How important are abortion clinic regulations to the safety of you and your family? The independent film, Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer, currently playing in theaters, tells the disturbing story of how an unregulated abortion clinic in Pennsylvania led to the most prolific serial killer in American history. Dr. Gosnell killed hundreds of infants born alive during abortion procedures for many years, but in May 2013, he was convicted of first degree murder in the deaths of three of the infants and involuntary manslaughter in the death of Karnamaya Mongar, a young immigrant mother.
Excellent investigators and lawyers made this happen. Along with those verdicts, Dr. Gosnell was also convicted of 21 felony counts of illegal late-term abortion, and 211 counts of violating the 24-hour informed consent law. After his conviction, Gosnell waived his right to appeal in exchange for an agreement that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania would not seek the death penalty against him. Rather, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Incredibly, many state officials want to make it possible for the same type of horror that Dr. Gosnell passed off as care to happen to women and children in your city. For example, after years of regulatory efforts under the McAuliffe administration to significantly undercut the common-sense health and safety standards for abortion centers, Virginia legislators and administrators are weakening regulation on abortion clinic services even more.
Virginia’s Family Foundation has filed an ongoing lawsuit against the Virginia Board of Health to protect women and children from abortion harm. Earlier this month, the Board of Health published an official Notice of its intent to eliminate regulations governing abortion center standards in ways that are truly unprecedented.
Rather than allow abortion centers to be free from regulatory influence, states have a duty first and foremost to protect its own citizens, which includes the women and children who enter those clinics. The Rise and Fall of Women’s Rights: Have Sexuality and Reproductive Freedom Forfeited Victory? details this and other problems with abortion, outlining the jurisprudence that simultaneously upholds and weakens life protections. Family restoration abhors abortion, and yet abortion clinic regulations should be important to every family, as every state has a primary duty to protect its citizens from harm.
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