The Supreme Court has overturned a Texas law that required physicians performing abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the site of the abortion and also that abortion clinics meet the same standards as outpatient surgical clinics. The court ruled that these laws placed an undue hardship on those seeking an abortion. Will they next decide that it is an undue hardship that a licensed physician be required to perform the abortion?
The Texas statute probably went too far, but after seeing the horror show that was Dr. Gosnell I am surprised that there isn't more demand for higher standards and regular inspections.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Fred,
The demand, at least in Texas, was there. That was one of the foremost reasons for passage of the Texas law which was struck down by SCOTUS. Gosnell is the poster child. Ironically he is a black who aborted black babies created by blacks. He was supported in his endeavors by upper class white women, but we dare not call them racist. Perhaps his sentence will be overturned, though he did plead guilty.
Please read this article from the NY Times 5/13/2013 "Philadelphia Abortion Doctor Guilty of Murder in Late-Term Procedures".
The Times supports the abortion position in no uncertain terms but even they has to be repulsed by what occurred in a free standing abortion clinic. The Texas law sought to safe guard women from this type of clinic and individual.
