From "Architects Are Getting Ready for an Abortion-Clinic Building Spike" (NY Magazine).
July 13, 2022
"Before Roe was overturned, architecture became an effective tool to limit abortion access, as states used regulatory codes — like zoning and building codes..."
"... to make it extremely difficult to operate. Known as Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers, TRAP laws included Texas’s HB 2, a 2013 law that required abortion clinics to meet the same requirements as ambulatory-surgery centers, which included a lower staff-to-patient ratio; larger exam rooms, hallways, and doorways; having a room dedicated to operations; and complex HVAC systems. In just three years after HB 2 was passed, Texas went from 40 to 16 clinics. Abortions doubled in neighboring states.... There are over 70 architects from 16 states currently on the growing list of those willing to help expand or build new clinics. The list will not be publicly published, and will be shared only with clinics that are looking for architectural services, as a way to protect the architects’ and clinics’ privacy and help guard against retaliation...."
From "Architects Are Getting Ready for an Abortion-Clinic Building Spike" (NY Magazine).
From "Architects Are Getting Ready for an Abortion-Clinic Building Spike" (NY Magazine).
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A classic one movie, two views.
Texas’s HB 2, a 2013 law that required abortion clinics to meet the same requirements as ambulatory-surgery centers
Why that sounds just awful.... but isn't an abortion an operation? Doesn't that play into the "Safe" part of Safe and rare?
Haven't there been cases *cough - Gosnell - cough* where standards were abysmal and results were horrifying?
Are there not states where they are loath to even review abortion clinics because of political fall out?
Sheesh, next thing you know they'll limit the use of wire hangers.
I wonder if the author realizes the article makes the case for Dobbs. It is near impossible for a Supreme Court to simply remove an issue thst people care about from public debate. We are are a self governing people by and large and will find ways to self govern. After Dobbs, it will be more democratic. Rather than resorting to zoning laws, legislative bodies can ban, legalize or regulate abortion and face the voters to defend their actions.
Bitter clingers…
Yeah. Sure.
If state legislatures wanted to affect abortion policies, then they had to use such methods.
Now that the state legislatures again can affect abortion policies directly, they will not have to resort to such indirect methods.
"There are over 70 architects from 16 states currently on the growing list of those willing to help expand or build new [abortion] clinics."
Kinda like the train drivers who brought the Jews to the camps,
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51WH2WFXV5L._SY445_.jpg
In the Shoah film some of them were interviewed. They knew they were participants to mass murder.
..."The list will not be publicly published, and will be shared only with clinics that are looking for architectural services, as a way to protect the architects’ and clinics’ privacy and help guard against retaliation...."
Brings to mind a certain dirty trick that involves publicly shaming law firms that take up the legal defense of elected officials in election cases. Makes one wonder how loud the cries of 'unfair!' might be in response. Once the plans have been filed with the municipality, the architects will be known. Past projects can be researched and the answers quickly found.
Sauce for the goose and all that.
Sure there’s 70 architects that wanna build abortion clinics.
Dragging architects into the abortion debate. Maybe they don't have enough work in the Biden economy.
"Architects Are Getting Ready for an Abortion-Clinic Building Spike"
O Joy! Money!
What? Safety regulations decrease supply, maybe cut it off entirely? Why was I not told?
You mean like the building codes for my home? So much insulation required, structural strength requirements, snow load, frost depth requirements? Plumbing, electrical and septic permits? Well water purity tests?
Requiring that abortion surgical centers be safe and antiseptic is just part of human safety regulations. Abortionists can cry a river about how unfair it is to them. Boo Hoo!
"The list will not be publicly published, and will be shared only with clinics that are looking for architectural services, as a way to protect the architects’ and clinics’ privacy and help guard against retaliation...."
So, say, protesting at these architects homes would be beyond the pale? Doxxing is only a weapon that Democrats can use? Is that it?
If what you are doing is a civic good; if what you are doing is moral and completely aboveboard; you do not do that thing in hiding.
That list will get out. Architects and construction companies should think long and hard before signing up to that shindig.
Ask Brett Kavanaugh how effective a mob of angry protestors can be outside your home and offices and the restaurants you eat in.
Going in a slightly different direction, I am wondering to what degree the requirements for ambulatory-surgery centers reflect lobbying from hospitals.
In just three years after HB 2 was passed, Texas went from 40 to 16 clinics.
You mean that expensive government regulatory mandates can choke-off supply?
Who knew?
Now do energy production.
Serious question. If you can compel cake bakers to serve for a gay wedding, can’t you compel an architect to build your abortion facility? Why do you need a special list.
It doesn't seem like a bad thing that this politically- charged medical operation is required to be held to the same medical standards as every other surgery/medical operation.
In fact, this law makes me think- wait, they weren't held to medical cleanliness and operating standards before? That's dangerous and needed to be changed!
From "Architects Are Getting Ready for an Abortion-Clinic Building Spike" (NY Magazine).
But first they have to rebuild those racist roads.
getting ready.
very excited...
Since there can be complications from an abortion, some severe, I would think basic health and safety regulations of any surgical center would apply. Sterilization of equipment and rooms, cleaning processes, admitting privilege of doctors, emergency medical equipment such as defibrillators, hallways/doorways in which a gurney can fit, etc. To say these aren't at clinics, makes them sound sketchy. Would you have a tooth extracted surgically or a colonoscopy from a place that didn't meet these standards?
