"Texas lawmakers will soon weigh in on one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, and at the heart of the proposal is banning abortions after 20 weeks.
But the other aspects of the bill — from requiring operating rooms and hallways at clinics to be larger to making sure an abortion facility is within 30 miles of a hospital — could have the most dramatic impact, potentially forcing most abortion clinics in the state to shut their doors.
“Since it’s not possible to eliminate Roe v. Wade right now, the goal is to limit the number of abortions in Texas,” said Mark P. Jones, a political science professor at Rice University in Houston. “They are focusing on fetal pain, but the much more consequential part of the legislation is that abortion clinics” will close.
This week, lawmakers will continue work on the measure during the second special session called by Gov. Rick Perry. The first special session ended shortly after a more than 11-hour filibuster by Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth.
Hanging in the balance are three dozen licensed health centers in Texas where women may get abortions, as well as other medical services such as family planning and screenings for cancer and sexually transmitted diseases."
All those anti-abortion folks out there can be proud of the "Ooops" Governor's brave and holy campaign to make girls and women conform to his and other people's ideas of what they should do when they become pregnant by allowing big government into the most private and personal part of their lives. Afterall he's only trying to protect innocent human life.
(Question: Does anyone wonder how many of the 500 people put to death in Texas were innocent? I'm guessing more than a few. But that's another issue that Governor Protector of Innocent Human Life will ignore.)
It's curious, though, to learn that should most of the clinics close down where girls and women can obtain a safe and legal abortion, girls and women will still be able to be treated at only five clinics that conform to SB/5 and SB/1:
"While it is truly hard to keep up with the sheer amount of graft, giveaways, turning of blind eyes, and special favors that has emanated from Rick Perry’s 13 years in the Governor’s mansion, when following the tale of SB5/SB1 it is hard to miss the crucial results of one of the provisions:
#SB5 requires every abortion provider to be licensed as an ambulatory surgery center. This requirement will costs providers about $1 million and will have to comply with 117 pages of regulation. It is expected that all but five clinics would not be able to afford to stay open because they simply cannot afford to comply with these regulations.
Wait, anambulatory surgery center, that’s just the religious right chipping away at abortion around the edges, right? No one could possibly stand to gain from this provision, could they?
Thank youHouston Chronicle for following the money:
If the bill passes, only five Texas abortion clinics would remain open—those that are already equipped as ambulatory surgical centers, advocates say. But a question remains: would the 420 other ambulatory surgical centers that exist in Texas begin performing the operation?
Abortion rights advocates predict that the demand for the procedure won’t disappear with passage of the law. One company that will be faced with that decision is United Surgical Partners International, based in Addison, TX. Their vice-president of government affairs is Milla Perry Jones, Gov. Rick Perry’s sister. She is also on the board of the Texas Ambulatory Surgical Center Society.
So if this bill passes, it provides Rick Perry’s sister’s company an opportunity to move into a new field, one where poor girls and women can be charged an exorbitant rate for a desperate procedure.
Expect abortions in Texas to continue, just at 2-3 times the previous going rates." --h/t dailykos
Keeping the business side of abortion and the $$$ to be gained from it all in the family while making people's lives more difficult than ever: a conservative value.
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Republicans in the panties of your wife/girlfriend/daughter/sister, Republicans in their vaginas, Republicans under their beds, Republicans in their private business, Republicans everywhere!
Just when you thought a Republican nose up your genitalia pertained only to women, now Republicans want stick their noses into every man’s asshole (Will Texas try to pass Erectile Dysfunction Laws next?):
“Should the transanal ultrasound show that the prostate gland is enlarged, then the legislature should clearly mandate that a prostate biopsy be performed immediately. Men, by legislative decree, may not refuse this procedure. It is for this reason that prescribing ED drugs and transanal ultrasound procedure be performed only in approved surgical clinics. This should decrease male access to health care to approximately that of Texas women’s access.”
Octopus will not mince words: Republicans better keep their pricks out of my business or else there will be bricks instead of ink, as in: “What is the sound of two bricks clapping your balls?” Or how about 8 powerful tentacles squeezing your testicles!
Attention all men: If the idea of the government buggering your asshole makes you squirm, then think about the offence to women when government sticks an ultrasound up their vaginas. Get the point now !!!
I no longer bother to read EITHER side of the woman's reproductive rights, pro abortion, anti abortion, its my right, no its not your right rants.
Sadly we are so deeply divided along religous -vs- scientic w/o ethics extremes fault lines a reasoned ethical resolution has been rendered impossible. A rational solution that protect the woman and the developing human life is possible. Unfortunately, and I never use the word, as a society we are to STUPID to figure it out.
Note: I am an atheist.
Look for the gutting of the Voting Rights Act to permit more gerrymandering to keep this parcel of rogues in office.
Octo,
I assume you are from Texas otherwise what they do is meaningless to you.
Duck, Obama cannot run again so the chief rogue has to leave.
It is a shame that a state wants to protect the life of a women by demanding they be in a suitable surgical facility to undergo a very risky abortion.
RN, you're a Massachusetts resident. Have you ever looked at the laws pertaining to abortion in Mass.? I have. And they are very strict about when a girl or woman can obtain an abortion and when she cannot unless there are dire circumstances. If you take the time to read how abortions are dealt with in this state, you will see that most of what you believe is a rational approach is already in place in this state.
