Less than 0.5% of abortions result in major complications.
Oh! Well then, those ~5300 women who had major complications can rest assured that there is no need for improvement. Are you really going to argue that?
are you really saying that a woman needs a doctor with her in order for
the ER to admit her during an emergency?
That’s not how it works. If a doctor has admit privileges, they can call the hospital and have them admitted before even making to the hospital. People will be waiting to treat the patient. If they go to the ER, they have to be triaged, stabilized in the ER, and then transferred to the OR or the floor. That increased time may be the difference between life and death.
You also seem to be implying that abortion doctors are refused
admitting privileges because they are not good doctors. Do you really
think that the refusal has nothing to do with the fact that they are
performing abortions?
Do you have evidence to back up your claim?
Also, don’t admitting privileges come with
requirements like living close to the hospital, admitting a certain
number of patients per year (hard to do if your patients rarely have
complications), or attending meetings? [Note: In general, the
requirements for admitting privileges vary from hospital to hospital
and also have different “levels” at a given hospital.]
You seem to have argued with yourself on this one. It’s different at different facilities. Are you trying to argue that there is no need for a doctor who is vetted with the local hospital?
You also seem to be really focused on “for profit businesses”.
I focus on the for profit part because the reality of the situation is that these businesses are making money from women in a vulnerable position. These women often feel they have no choice but to accept the clinic as is but I feel that they should be assured of a minimum level of safety.
If these businesses are making so much money, why is it expected that
most of them are going to be shut down because of the cost of
upgrading their facilities?
I’ve seen these sort of arguments before. It happens any time we place safety or environmental regulations on businesses “No! You can’t regulate my business! I’ll have to close my doors if you do!” That’s a sorry argument especially since it never goes down like that. A requirement is placed on a business, that business is given time to comply with the new requirement, if they don’t meet the deadline they have to file for an extension, if they don’t make the extension they pay a fine and get another extension.
The reality is that with the passing of these laws women are probably
just going to go to black markets to get their abortions
You are going to use a border town flea market specializing in providing to the under/slave class of the US as a model for what will happen? Really? Those operations will exist no matter what happens. That’s a human rights issue that needs its own attention.
In any case, this bill won’t shutter a single clinic.
