pro-lifers have been complaining for decades that abortion clinics were held to medical standards. It’s probably mostly just a result of electoral changes and a growing awareness that the back-alley remained the location for abortions, after RvW as much as before. Pro-lifers have been saying this for years but the abortion lobbey always protected themselves with the medical regulation people. It’s taken this long to build enough grass roots support, and I suppose the Gosnell case helped catalyze things.
It’s not that no one thought of this before. It’s that our pleas to regulate the clinics like any other “medical facility” fell on deaf ears.
that abortion clinics were held to
should read:
that abortion clinics were NOT held to
I didn’t mean to imply this legislation came about because of Gosnell...I know it had been an approach thought of some time ago, and you’re right about the changing electoral demographics. Nevertheless, the coincidence between this coming up with the Gosnell case (as well as Lila Rose’s undercover stings) will make it very, very difficult for any person with any political aspirations to defend “common-sense regulation” of the abortion industry.