Anti-Choice Group Doubles Down on HB 2: Letter Warns Hospital Admitting Privileges Will Lead to Protests - News Blog - the Austi
t would seem that abortion foes would rest on their laurels after winning the SCOTUS bonus round of the HB 2 fight. After all, that decision means that abortion services will continue to be suspended at clinics across Texas. But like activist Veruca Salts, they don’t care how, they want it now.
We won’t even be treated to an atonal musical number first.
Mark Crutcher, the president of Denton-based anti-choice emporium Life Dynamics, recently sent out a letter to local hospitals thinly warning them that should they grant abortion-performing doctors admitting privileges, they better be prepared for a rumble.
He starts with an explanation of the law for today’s busy hospital administers who barely have time to keep up with The Big Bang Theory much less read headlines. “Recent changes in Texas law require doctor who work at abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals,” he says. “However, most of these people do not have such privileges and cannot get them.”