2aguy
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Jonah Goldberg has a good idea.....put the names of women who are considered unstable on a list that keeps them from having an abortion...the list will be secret, and if a woman is stopped from having an abortion she can try to get her name off the list.....
The Left's Different Approach to Rights That It Opposes
I have an idea.
The federal government needs to compile a list of women who shouldn't be allowed to get abortions. The criteria for getting on the list must be flexible. If an official at, say, the NIH or FBI think that a woman should be a mother for some reason or other, he or she can block an abortion. Maybe the woman has great genes or a high IQ or the sorts of financial resources we need in parents. Let's leave that decision where it belongs: in the hands of the government.
Heck, there's really no reason even to tell women if they're on the "no abort" list. Let them find out at the clinic. And if they go in for an abortion only to discover they are among the million or more people on the list, there will be no clear process for getting off it, even if it was a bureaucratic error or case of mistaken identity.
Sound like a good idea?
You probably don't think so, particularly if you took part in the celebratory riot of good feeling in the wake of the Supreme Court's recent decision striking down Texas abortion regulations. In the case of Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, the court ruled that Texas could not raise the required health and safety standards of abortion clinics to match those of other "ambulatory surgical centers." The reforms were implemented in the wake of the Kermit Gosnell scandal in which the Philadelphia abortionist's abattoir was revealed to be more like the setting for a "Saw" movie than a decent medical clinic.
The court held that abortion is such a fundamental constitutional right that minimal health standards are an "undue burden" on women seeking an abortion, even if they might save women's lives.
The Left's Different Approach to Rights That It Opposes
I have an idea.
The federal government needs to compile a list of women who shouldn't be allowed to get abortions. The criteria for getting on the list must be flexible. If an official at, say, the NIH or FBI think that a woman should be a mother for some reason or other, he or she can block an abortion. Maybe the woman has great genes or a high IQ or the sorts of financial resources we need in parents. Let's leave that decision where it belongs: in the hands of the government.
Heck, there's really no reason even to tell women if they're on the "no abort" list. Let them find out at the clinic. And if they go in for an abortion only to discover they are among the million or more people on the list, there will be no clear process for getting off it, even if it was a bureaucratic error or case of mistaken identity.
Sound like a good idea?
You probably don't think so, particularly if you took part in the celebratory riot of good feeling in the wake of the Supreme Court's recent decision striking down Texas abortion regulations. In the case of Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, the court ruled that Texas could not raise the required health and safety standards of abortion clinics to match those of other "ambulatory surgical centers." The reforms were implemented in the wake of the Kermit Gosnell scandal in which the Philadelphia abortionist's abattoir was revealed to be more like the setting for a "Saw" movie than a decent medical clinic.
The court held that abortion is such a fundamental constitutional right that minimal health standards are an "undue burden" on women seeking an abortion, even if they might save women's lives.
