| | '''The ''L.A. Times'' Describes an Overcrowded Abortion Clinic, But Opposes a Missouri Law to Improve It''' | | '''The ''L.A. Times'' Describes an Overcrowded Abortion Clinic, But Opposes a Missouri Law to Improve It''' |
| − | Monday the ''L.A. Times'' reported that "Planned Parenthood's clinic here in central Missouri performs about 600 first-trimester abortions a year, drawing patients from areas several hours away. Surgical abortions take place in two '''small''' exam rooms as the patient, often sedated with a Valium, lies on a padded table, her feet in stirrups. The recovery room, painted blue, is '''crowded''', the vinyl recliners positioned so close to one another, '''patients could hold hands'''."<ref>Stephanie Simon, "Facilities that regularly provide first-trimester terminations — including the pill version — may be regulated as outpatient surgical centers. Two of the state's three clinics would have to close," Los Angeles Times (Sept. 10, 2007), http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-abortion10sep10,1,4090012.story?coll=la-headlines-nation</ref>
| + | The ''L.A. Times'' reported Monday that "Planned Parenthood's clinic here in central Missouri performs about 600 first-trimester abortions a year, drawing patients from areas several hours away. Surgical abortions take place in two '''small''' exam rooms as the patient, often sedated with a Valium, lies on a padded table, her feet in stirrups. The recovery room, painted blue, is '''crowded''', the vinyl recliners positioned so close to one another, '''patients could hold hands'''."<ref>Stephanie Simon, "Facilities that regularly provide first-trimester terminations — including the pill version — may be regulated as outpatient surgical centers. Two of the state's three clinics would have to close," Los Angeles Times (Sept. 10, 2007), http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-abortion10sep10,1,4090012.story?coll=la-headlines-nation</ref> |
| | Its inhumane to subject mothers to over-crowded post-abortion facilities like that. [[Planned Parenthood]] enjoys an annual profit of over $50 million as the [[United States]]' largest [[abortion]] provider,<ref>http://www.lifeissues.org/pp/index.html</ref> but a clinic pleads poverty in complying with a new Missouri law requiring the same conditions for abortion patients as other surgical patients. | | Its inhumane to subject mothers to over-crowded post-abortion facilities like that. [[Planned Parenthood]] enjoys an annual profit of over $50 million as the [[United States]]' largest [[abortion]] provider,<ref>http://www.lifeissues.org/pp/index.html</ref> but a clinic pleads poverty in complying with a new Missouri law requiring the same conditions for abortion patients as other surgical patients. |