Action | Amend the Regulation after Assessment and Receipt of Public Comment |
Stage | NOIRA |
Comment Period | Ended on 7/10/2019 |
Commonsense regulations setting standards for safe and sanitary conditions, and providing for periodic state inspections of facilities, are taken for granted in every other area of medical practice except abortion --be it childbirth, cosmetic surgery, tubal ligation, or anything else. Only in the case of abortion facilities is it seriously argued that absolutely no regulation is needed, that the very idea of regulation is vile, and that every abortion provider deserves total trust in their willingness to provide the highest standard of medical care for their patients, even if doing so costs money and reduces profits. And this argument is made in spite of the fact that the same lobby (and in some cases the same lobbyists) also asserts that abortion has to be legal in order to allow the government to regulate it, so as to protect women from "back alley butchers," etc. (Hypothetical "regulation," in that view, is okay as long as it stays purely hypothetical; it's just any and every actual regulation that's ever put in place that's objected to.) That stance is the height of cynical hypocrisy, and profoundly anti-woman to it's core.