Terry McAuliffe Leads in Final Polls

[_Abyssinia]

That’s exactly what I was referring to. I couldn’t cut and paste the link on my Kindle.

The governor’s actions do not, so far, spare the state’s abortion clinics from having to widen hallways, add parking spaces and make other costly building renovations called for in the regulations.

washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/mcauliffe-calls-for-review-of-abortion-clinic-regulations/2014/05/12/ec723fac-d9e1-11e3-8009-71de85b9c527_story.html

I think abortion clinics having to meet regulations for hallways etc. means they have to meet ambulatory surgical centers requirements.

Consider this from the Grand Jury report from the Kermit Gosnell case

The Health Care Facilities Act defines an Ambulatory Surgical Facility as:

A facility or portion thereof not located upon the premises of a hospital which provides specialty or multispecialty outpatient surgical treatment. Ambulatory surgical facility does not include individual or group practice offices of private physicians or dentists, unless such offices have a distinct part used solely for outpatient surgical treatment on a regular and organized basis. For the purposes of this provision, outpatient surgical treatment means surgical treatment to patients who do not require hospitalization, but who require constant medical supervision following the surgical procedure performed.

This is precisely what Gosnell’s clinic was – a facility that provided specialty outpatient surgical treatment. And, by definition, so are all freestanding abortion clinics (those not associated with hospitals). The regulations that DOH wrote pursuant to the Abortion Control Act (18 Pa. C.S. §3201 et seq.) are entitled “Regulations for Ambulatory Gynecological Surgery” (28 Pa. Code 29.1, et seq.). Section 29.33(13)
expressly requires:

Each patient shall be supervised constantly while recovering from surgery or anesthesia, until she is released from recovery by a registered nurse or a licensed practical nurse under the direction of a registered nurse or a physician. The nurse shall evaluate the condition of the patient and enter a report of the evaluation and orders in the medical record of the patient.

The plain language of the Health Care Facilities Act mandates that abortion clinics should be regulated, licensed, and monitored as Ambulatory Surgical Facilities. DOH licenses many types of facilities as ASFs, including endoscopy centers, where colonoscopies are performed; offices where plastic surgery procedures such as liposuction, facelifts, and breast augmentation are performed; and eye surgery centers.

Pages 158 and 159: phila.gov/districtattorney/pdfs/grandjurywomensmedical.pdf

Consider what the Health Care Faciltiies Act says, I do not know any state can not have to require clinics that provide abortion to meet ambulatory surgical centers requirements.

Also consider this from the report:

There might have been some slim hope of reviving Mrs. Mongar. The paramedics were able to generate a weak pulse. But, because of the cluttered hallways and the padlocked emergency door, it took them over twenty minutes just to find a way to get her out of the building.

Ambulances were summoned to pick up the waiting patients, but (just as on the night Mrs. Mongar died three months earlier), no one, not even Gosnell, knew where the keys were to open the emergency exit. Emergency personnel had to use bolt cutters to remove the lock. They discovered they could not maneuver stretchers through the building’s narrow hallways to reach the patients (just as emergency personnel had been obstructed from reaching Mrs. Mongar).

Clinics must have doors, elevators, and other passages adequate to allow stretcher-borne patients to be carried to a street-level exit. Gosnell’s clinic, with its narrow, twisted passageways, could not accommodate a stretcher at all.

phila.gov/districtattorney/pdfs/grandjurywomensmedical.pdf

 

[estesbob]

When you vote for a Democrat you get promotion of abortion and homosexual marriage. And still Catholics still vote them.

 

[NormW]

When you vote for a Democrat you get promotion of abortion and homosexual marriage. And still Catholics still vote them.

Why do they still vote for them?

 

[RACJ]

Every year the Democrat envelope is pushed further and further from Biblical principles, and their voters gobble up the pabulum like it’s a T-Bone steak.

 

[estesbob]

Why do they still vote for them?

Animosity towards the GOP almost entirely based on misrepresentations of what GOP policies are.

 

[ProVobis]

When you vote for a Democrat you get promotion of abortion and homosexual marriage. And still Catholics still vote them.

Bob, for it to do much good, you may need to disseminate such messages in Spanish.

 

[MJE]

Gov. McAuliffe, a good friend of Bill & Hilary Clinton, does not want high standard building codes for the VA abortion clinics, which would be the rule in other health care clinics and hospitals. The Democrats talk “abortion is health care”. Except for the codes?
Kermit Gosnell’s clinic?