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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Requiring Admitting Privileges to Protect Women


Rebecca Downs - Analysis
Live Action News

We live in a society where abortion is not only legal, but is for all nine months, pretty much for any reason, because the Supreme Court decided that the “health” of the mother could be just about anything. Because of such a far overreaching pro-abortion decision, we celebrate the small steps towards sanity that certain pro-life laws bring.

Take state laws which require abortionists to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. Why you would want to go to a doctor who doesn’t have such privileges, for any procedure, especially one that is invasive and deals with such sensitive organs, I can’t say. It is even more tragic that many women getting an abortion don’t know such pertinent details when it comes to the provider seeing them.



Is requiring that a provider have hospital privileges going to make abortions safer for an unborn child? Sadly, no. But, we can hope that it will at least not kill the mother in the process if an emergency were to happen and lifesaving treatment needed to be administered quickly.

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 Some additional information from Mike McMonagle, President of the Pro-Life Coalition of Pennsylvania on Admitting Privileges Legislation in Pennsylvania:

This life saving legislation requires abortionists to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the abortion chamber where they seek to commit abortions.  Several states, in addition to Texas, have recently passed this legislation.

But in Pa.…, an unexpected barrier to its passage has arisen.  At a June 4, 2014 meeting with Ted Meehan, Sue Doller and me, Rep. Ron Marsico, the Chairman of the Pa. House Judiciary Committee, told us that he would not run this legislation (H.B.1762) until unified support exists among pro-life organizations in Pa. for this legislation.  Rep. Marsico identified the lack of support from the Pa. Pro-Life Federation and Rep. Jerry Stern (who is the co-Chairman of the Pa. House Pro-Life Caucus and a co-sponsor of this bill) as his principal reasons for not running this bill.

An urgent need exists to pass this bill in the Pa. House in June, so it has a realistic chance of passing in the Pa. Senate, so it can be signed by Gov. Tom Corbett while he is still in office.

So, please contact Rep. Stern at jstern@pahousegop.com and 717-787-9020 and ask him to urge Rep. Marsico to run H.B.1762 in the Pa. House Judiciary Committee as soon as possible.



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