Hmmm, right-wingers for more regulations? Please, this is a not-too-vailed-attempt to shut down women's health clinics. If men could get pregnant, abortion would be an amendment to the constition.

Safe Legal Rare

Safe comes first as the health of the woman is the paramount concern.

Legal as in who needs the law involved in such a personal choice

Rare because reliable birth control is readily available as well as honest information freely and openly available.

But I'll another:
Free. Free too.
All four aspects need improvement.

SAFE. Safe for whom, Mr. Rational? Certainly not safe for the baby, who gets sucked out by a vacuum device.
LEGAL. Murder is legal, in the case of capital punishment and self-defense, except that a fetus is completely innocent, so it can't be committing a crime or defending itself.
RARE. 40% of pregnancies in NYC end in abortions says the New York Times. That isn't rare by any definition.
If conservatives are chipping away at so-called abortion rights, so be it. Abortion is invasive surgery -- long needles and suction tubes get inserted into a woman's body cavity far beyond the reach of a hand -- that's an abortion. Why shouldn't it be regulated any differently than other invasive surgeries. If a doctor were butchering people's boob jobs, abortion activists would be screaming for regulation. Why is abortion any different. It's invasive surgery.

Tattoo Parlors are probably better regulated in this state.

It's ridiculous that women in Maryland must put their lives at risk to undergo *any* procedure, medical or dental. If abortion clinics can't revive patients who become unconscious, they should not offer this procedure. I applaud Virginia's efforts to regulate what is, after all, termed by pro-choice advocates to be a procedure that is (in the words of UK doctors, anyway) safer than childbirth for the mother. I don't think that Maryland's clinics can guarantee that level of safety.

Ideally, we would not need these clinics at all. There are many families who would happily adopt babies born to mothers who are not ready to be parents (even Down Syndrome babies - 90% are aborted and there are many, many loving families who want to adopt them).

But, if women are going to go to abortion clinics, they should be able to feel confident that their life and long-term health are not in danger.

Let’s take the word “abortion” out of here and replace it with “dental procedure” or “colonoscopy.” See how dumb the argument becomes?

It is entirely reasonable to hold abortion clinics to the same standards as outpatient surgery centers. But when the Maryland Catholic Conference is stating that simple common sense approach they are vilified. It is a very sad commentary on the values of some that they would think it just fine that women should risk a greater chance of serious harm having an elective procedure than they would have during a necessary procedure. Sometimes during the process of liberal hand wringing the logic nerve is destroyed.

Of course most woman’s right to choose is not fatal, well, at least not for them.

Has anyone worked up the statistics on how many of the babies die during these procedures?

Maybe Planned Parenthood or NARAL can help us out with that, I’m sure they keep a tally.

Where are all of the "choice" voices? Doesn't "choice" imply "informed"? Let these young and not so young women know in advance that the clinic is not currently regulated and if something goes wrong she'll be put in the back of a car and "rushed" to an ER. Why a car? These "clinics" don't even have to have an ambulance. It's atrocious what the abortion lobby has foisted on an unknowing public and more atrocious that the left wing legislature has gone along with it.

As the news has shown us, back alley child murder is still all around.
Murder mills such as Planned Parenthoodlums must meet the same standards that any other medical clinic must meet.

No more "doctors" who butcher their "patients" and then must rush them in their private autos to another state to try to save their lives.

My 16 year old daughter can get her offspring sliced and diced EASIER and faster than I can buy a new handgun!

I agree the state should insist and regulate to ensure that these clinics are safe and staffed by qualified doctors and technicians. That should not impose a difficult obstacle on these clinics and should not make these clinics any less available to the women who decide to utilize their services. The whole point of Rowe was to give all women the same access to safe reproductive options that the rich and powerful enjoyed.

We need to ensure that the anti-choice zealots are not trying to utilize this tragedy to attempt to force their personal views on society and force women into even more dangerous options.

I am as big of a Clinton loving, Obama supporting liberal/progressive that you will find anywhere. But to me this is a no-brainer.

I certainly would not have my sister, daughter, niece to have a procedure in any facility that does not have high standards of care. Can a man have a vasectomy in a facility such as this?

As for those of my political persuasion who feel the "right" is using this as a ploy to reduce the number of abortions, we just have to deal with it. It is not like we don't find ways to lessen to circumvent laws that we do not like.

Vet clinics are more regulated than abortion clinics, but I keep hearing that it's all about women's health??? Right.

This is a great Idea even if it does have the effect of making it tougher to get an abortion. I cant see any woman who is not scared to death about how she is going to afford this child or what it is going to do to her life and her Body who would really be willing to take a Large risk of dying if they knew the chances of actually getting really hurt or dying. Also the Doctors who Perform Abortions are a lot like Teachers. If they were any good at being a Doctor they would be able to make plenty of money without murdering people on purpose.

Who came up with the name Abortion anyhow I do not like using it. It is a Lie The real Name is Baby Killing The same thing that the pro Abortionists or correctly put Pro Baby killers whined about and accused American solders of after VN. Why to Pro Life People Even Use this False Moniker. It is the best Name they could come up with to hide the real Name BABY KILLING

Riddle me this: why would planned parenthood be worried about being regulated in the same manner as somewhere performing outpatient orthopedic surgery? I'm moderate pro-choice, but im embarassed by PP now.

'Safe' baby killing. The devil's joke of all history.

If men had abortions.... but consider this from an anthropologist, Marvin Harris

Due to differences in physiology, women necessarily had children. Men had greater muscle mass and wielded the weapons against animals and other humans.

Those who had the weapons eventually attained political as well as military power. The men were never going to give up the weapons.

This was long before the sniper rifle. During the Vietnam conflict a man or a woman could snipe a U.S. soldier equally well. But when killing was up close and personal.... there was a division by gender.

Wow... someone would actually care enough about their sister, niece, their own daughter to take them to kill their own child... safely. Unbelievable.

I was one of the people who testified about this bill. As a medical professional studying to be a VOLUNTEER EMT, I am held personally responsible for the Standard of Care I may be called to provide. Surely, if I was to go to have a surgical procedure, I would want to have emergency equipment there and TRAINED staff. Most of the staff in the clinics are trained even less than the groomers at Pet shops (no offense to the pet shops). How much more so should they be trained when they are doing Invasive surgery??

To fail to make abortion clinics be held to the same safety standard as every other outpatient surgery center is taking liberalism to new lows.

Why not just say, "Hey, as long as they get rid of the baby, who cares?"

And THAT is called PROGRESSIVE??