Winning the fight against abortion
World Magazine has an article commenting on a PBS documentary about how the state of Mississippi only has one abortion clinic left. The PBS documentary of course is aghast at such a terrible thing. They should take comfort that there are least more abortion clinics in Mississippi than there are unbiased documentaries on PBS.

The documentary recounts how pro-life activists have managed to get the state into such a state by the following

• Pushing the state to pass laws preventing tax money from being used for abortion so that no institution that does abortions can take state funding. Ruling out hospitals and the like
  
• Getting informed consent laws in place to make women informed of fetal development and viewing a ultrasound
  
• Putting in place required waiting periods (Much like Labor pushed for in Oz recently)
  
• Making abortion clinics adhere to the same health and facility standards as other ambulatory surgical facilities (It's scary that this isn't the case by default)
  
• Requiring abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at local hospitals
  

Clearly, even without criminalising abortion, there is much that can be done.
- posted by Alan Grey @ Friday, November 04, 2005