New Jersey residents' efforts to pressure their public advocate to ensure that abortion clinics there are regularly inspected by the Health Department were in vain, reports the Associated Press.
(Here's the story as it appeared in Newsday.)
This pressure came after the Health Department shut down two clinics, Metropolitan Medical Associates in Englewood and Alternatives in Atlantic City, this year. A woman nearly died following an abortion at the first and both centers were found to be filthy.
One would think that abortion advocates who express so much concern for women's "reproductive health" would be the crowd demanding sanitary conditions in Jersey abortion clinics.
Think again. Sales-pitch slogans only go so far.
Pro-life activists pressured the public advocate for a guarantee of clean abortion clinics and aftercare for those who aborted pregnancies at the two dirty facilities closed by the state.
New Jersey right to lifers' concern for "reproductive health" is real.
(c) 2007 Marybeth T. Hagan
Crossposting with http://www.mothermayibeborn.com
"Pro-life activists pressured the public advocate for a guarantee of clean abortion clinics -"
/:> ? I would have thought pro-life activists would have been pressuring for *no* abortion clinics at all, clean or otherwise.