Safe, Legal And Rare?

Dawn Eden gives us an excerpt form a letter by Virginia State Senator Ken Cuccinelli regarding keeping abortion Safe, Legal and Rare. She opens with this quote:

In following up on this tragedy [of the woman's death], I learned some startling facts. I did not know that abortion clinics are not regulated, nor are they required to be inspected by the Virginia Department of Health....

His attempt to legislate even the most basic medical standards failed in committee. He sums up this way:

Sadly, even reduced to these minimal provisions, it was too much for most of the members of the committee. We often hear that pro-choice advocates want abortions to be safe, legal and rare. But it is often hard to see this in their actions. I explicitly stated to the committee members that I was prepared to let any senator delete any of the provisions in the bill they felt were onerous. It was equally clear that each and every person there who claimed to be for safe abortions wanted no protections in place....

See Dawn's post for a fuller text of the letter and a link to the original. Ms. Eden's website is a valuable source of information on this and related topics. I would encourage you to make her site a regular read.

(Hat tip to Jinx McHue who directed me to The Dawn Patrol back in the day - not that long ago, but seeming ever so far away - when he wrote about such topics.)

(For an update on Ms. Eden's recent employment problems, see Tim Blair and The Dawn Patrol(here, here, here, here, and here).)