So an Abortion limiting bill passed in my state, Texas

[Mr Khan]

thranx said:

Mr Khan said:

The key, again, isn't about the time restriction as it is about the shuttering of clinics, which are otherwise the prime source of women-focused healthcare for a lot of women across Texas.

You are for Obama Care right? the massive legislation that forces people and companies to support the health care system? Why aren't you for forcing clinics that already cut people open, to also help with the care of others in surgical need? If you are for one, shouldn't be for the other? I am confused by your stance here? Seems like it should be something you would support, making companies change what they do to help others that need the help. http://www.ascassociation.org/ASCA/AboutUs/WhatisanASC

requiring doctors to up to snuff and be allowed to perform within a hospital with in 30 miles also seems reasonable. Wouldn't there to be an accident at some clinic and not be able to get to a hospital in time, or have a docotr doing surgery that isn't capable.

 

the limiting the abortion pill/drug would be the only conern of mine in the law.

I am in support of the ACA in general, though i feel that many of its tenets could be better implemented. It's not a bad idea for these clinics to be more versatile, but in practice it just means that they will shut down, and that was nakedly the intent with this law. It's similar to Voter ID laws, which are a nice idea on paper, but are just implemented to disenfranchise the poor, elderly, and differently abled.

In both cases, they're creating something similar to the "unfunded mandate." "We require you to be an ambulatory surgical center, but we won't help you actually become one. Sorry, you'll just have to shut down I guess." "You need a Driver's License to vote, but we're not going to increase hours at the DMV or provide options for cheaper photo IDs, in fact we're actually shutting down some of the DMV's in your areas to save costs. Sorry about that!"

Laying down regulations without offering aid for people to meet those regulations is a weasel-y way of outlawing something, something that the Right Wing *hates* when the Left did it to gun rights (namely Illinois making it insanely difficult to get a conceal-carry license to the point where it was basically illegal), and the supreme court declared that unconstitutional. I see no reason why this is any different.