Discussion: <span class="s1">Is One Key Anti-Abortion Attack Beginning To Fall To Pieces?

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Just so people know, the practical problem with these doctors having admitting privileges is that no hospital staff wants to take on this no-win hot potato. If your hospital grants privileges to an abortion provider, the next morning you’ll have (often loud and very visible) picketers at your hospital’s front door, and patients will go elsewhere. This is true up here in the north, and I would guess it’s even more so down south.

BTW, when docs apply for medical malpractice insurance, or apply for a state license or renewal, one of the questions inevitably asked is “have you ever been denied admitting privileges at a hospital/by a medical staff?” I would imagine that most abortion providers rarely ever even bother attempting to enter this thicket, and I’m sure that hospitals don’t encourage them.

In practice, in the (very!) rare cases where hospital admission is needed post-Ab, the provider typically has previously thought about and worked out where to send the patient and who to transfer care to in this eventuality. So while this now-common requirement for clinics sounds ostensibly reasonable, it’s really solely intended to shut down clinics and reduce accessibility, as I believe (and hope!) the courts will recognize.

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Sorry. Grammar and/or typos got in the way of clarity here. Gave up reading the article.

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Right! I made it as far as “admitting privileges on their own are not an undue burden on their own.”, and “since the law was intended was to close Jackson Women’s Health Organization” in two successive sentences.

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When the effect of any of these so called laws to ‘protect women’ is outright denial of women’s personhood and constitutional rights, we can safely assume the problem is misogynistic attitudes toward women.

If corporations could reproduce, abortions and contraception would be entitled to tax breaks, instead of abolition.

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I’m not sure that knowing there’s a dentist in NYC would be a great comfort to me upstate if the law closed all the dentist’s office here.

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It doesn’t sound the least bit reasonable to me. These laws are only trap laws. Period. Like voter ID, they’re a fake solution looking for a fake problem in order to further the goals of the far right.

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