Susan Duclos @ Wake Up America:
It is astounding to look at the trial of Kermit Gosnell, who is accused of murdering babies born after botched, illegal third trimester partial birth abortions, then seeing pro-abortion liberals arguing against regulations, that had they been enforced, would have stopped Gosnell. Liberals are making this argument just one day after the media finally started covering the Gosnell’s “House of Horrors trial.”
Starting with the Grand Jury report on Gosnell and the Women’s Medical Society, page #140, Section VI “How Did Th is Go On So Long?”
Report states:
We discovered that Pennsylvania’s Department of Health has deliberately chosen not to enforce laws that should afford patients at abortion clinics the same safeguards and assurances of quality health care as patients of other medical service providers.
The State Legislature has charged the Department of Health (DOH) with responsibility for writing and enforcing regulations to protect health and safety in abortion clinics as well as in hospitals and other health care facilities. Yet a significant difference exists between how DOH monitors abortion clinics and how it monitors facilities where other medical procedures are performed.
Indeed, the department has shown an utter disregard both for the safety of women who seek treatment at abortion clinics and for the health of fetuses after they have become viable. State health officials have also shown a disregard for the laws the department is supposed to enforce. Most appalling of all, the Department of Health’s neglect of abortion patients’ safety and of Pennsylvania laws is clearly not inadvertent: It is by design .
There is much more, but that is the gist… the Pennsylvania Department of State, Pennsylvania Department of Health, and Pennsylvania Department of Public Health are talked about and how their failures allowed the murder of these born alive babies to continue for so many years at Gosnell’s clinic.
(See embedded video reports here and here about Gosnell and his “House of Horrors”)
Keep those failures in mind when reading the quotes from liberals today over the Virginia Board of Health passing legislation, with a vote of 11-2, which would require clinics that provide abortions to meet the same standards as outpatient hospital facilities, accusing of a “conservative war on abortion clinics.”
Liberal website ThinkProgress:
From above:
The ”reason” stated by the Dems in Penn was that such inspections would hinder women feeling free to use such facilities.
This is the exact same ”reason” used for letting people vote without photo ID.
Odd that they don’t use that same ”reasoning” to allow food establishments to never be inspected.
Or autos.
Or gas stations.
Or …. whatever.
We all know the answer.
Ruining the conscience of illegal voters or pregnant women is one thing, being libertarian is quite another.