LA likely to pass TX-like abortion law

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How do you feel about these laws? I know you're pro-life...

I volunteer with an employee at a Dallas/Ft. Worth area surgical center and maybe they are biased but from what I have been told these restrictions are just as difficult as the surgical center regulations and the 20-week ban. The last time we discussed it, the admitting privileges one had put their center to relying solely on one full-time Doctor, who also has another full-time practice at a nearby hospital.

The waiting period is of course more devastating in Texas because of our size, and the 6 remaining clinics staying open this fall are all along the I-35 corridor, putting an appalling burden on women in rural areas, especially the west and panhandle.

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smh

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I don't understand why we need new laws to react to Kermit Gosnell. What he was doing -- committing mass murder -- is pretty much the top thing you can do wrong as a human. If you're OK with killing babies through botched abortions, you're going to probably be OK with fudging paperwork and operating without admitting privileges. I mean, dude was running a prescription drug mill too. He'd do anything for cash.

Gosnell is just a false pretense for these laws. The lawmakers writing and passing them flagrantly ignore the fact that their policies created the vacuum that allowed Gosnell's practice to exist and thrive in the first place.

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I don't think the social right understands history's relationship to the present very well. Point being: Abortion procedures existed in ancient Rome, and maybe always, I don't know for sure. Abortions will always be around. If the social right in the South wants a return to those times (some creep in a shack would probably happily perform an abortion), then they can keep this up, but my hope is that they will lose these fights in court.

I don't think the left understands abortion. Choice for women is not really the crux of the issue. Abortion is left-wing eugenics--the planned extermination of undesirable populations. I'm pro-choice, but only to avoid some ridiculous power grab by the government to regulate human life, even before they give it a serial number and an IRS account.

The social-right is strange because they understand the true nature of abortion, yet they restrict access to birth control.

I don't think you understand reality.