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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Ah, sounds like a definite failure by the DH/DS in PA then. But I think the same query applies, does adding more regulation actually fix the problem in this case? I'm not sure it actually would have. Following the current regulations SHOULD have shut him down. (Was the third decade run underground or was his first decade in practice actually 'clean' ?). Restricting abortion to hospitals or similar facilities would be devastating to access for women, so does the law actually cause the problem it would intend to stop? It seems to me that it would.
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At what point does the "right" to a medical procedure trump the right for it to be regulated? I have a "right" to have my eyebrows waxed, but the state of TX regulates it - only licensed cosmetologists can do it, and their places of business are inspected and must meet certain standards.
It sounds like you are arguing for a moral reason for not changing the regulations while I am arguing, admittedly using a very unusual case, that there may be medical reasons for requiring facitilites to be held to a higher standard. I'd like the statistics for the incidence of clients at out-patient clinics having complications. I know of an abortion doctor's office here in Houston (now closed) that was well-known for having ambulances come to pick up patients on a rather frighteningly constant basis, but know of no place to get city/state/national statistics for that. Those would be useful.
(eta - it's easy to find statistics about complications in general - it's just not easy to find them broken down by hospital vs. out-patient or doctors' offices.)
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