By Rebecca Downs
Live Action News
While the abortion industry is certainly rejoicing, pro-lifers have cause for concern with the latest court rulings.
Operation Rescue has reported on three such rulings in which a judge, or numerous judges, have allowed abortion clinics to stay open. With the case of Toledo, Ohio, this was the city’s last abortion clinic. The ruling for Mississippi allowed the state’s only abortion clinic to remain open. Certainly for a city, or a state, to be without any abortion clinics would be daunting. The supposed right to an abortion does not mention that every state or city is required to have an abortion facility, however.
It is worth noting that the law struck down in Mississippi does not prevent any abortion clinic from ever existing in the state, as Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue points out. One would certainly think that with such a ruling from the Fifth Circuit, however. The
law required:
THAT ALL PHYSICIANS WHO PERFORM ABORTIONS IN ABORTION FACILITIES MUST HAVE ADMITTING PRIVILEGES AT A LOCAL HOSPITAL AND MUST BE BOARD CERTIFIED IN OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY
Also there are significant patient safety questions after major safety issues were discovered at other facilities operated by the same owner . From Operation Rescue:
Rebecca Downs graduated from Fordham University in August 2012, where she was a member of the Respect for Life club and College Republicans. She has also written for IRD's Juicy Ecumenism, Secular Pro-Life Perspectives and C-FAM and is now a staff writer for LifeNews.com. She first became interested in the Live Action campaign at the March for Life in 2010. Rebecca plans on attending Regent University School of Law so that she may impact the movement from a legal/political level.
