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In reply to the discussion: Updated: PP Responds: RNC Chair Priebus Suggests Democrats Support Infanticide [View all]SunSeeker
(51,748 posts)As I am sure you are aware, the Alabama Legislature late Tuesday adopted stringent new regulations for abortion clinics that the anti-choice nuts called a "step to protect women" but that are in fact medically unnecessary and a disguised effort to force the closing of the state's five abortion clinics.The bill, like measures passed last year in Mississippi and Tennessee and last month in North Dakota, would require that doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at local hospitals. Several of Alabama's clinics rely on doctors who fly in from out of state, and given the hostile political climate it appears unlikely that nearby hospitals would grant such privileges.
A similar admissions requirement passed last year in Mississippi would shut down that state's only abortion clinic, but enforcement is stayed while a federal court decides a challenge to the law as an unjustified infringement on access to abortion.
I can't believe a DUer supports such transparent attempts to shut down abortion clinics. Lack of access to abortion will kill women, not keep them "safe."