There is an old quip, "consider the source," that prompts my comment on the new regulations governing clinics that provide pregnancy termination.

I read today's paper and saw that the same legislative body that is driving oppressive intrusions into personal medical decisions is also expanding the death penalty.  This completely precludes any depiction of the legislative body or its cohorts who support the supposed "safety" legislation from claiming any affiliation with a "pro life" stance.  Rather, it appears clearly anti-woman and judgemental from a very narrow point of view.

I have never been pregnant and believe decisions about pregnancy are mainly the affair of those who get pregnant and their doctors.  I am deeply concerned about the erosion of privacy in all aspects in today's United States, even under the supposed "Patriot Act."  It is all too Orwellian.

It has not been so long since women could not vote (we were last class of citizens to receive that right).  Women and children were too long considered mere chattels and the current effort to remove a woman's ability to make her own medical decisions harkens to those dark times of the past.  It is not possible to "protect" women and children by substituting the judgement of a male power brokers for that of a woman herself and her doctors.

No one should have to proclaim how they would make a medical decision or be endangered by convoluted regulation to prevent the use of medically appropriate procedures.  I see nothing "protective" in these regulations.