Are abortion clinics medical facilities?

Abortion clinics are making the news again, this time in Virginia.  How this affects abortion clinics in Pennsylvania will be clear to see.  It seems that the legislature in VA has voted to make the abortion clinics as clean and up to date as most medical centers.  Why is this so important?  Because when these death clinics are unregulated or regulated very little you get atrocities like we had in Philadelphia.  That’s where the abortionist was charged with seven murders including one woman in her last trimester, often throwing baby body parts in the dumpster or storing them in bottles in the refrigerator.

I’m not sure that any reasonable human being would argue with the fact that when a woman is placed on an operating room table and invasive surgery is performed that they should be treated any differently than at a medical center, would they?  But this has the pro-abortion people in VA up in arms saying that regulations to make the clinics safer and cleaner will force most abortion clinics to close because they can’t meet the standards.  We are not talking about drastic changes to the way clinics are dealing death but they would be required to widen hallways and having increased training for staff as well as having modern and up to date equipment.  Even our own Harrisburg abortion clinics have been cited for various problems similar to these and the Corbett administration has vowed to regulate and inspect these death “clinics” more extensively.  So what is the problem here?  The problem doesn’t seem to be the cleanliness or medical standards, it’s about ideology.   How dare a republican governor (who is also a Catholic) and the republican house want abortion clinics to be as safe and clean as possible?  The outrage!

"It is not about banning abortions," said Sen. Jill Vogel, R-Winchester. "It is simply caring for women who are about to have an invasive surgical procedure and creating an environment for them where they have the opportunity to do that in a place that is safe."  Again, it sounds reasonable – to most people.  As I said in earlier articles we must continue to pray like nobody’s business on the abortion issue.  We must pray for our state legislators and our governor to look after the unborn and provide them with safe alternatives like adoption rather than ending a life.  Its time for our elected officials take a stand on the sanctity of human life and praise God that their mothers did not chose to abort them.  Catholics, Protestants, Jewish people and other religions need to take a stand here in Harrisburg and pray for a revival that will set this commonwealth back on the path of following the Almighty.