that it will have to close in six weeks for breaching a new MS law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at local hospitals. The clinic has also been cited for having too few parking spaces, with less than 20.
[Photo via The New York Daily News]
Jan.26, 2013 2:02 pm |
Industry watch, The Courts |
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.
I think this says volumes about the prochoice movement in general right now. This is what happens when you base an entire movement around a court decision that is shaky to say the least.
Protect life, choose life, prolife.
Mother Jones magazine just had an article about this clinic…whining how there were 14 clinics in Mississippi in 1981 and now only one left because of “repressive” legislation such as requiring the abortionist to have admitting privileges at the hospital. Seriously??? That is common sense to me but pro-aborts think that is “repressive”. Whats next for these people? Whining about having to buy expensive suction machines when steak knives are so much cheaper?
So much for “safe” and legal. Obviously legal is their only aim.
Best not to get our hopes up. We’ve been on the verge of closing this one before, only to see the courts bail them out. Really says a lot about their movement that they continually must resort to having the unelected judicial branch overrule the elected legislative branch.
Their days are numbered.
The signs look familiar…ah yes, I remember those from Diane’s now closed mill in Birmingham. Explains the pepper spray; the more threatened she feels, the more violent her goons and other staff become; they are extensions of her bloodthirst.
If this butcher’s shop would reduce the number of people passing thru it’s doors and then lay off the now unneccessary employees, then they could probably get around the ‘too few parking places’ obstacle.
I confess I don’t know what the process is for obtaining admitting priveliges at a hospital, but it seems to me the physician presents his credentials and his proof of mal practice insurance and it is a ‘wham bam, thank you mam’ sign on the dotted line ‘saucered and blowed’ done deal…..Unless the physician is a seedy character with some ‘baggage’ and not a a few skeletons malingering in the closet.
Hi Ken,
Don’t you remember that blog post some months ago of a Virginia abortion clinic advertising for an abortionist? No license, no credentials, no experience necessary, will train on the spot.
No hospital is going to credential anyone like that. Your veterinary clinic wouldn’t.
I would be careful about this approach to things. I could see pro-aborts making the case that we are paralleling the Civil Rights issues of the 1960s, where “liberal courts” had to “bail out” black voting rights. Obviously that isn’t the case here, but I think we need to be aware of strategic messaging. We don’t want our message to get lumped in with anti-black messages.
Above is the subhead of the Guardian article. Very misleading. The whole article is slanted pro clinic as though the poor clinic has an A+++ rating or something. Apparently they (The Guardian) picked up the article as their viewership and slant is very ‘progressive’.
The comments are mostly over the top discussing how MS is so backward, etc.
Really a biased article. Couldn’t one be found in the United States?
oMG,–there are BALLOONS outside.
Um.. today, is not going to be any one’s birthday.
btw, impartial observer, excellent point. I think I made that feux pas with a friend earlier last week.
Civil rights was / is considered a liberal movement by many.
I tried using radical liberal left, but I don’t know how true that rings.
“Civil rights was / is considered a liberal movement by many.”
Yeah, but that’s the funny thing…it wasn’t. MLK was a Republican. :/