Texas 20 Week Abortion Ban Takes Effect

Our Democrat friends should take heart: Texas's law is now more in line with Europe's.

by Rod D. Martin
October 29, 2013

As reported everywhere (but the Baptist Press story is most enlightening), Texas's ban on abortions after 20 weeks takes effect today, aside from one provision targeted by a Federal district judge.  Texas has appealed that ruling to the 5th Circuit.

What did the judge strike? A provision requiring abortionists (you know, doctors, albeit doctors without the slightest respect for their Hippocratic Oaths) to have admitting privileges at local hospitals; and also requiring that they follow FDA guidelines when giving women drugs to induce abortions.

Huh?  Really?

First, can the U.S. Constitution possibly be construed to prevent a state from regulating whether or not a doctor must have admitting privileges at a local hospital? Ridiculous, and also impractical: women die of abortion all the time, many of those deaths being preventable if the abortionist could get them quickly to a hospital.

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