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Attention Virginians!

September 12, 2012/5 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard

This Friday, the Virginia Board of Health will once again consider safety regulations for abortion centers.  Perhaps the most important of these is a requirement that hallways and doorways be wide enough to accommodate a stretcher in cases of emergency (for why, click on the photo at right to enlarge).  Pro-choice groups are strongly opposed to the requirements, arguing that the expenses involved are high enough to drive abortion centers out of business.  They’d rather have an unsafe, open clinic than a closed one.

The state legislature passed a comprehensive abortion clinic regulation statute last year, setting forth minimum standards and directing the Board of Health to work out the details.  In June, the Board of Health came back with something below the statutory minimum, and the Attorney General’s Office sent them back to the drawing board.

There will be a hearing, open to the public, this Friday morning.  Last time, abortion supporters were out in full force.  We need plenty of pro-life bodies to show that this measure DOES have grassroots support, and that pro-life is pro-woman!

The address is 9960 Mayland Drive, Richmond, VA (boardroom 2).  The earlier you get there, the more likely you are to get a space in the room itself; first come, first served.  If you do get there later, you can help simply by being a pro-life presence in front of the building, where there are sure to be plenty of news cameras.  If possible, wear a pro-life shirt or button, or carry a pro-life sign.

Hope to see you there!

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https://secularprolife.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/SecularProlife2.png 0 0 Kelsey Hazzard https://secularprolife.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/SecularProlife2.png Kelsey Hazzard2012-09-12 13:46:002021-11-08 12:40:30Attention Virginians!
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  1. Bryan
    Bryan says:
    September 12, 2012 at 4:41 pm

    I
    call bullshit.

    First off, abortion is no more dangerous than any other medical procedure, even
    less so in many cases:

    http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html/

    Furthermore, from Mississippi to Virginia, damn near all the
    legislators spearheading regulation on abortion clinics are well-known pro-life advocates. For example, in the aforementioned state of Mississippi,
    here's some comments from legislators after passing "a simple health-and-safety measure":

    http://www.economist.com/node/21562215

    And here's the thoughts of one of the six doctors originally called on to draft
    regulations for abortion clinics in Virginia:

    Doctor
    Ferguson also talked about how no other clinics have to follow guidelines as
    strict as the ones that were proposed back in June and are more or less being proposed again:

    http://www.nbc29.com/story/18794646/uva-gynecologist-speaks-out-ahead-of-abortion-regulation-approval

    Also, as a side note, I've found that any picture that uses the phrase
    'abortion mill' is probably of dubious reliability.

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  2. Bryan
    Bryan says:
    September 12, 2012 at 5:46 pm

    I call bullshit.

    First off, abortion is no more dangerous than any
    other medical procedure, even

    less so in many cases:

    http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html/

    Furthermore, from Mississippi to Virginia, damn near
    all the

    legislators spearheading regulation on abortion
    clinics are well-known pro-life advocates. For example, in the aforementioned
    state of Mississippi,

    here's some comments from legislators after passing
    "a simple health-and-safety measure":

    http://www.economist.com/node/21562215

    And here's the thoughts of one of the six doctors
    originally called on to draft

    regulations for abortion clinics in Virginia:

    Doctor

    Ferguson also talked about how no other clinics have
    to follow guidelines as

    strict as the ones that were proposed back in June
    and are more or less being proposed again:

    http://www.nbc29.com/story/18794646/uva-gynecologist-speaks-out-ahead-of-abortion-regulation-approval

    Also, as a side note, I've found that any picture
    that uses the phrase

    'abortion mill' is probably of dubious reliability.

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  3. Regis O'Connoley
    Regis O'Connoley says:
    September 23, 2012 at 4:56 pm

    Is there a list of the names of the hundreds or thousands of women sickened or injured as a
    result of malpractice at VA state abortion clinics. I understand that bad stuff happens in other states, like Birmingham, Alabama. But is there any list/record/proof of women who have been harmed by the abortion providers in VA? It's really important to get those facts out there if it's been happening.

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  4. Kelsey
    Kelsey says:
    September 24, 2012 at 3:56 pm

    Regis, you can find details at AbortionSafety.com and AbortionDocs.org. Both include original scans of malpractice lawsuits. I'm sure there is more out there, but what they have is a start.

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  5. Regis O'Connoley
    Regis O'Connoley says:
    September 24, 2012 at 11:40 pm

    Sorry, this isn't what I was looking for. On your site there are less than ten lawsuits some as early as 1993 listed in virginia. I wanted the list of the hundreds or thousands of women who the court found to have been harmed as a result of unsafe abortion procedure. This is the sort of information that the public needs to hear about. Otherwise the pro-life movement could be discredited by people who would claim the regulations are meant to make abortions impossible to administer in Virginia.

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