What is not rational, IMO, is what governors in conservative states are trying to do to girls and women. Their actions are political and have nothing to do with the health of girls and women.
Here's the link.
(O)CT(O), I don't remember who it was, but someone once said that if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
Ducky,
Texas will not be a "red state" forever, it will change sooner rather than later.
skud,
(O)CT(O)PUS probably knows more about what's going on in Texas than the average Texan. You remark reflects the average thinking of the average conservative: "If it's not about me, who cares? I got mine, screw everyone else!"
BTW, your ignorance on the medical procedure, abortion, is showing. Again:
Abortion Safer for Women Than Childbirth, Study Claims
Risk of death, though small, is 14 times higher in full-term pregnancy
From US News and World Report:
"Since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973, opponents have questioned the safety of medical procedures used to terminate pregnancy. Now, a new study contends that having a legal abortion is safer than carrying a baby to term.
The risk of death associated with a full-term pregnancy and delivery is 8.8 deaths per 100,000, while the risk of death linked to legal abortion is 0.6 deaths per 100,000 women, according to the study. That means a woman carrying a baby to term is 14 times more likely to die than a woman who chooses to have a legal abortion, the study finds."
Why Abortion Is Less Risky than Childbirth
And please don't call this presentation of data an "attack" as you usually do. We're just trying to give you facts to counter your fictions.
RN USA is closed for discussion of this issue. My position is well known, it is consistent, it is rational, and frankly I DGAF anymore.
Conservatives stand for amoral piggery.
Shaw,
This is about abortion after 20 weeks and no it is not safer than full term birth.
This law does not prevent abortion but safeguards the carrier by having a complete facility to treat the women is anything goes wrong.
As far as octo understanding Texas, not even close. Can't expect those in the elite class to understand what it is like to live in the south.
Well, well, well ... Perry announces he won't be seeking re-election (shout out to Wendy Davis).
Already the speculation about a presidential run has started. The Baggers learned nothing from 2012.
Ducky, it'll be Rick Perry 2.0, with even better coiffed hair.
skud: "This law does not prevent abortion but safeguards the carrier by having a complete facility to treat the women is anything goes wrong."
Do you have mortality stats of women to back that claim up? I'd like to know the number of deaths suffered at facilities that don't have what SB5 and SB1 want enacted.
Do you have those figures?
Oh, and (O)CT(O) lives in the south.
Also, skud, do you have the stats on the number of babies and children who go hungry every day and who the conservatives would like to keep hungry by denying their parent(s) food stamps or unemployment benefits, because that just make the parent lazy?
Also, do you have the stats on how many babies and children died because their parents couldn't afford the high cost of health care for a catastrophic illness or stats on those children who were thrown off coverage because it cut into the insurance companies' profits?
Were you as passionate about protecting those very much alive and suffering babies and children as you are about fetuses?
If you were against Obamacare then you were against those protections for living babies and children.
Shaw,
I was and am against obamacare because it is a huge boondoggle that punishes 87% of Americans who have insurance so they can pay for the 13% who don't.
Like most government programs, food stamps, welfare, medicaid, cell phones, the costs are outrages and the benefits are few. Obamadoom will result in large rate increases, leave more working people uninsured and benefit few.
If they wanted to have every American have health insurance, they should have turned it over to private enterprise and the benefits would be more while the costs much less. What program does the government that is cost effective and efficient?
This is a battle of good versus evil, in their minds. Apparently some pro-choice advocates chanted "hail Satan" in response to anti-choicers singing "Amazing Grace". Matt Barber of World Net Daily says, "if you answer to pro-choice, you're only deceiving yourself... You're delighting in wickedness. That is objective, absolute evil – every time and without exception".
So this idiot says no to a health exception, clearly not caring if that means the death of the mother and/or the child. And given your post and how Rick's sister stands to benefit financially from this legislation... well, just which side is evil, I wonder.
BTW, I looked into these "protesters" chanting "hail Satan"... and it appears as though it actually happened. Has anyone else heard about this? Could Republican operatives be responsible? Perhaps these people are just that stupid, as their actions have provided fodder for the Right-wing press to make us look bad and gin up their base.
According to one commenter "The Democratic Party has become Satan's messengers and Gosnell is their God".
Dervish Sanders: "BTW, I looked into these "protesters" chanting "hail Satan"... and it appears as though it actually happened. Has anyone else heard about this? Could Republican operatives be responsible?"
What do you think? It smells of Lee Atwater and James O'Keefe. There is no way that a pro-choicer would chant something as stupid as "Hail Satan" at people singing "Amazing Grace."
These fanatics will stoop to any dirty trick to make the other side look evil.
I don't believe for a micro-second that those people chanting "Hail Satan," were pro-choicers.
skud: "Like most government programs, food stamps, welfare, medicaid, cell phones, the costs are outrages and the benefits are few."
Spoken like a true conservative. The benefits of feeding children and helping them and their familes with health care issues are few? But you're pro-life?
Jeebus.
BTW, the cell phone program is a conservative president's program.
And a good one.
Sounding very much like the republicans, if you know what I mean.
It is no wonder this nation is where it finds itself. Oh well, time for more important things...
Thanks for supporting the Reagan fiscal policies for 30 years which brought us to the bankrupt situation we find ourselves in
Anon, Stick your head where the sun don't shine.
This is gorgeous!
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