re: #442 lawhawk

Let’s also not forget that Gosnell operated in DE and PA, and state regulators didn’t bother to check on any complaints against him, and that his arrest only came after the state was investigating him on pill-mill related charges and found the horror show of egregious issues.

The state, which had licensing and oversight rules on how a clinic should function/operate, didn’t bother enforcing the law on the books, prosecutors didn’t bother investigating mysterious deaths of his former patients, and didn’t bother going inside the clinic at all. Had they done any of that, Gosnell would have been stopped so much sooner.

TRAP laws, on the other hand, are meant to put legitimate clinics out of business with restrictions and regulations that are oppressive and meant to be so cost-prohibitive that they can’t be met; whether it’s requiring medical facilities to be of a certain type, or that the doctor has to have admitting privileges at a hospital within a certain distance of the clinic, etc.

Yes, exactly.

It’s not irony, it’s more like proof of maleficence on the part of the ‘pro-life’ forces. I don’t know why that’s not crystal clear to everyone.