Every day, the tide goes in, the tide goes out… odd stories come in, odd stories come out. Honestly, this job can sometimes be depressing.
An Alabama lawmaker pushing a bill to limit access to abortion facilities in the state has claimed the nature of the procedure should require stringent regulations, because it involves removing the “largest organ” from a woman’s body.
“When a physician removes a child from a woman, that is the largest organ in a body,” state Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin, R-Pelham, recently told the Montgomery Adviser, explaining why her bill is necessary. “That’s a big thing. That’s a big surgery. You don’t have any other organs in your body that are bigger than that.
I attended biology class in eighth grade. Evidently McClurkin missed those classes.
The Alabama House of Representatives is expected to take up the abortion legislation, known as HB 57, on Tuesday. The bill would require physicians at the state’s five remaining abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at local hospitals, require clinics to follow ambulatory building codes and make it a felony for a nurse, nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant to dispense abortion-inducing medications.
Just how dangerous are abortion procedures?
Approximately 12 women in the United States died from complications resulting from abortions in 2009, when about 784,507 of those procedures were performed, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Sigh.
