Guess which party Senator Donna Campbell belongs to? Hint? She is in Texas.
Well she is in favour of Senate Bill 537 which would force all State Abortion Clinics to comply with regulations involving surgical centres by providing a surgeon on premises to deal with complications of abortion.
“After a colonoscopy on a man, he comes in bleeding in the emergency room from the rectum and we’ve got a surgeon on call,” Campbell says. “But we don’t have somebody on call for a lady who is hemorrhaging in the uterus from a procedure that was done at a facility that was held at less standards. So I applaud this bill. I jumped on this bill as a physician and as a woman.”
While to most readers the comparison of the two procedures may sound weird or even valid. After all it’s a plan to increase the safety of abortions.
Well… It’s a plan that’s worked before. By setting an unreasonable standard of care you can force the closure of clinics. This bill is designed to close and reduce the availability of abortions. It would be like suggesting that Kindergartens possess a full paramedic team and A&E room on site to care for children’s injuries. The fact of the matter is that abortion clinic Obs/Gynaes rarely have ER admission privileges because for that you require working in a hospital’s A&E. Don’t worry, dermatology clinics don’t have them either.
It’s designed to ban abortion via the back door.
A colonoscopy is not an abortion, the two procedures aren’t the same.
And if you haven’t guessed the good Senator’s party affiliation? It’s Republican.
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otranreg
March 22, 2013 at 12:30 AM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
This bill is designed to close and reduce the availability of abortions.
And to scare women who’d like to abort even further: ‘what, it could go so bad that I’d need an operation? Fuck that!’
While to most readers the comparison of the two procedures may sound weird or even valid.
Aren’t you a doctor? Everyone knows that both revolve around holes in the naughty area! Proximity equals similarity, and so on!
Carol Lynn
March 22, 2013 at 2:17 AM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
But.. but…. I’ve never heard of a routine colonoscopy being done in a fully equipped trauma center. Everyone I’ve ever had or known of was done in little stand-alone day clinics that specialize in them. What on earth is she talking about?
coragyps
March 22, 2013 at 3:15 AM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
What Carol Lynn said – my colonoscopy was several blocks from the nearest emergency room.
We have a couple of legislators here in Texas that are 1) rational persons and 2) possibly smart-assed enough to introduce some bills to look out for the health and safety of us men, if they could just let the wimmens look after their own concerns for a minute or two. I’d like to see a bill that mandates digital prostrate exams for any legislator proposing any legislation dealing with birth control, abortion, or any other women’s health issues. And, if the legislation is typical Republican dreck like SB 537, the exam must be conducted by a licensed physician with hands at least the size of the average Texas professional basketball player’s hands.
Just for the health of the lege, y’know. And unfunded exams – we loves us some “small government.”
Psychopomp Gecko
March 22, 2013 at 3:51 AM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
I say we change the headline and put the story back out there.
“Republican Senator Equates Babies to Shit”
Also, thank you for the line, in this post mentioning colonoscopies: “It’s designed to ban abortion via the back door.”
Man, I wouldn’t want the kind of doctors leaving a man’s butt bleeding from a colonoscopy to be handling a woman’s uterus. That’s just begging to screw something up.
Avicenna
March 22, 2013 at 3:54 AM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
It’s actually very easy to cause a rectal bleed. It’s why colonoscopies are saved for serious conditions. The lining of the intestine isn’t really processing rigid objects.