Doctors' group intervenes in Kansas abortion case

Doctors' group intervenes in Kansas abortion case: The American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists filed a motion to intervene in the case Monday, along with a notice of its appeal of the injunction. The group claims it has legal standing in the case because its members in Kansas are losing childbirth-related business to abortion clinics. It also says its members are placed at a competitive disadvantage because abortion providers pass along the costs of any complications or medical care after abortions to other doctors.

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"We oppose abortion because it is the intentional killing of an innocent unborn child. . . . However, our intercession in the case mentioned below . . . concerns an acceptable standard of care for women's health. Induced abortion is the law of the land. . . . As the Philadelphia case of Kermit Gosnell starkly demonstrated, unregulated abortion clinics can degenerate to unbelievably gross, unsanitary, medically unacceptable standards. The government has a responsibility to protect the general public from this kind of wanton dissolution.

"That is one reason the FDA exists, and that the State health departments have all kinds of regulations for hospitals and offices---except, often, for abortion clinics. Currently, only 23 states have health and safety regulations for abortion clinics. In eight states, laws are on the books but are being blocked by court action. Kansas is one of those.

"Abortion clinic regulations exist for the protection of the patient. (Who is protecting the women in the 27 states without regulations? In Philadelphia, apparently no one. . . . And who is responsible for follow up care of complications?"