Posted on 02/19/2003 1:10:49 PM PST by Mr. Silverback
Abortionists are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a challenge to clinic oversight laws in South Carolina.
The Center for Reproductive Rights is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case that would end several regulations on abortion clinics in South Carolina. At stake is the health of women who seek to end a pregnancy.
South Carolina has some of the most stringent regulations in the nation for the abortion industry. They include requiring clinics to admit women to a hospital, if needed, and making clinic records available to inspectors on demand. Denise Burke, a spokesman for Americans United for Life, thinks the regulations are reasonable.
"Actually, it's mainly to ensure that doctors are engaging in proper medical practice and procedures in caring for the women in the abortion clinics," Burke said.
Last year, a lower court upheld the regulations, but now the Center for Reproductive Rights is asking the nation's highest court to dismiss them, allowing clinics to operate virtually without oversight. Burke said even with current regulations, the clinics are dangerous.
"We know from incidents in South Carolina and other states that these abortion clinics are not being run in a safe or medically acceptable manner," Burke said.
The center said it wants to protect the private information of its clients. But Oran Smith, executive director of the Columbia, S.C.-based Palmetto Family Council, said state oversight is essential to safeguard the health of women the abortionists claim to value so highly.
"Their arguments are internally inconsistent and they are blinded by their absolute approach to abortion," Smith said. "It is duplicitous."
Smith doubts the Supreme Court will accept the case.
"I would think it would be unlikely that it would be heard," Smith said. "But you never know what their thought process is and how they decide to hear a case."
If left to stand, these same rules could spread across the country.
The suit also seeks to strike down a requirement that forces abortion clinics to provide access to clergy. The Center for Reproductive Rights refused to talk with Family News in Focus about its Supreme Court challenge.
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If you wanted to operate a slaughter house for pigs, swine, hogs, you would need to meet certain health and cleanliness standards, so why not a place that reaches into the womb of a woman, rips her baby apart and then sells that baby for body parts? What possibe grounds could they have for going to the Supreme Court asking to be less regulated than a slaughter house for pigs, swine, hogs and such?
Roe v. Wade didn't involve a federal issue. Anything that threatens the Abortion Sacrament must be defeated, you know...
Nothing happened to it. They simply lied about it like they do everything else.
These abortion mills should be held to the same standards as hospitals and clinics all across the US.
But the diseased maniacs who run these mills do not want that because they wish to continue to get their blood money with absolute impunity.
A simple rule of thumb, Silverback:
How can you tell an abortion provider/supporter is lying?
Their lips move.
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