What really harms women
The Chicago Tribune ran this little piece on page 5 yesterday:
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI – A federal judge temporarily blocked a new Missouri abortion law Monday after Planned Parenthood said the law would harm women by dramatically reducing the clinics available to provide the procedure.
The law would put more abortion clinics under state supervision, requiring them to meet specific state standards.
I would like to have heard the argument of how it would harm women.Â
It would harm Planned Parenthood’s business. How? By operating under state supervision, required to meet specific state standards, abortion clinics would have to be accountable for things like reporting statutory rape of minors, incest, transferring minors across state lines, obtaining informed consent from women before ‘the procedure’, among other standards any other type of medical clinic has to meet.Â
Which raises a couple of questions. Why aren’t those standards already applied to abortion clinics? And, why does Planned Parenthood so vigorously fight such accountability?