Advocates Claim Politics Behind Closing of Louisiana Abortion Clinic

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http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2010/09/04/advocates-claim-politics-play-closing-lousiana-abortion-clinic


Louisiana. It's the state that five years later is still recovering from Hurricane Katrina. The one where the economy is still reeling from the recent BP oil disaster, while the Governor, Bobby Jindal, according to the Wall Street Journal, is still fighting tooth and nail against any reasonable regulation of deep-water oil drilling. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that Louisiana has an unemployment rate of 8.3 percent, and the United States Department of Agriculture ranks Louisiana first among all other states in child food insecurity, with more than 200,000 children getting so little food and nutrition that they face possible impairment in intellectual, physical and emotional development that can hinder them from reaching their full potential.

And as if these things were not proof enough that the state government has more than enough to be worried about, its own failure to regulate the oil and chemical industries threatens the health and lives of children and their families daily, via regular exposure to industrial waste and contamination from oil and chemical industries linked to asthma, cancer, infertility, miscarriage, low birth weight, low sperm count, and developmental and respiratory disorders for children exposed in utero.

But with all these issues at hand, the state of Louisiana has other priorities. Late afternoon on Friday, September 3rd, on the eve of Labor Day weekend and in a politically-motivated action, the state of Louisiana revoked the license of Hope Medical Group for Women, ordering it to close and immediately cease providing abortion care.

But before the state notified Hope Medical Group's founder, Robin Rothrock, of the order of closure or the reasons for issuing the order, it notified the media, and then sent a fax to the clinic. After business hours.
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Hope Medical Group for Women has been there for 30 yrs.!

and the article ends with this:

"Meanwhile, it seems as though the worst enemy of low-income women and children in the state of Louisiana is the state government itself."

and the state govt. is probably 90% male. males that really respect poor women. sure.

[MountainLaurel]

1. Of course it is

You only have to look at the women-hating legislation passed this past session to know that.