Posted on 10/04/2014 10:36:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Some 13 abortion clinics in Texas will reportedly close after a federal appeals court ruled in favor of the state Thursday to fully enforce a new law that requires abortion facilities to meet the same health and safety standards as ambulatory surgical centers.
In a 38-page decision published Thursday, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans, granted in part, a motion filed by the state of Texas to stay a district court's injunction against the law, and finds that the law is constitutional and does not place an undue burden on abortionists and women seeking abortions.
The decision overrides District Judge Lee Yeakel's August ruling, which stated that requiring abortion clinic owners to meet the same standards as ambulatory surgical centers, such as widening doorways to enable paramedics to bring stretchers into the clinic to transport patients to the hospital, is too costly and, therefore, "imposes an undue burden on women seeking an abortion," and was "unconstitutional."
Abortion clinic owners had one year to upgrade their facilities to meet the basic requirements of the law, which includes having adequate plumbing, heating, lighting and ventilation, and equipment that can properly sterilize surgical instruments; ensuring that the doors to the facilities can accommodate stretchers for emergencies; and to maintain a sanitary facility to ensure the health and safety of patients.
In allowing the injunction against Texas' abortion law, Yeakel ruled that requiring abortion clinics to meet the same standards as ambulatory surgical centers, along with requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinics, would "create a brutally effective system of abortion regulation."
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Amen to the closing of some of the death mills.
Isn’t Davis somewhat over with? Does she really have a snow ball’s chance in hell of winning?
At any rate she must be fuming at the roadblocks this places in the path of people who want to murder their babies. Evil, to say nothing of misery, loves company. The evildoers think that having a majority mitigates their guilt, or at least that they won’t suffer damnation alone. Satan has operated on this theory ever since his fall from Heaven.
White Ladies speak with forked tongue. They say only 3% of their income come from abortions. They get at least a half billion a year from the federal government. They get big bucks from the Foundations. Yet now they can’t find the money to get their clinics up to the standards required of clinics that do minor surgery? Isn’t that what a typical abortion is?
Hope not. She’s running against a very smart, well-funded guy in a wheel chair with a Latina wife.
She (Wendy) is OVER, though the FAT LADY has not sung yet, There is still a small possibility that Abbot could compare rape to the weather or something similar like Clayton Williams did which put Ann Richards over the top. It ain’t over till Nov 4.
BTTT!
Oh, the weeping and gnashing of teeth over this is going to be epic and entertaining.
And Wendy Davis is still toast.
If they choose to stay open, they just need to conform to the new law. Simple enough...call Planned Parenthood, get the money, upgrade the facilities to the law's code and/or hire a credible doctor and then...keep killin' babies.
If it's a doctor(?) issue, that being using a doctor that does not have patient admitting privedges at a local hospital, get real doctor to sign on, get his or her admitting priveledges, and start killiin' babies.
The ball's in the baby-killin' clinics hands...just follow the law and they can kill all babies they want to.
I’m thinking it will help, damnit!
> In allowing the injunction against Texas’ abortion law, Yeakel ruled that requiring abortion clinics to meet the same standards as ambulatory surgical centers, along with requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinics, would “create a brutally effective system of abortion regulation.”
IOW, Democrats and others opposed to the law are against best practices in health care (yes, even though abortion is NOT health care).
"imposes an undue burden on women seeking an abortion," and was "unconstitutional."
I'm speechless at such bovine excretion.
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