cali (83,530 posts)
This is what TRAP laws do: Fairfax City abortion clinic, busiest in Virginia, closes
A women’s health care clinic in Fairfax City that performed more abortions than any other location in Virginia has closed, and it’s unclear whether it will reopen elsewhere.
The closure, and the clinic’s difficulty finding new space, highlight a growing issue in the abortion debate: changes in local and state regulations and standards for abortion clinics.
NOVA Women’s Healthcare was in an office building on Eaton Place, just off Route 123 near Interstate 66, since 2006. Antiabortion protesters stood outside the building daily, the clinic was sued twice in the past three years by its landlord, and it likely faced a need to upgrade or move after Virginia changed its regulations to require abortion providers to have hospital-grade facilities.
After finding a possible alternative space in March, the clinic applied for a nonresidential use permit to retrofit that space in another office building. But the permit was denied in May because officials decided parking at the building was not adequate, zoning administrator Michelle Coleman said.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fairfax-city-abortion-clinic-busiest-in-virginia-closes/2013/07/14/23f3d450-eb17-11e2-8023-b7f07811d98e_story.html
TRAP laws (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) are a 100x more dangerous to abortion rights and abortion services than the more draconian laws that grab headlines- like life beginning at conception, or 20 week bans. They're harder to fight in court and not as many cases are brought.
They shut clinic doors.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023260968DUmmies are sad because some unborn children may now be given the chance to live.
cali (83,530 posts)
1. It says a lot about DU that the only threads surer to sink than abortion threads
are drone threads.
consider this a well placed kick.
Don't feel bad Cali all your fellow DUmmies absolutely adore abortion.
Star Member NutmegYankee (5,071 posts)
3. too busy preparing for work. nt
Star Member Ilsa (32,383 posts)
7. Even on DU, there isn't enough support
for abortion rights to keep threads up and enough activism at the ballot box to prevent the laws from being passed.
People don't get that the affected population of potential users of abortion clinic services aren't just 16-45 year old poor women.
Oh please everyone of you fools love abortion. The women so they can can have power over men, and the males at DU love abortion in hopes of getting laid.
Star Member gtar100 (2,629 posts)
9. So much concern for fetuses; so little concern for children.
Or humans in general once they're born. I do not understand the mentality of of abortion protesters. They think their job is done once a baby is born? Wipe their hands of all responsibility. Or if a woman dies because of the lack of care she needs, do they really think they aren't culpable? They are.
That's right you don't understand the mentality of abortion protesters. In your tiny mind a fetus is just a clump of cells, you can't comprehend that the unborn are just as human as any of us.
This mentality that if we don't support taking money from other people to buy them all x boxes and big screen tee vees makes us not care is insane. We think that people are quite capable of figuring out things for themselves.
Star Member lillypaddle (3,099 posts)
10. They aren't just chipping
away at abortion rights, they're knocking big chunks out. It is tragic the way this has been happening before our very eyes and it seems there is little we can do to stop it. "Never again" is turning into "Here we go again."
K&R
Abortion is tragic. You morons care you claim so much about the defenseless, yet the most innocent and the most defenseless amongst us are not worthy of even the right to life. How can you sleep at night knowing you support murder?