Putting the "Safe" in safe and rare.
I predict the spike is going to be more like a bump.
Behavioural change is going to drive down the need for abortions.
Yes. The abortion industry and its media hacks have long been militantly against commonsense health and safety regulations to protect women.
In fact, there has never been a single woman who said, "I want a dirty clinic using dirty instruments with my abortion done by some non-doctor day-labor temp they hired off the street."
There are over 70 architects from 16 states currently on the growing list of those willing to...
...bring the back-alley indoors in abortion facilities.
"In fact, this law makes me think- wait, they weren't held to medical cleanliness and operating standards before? That's dangerous and needed to be changed!"
Though the lefties didd their best to sweep him under the rug and out of the public's range of vision enough seeped out about abortionist Kermit Gosnell and his filthy clinics,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosnell:_The_Trial_of_America%27s_Biggest_Serial_Killer
But even in the cleanest, most antiseptic operating rooms abortion is a dirty business.
Because treating a women's health clinic as an actual health clinic is demanding too much.
At this same time in Texas, due to Obamacare passing at the federal level, free standing ERs were popping up all over Texas. These were great money makers off the average patient that used to fill hospital ERs, because they wouldn't get a Primary Care Physician to get cold medicine or referral for a broken bone. Sure, we will take your $100 emergency co-pay to see you right now and write a prescription for OTC cough medicine, because you are required to have health insurance but too dumb to know how to use it. Except sometimes a real emergent acute care patient would walk into the doors of the freestanding ERs with a heart attack in progress and they could only be stabilized until transport to a real hospital for required surgery.
Mike of Snoqualmie said...
Requiring that abortion surgical centers be safe and antiseptic is just part of human safety regulations. Abortionists can cry a river about how unfair it is to them. Boo Hoo!
Kind of ironic when they've spent so much time saying that overturning Roe would result in women dying from back-alley abortions.
In fact, this law makes me think- wait, they weren't held to medical cleanliness and operating standards before? That's dangerous and needed to be changed!
That's why the Gosnell trial was held in secret. It was "only a local story" according to the legacy media.
There is a parallel with onerous gun-ownership regulations in there somewhere.
Take the hate train to your friendly neighborhood abortion chamber, Cecile's clinic, where two human people... persons... entities enter, and one leaves, albeit physically and psychologically scarred. All's fair in lust, taxes, and abortion.
These architects were looking for free advertising and they got it.
Right angles are also racist examples of white patriarchal supremacy.
"Sure there’s 70 architects that wanna build abortion clinics."
He WANTS to be and abortion clinic architect.
I am in the greater Philly area, I actually read the Grand Jury report on Kermit Gosnell. I will never be the same. Even though we had inspection standards in PA, they were never enforced. Gosnell was an open secret for decades. They actually went in the clinic because Gosnell was pushing narcotic pain killers, then cops saw the abortion results in freezers, storage bags, etc. The cops needed counseling. These are hardened Philadelphia Senior detectives. It really was a house of horrors.
In places where it's legal, if abortion is merely a form of "women's healthcare", why don't they just use normal facilities where other medical needs are met? Why build these special, separate buildings?
There are several "ambulatory surgical centers" in my part of Los Angeles. A group of gastroenterologists set up a colonoscopy center in a building that used to house a small grocery store. A building that housed an auto parts store is now a same day surgery center.
Hospitals--and surgery centers--are a good place for someone to get infected. Over the last twenty years I've had four surgeries requiring general anesthesia. Each was performed in a hospital. The staff wants the patient out of there ASAP. I was "out of there" in as little as 8 hours following checking in (for a cochlear implant surgery) 10 hours (for a shattered elbow resetting) and less than 30 hours for another elbow operation, and for pituitary adenoma surgery.
Part of that "get em out of here quick" is driven by insurance requirements, but a good part is driven by the knowledge that hospitals aren't safe for patients. There's no reason why an abortion clinic shouldn't be held to the same safety/cleanliness standards of other surgical centers.
Chairs must have been on sale.
Abortion, to the pro-aborts, has *always* been a floor wax and dessert topping.
That is, it's simultaneously "women's/reproductive health" that should not only be available anywhere at all times and even subsidized, and a minor procedure like lancing a boil, barely worth talking about. Nothing, not even common safeguards required of *barbers* were necessary.
if abortion is merely a form of "women's healthcare", why don't they just use normal facilities where other medical needs are met?
Because decent and most medical professionals want nothing to do with abortionists. They don't want to be around them.
New York Magazine is upset that Kermit Gosnell wouldnt' have gotten away with it for so long in Texas. God forbid medical clinics maintain safety standards.
New York Magazine is upset that Kermit Gosnell wouldnt' have gotten away with it for so long in Texas.
Two enter, one leaves is social progress. Two enter, 1/2 leaves a bad impression of the practice in all but the most liberal circles.
The left embraced retaliation a long time ago. Apparently it never dawned on them that retaliation could come back to hurt them. I can’t wait for the left to insist that the abortion architects must be treated with CIVILITY.
Texas’s HB 2, a 2013 law that required abortion clinics to meet the same requirements as ambulatory-surgery centers, which included a lower staff-to-patient ratio; larger exam rooms, hallways, and doorways; having a room dedicated to operations; and complex HVAC systems.
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so this law would gentrify the back-alleys :
dilemma Q : what to choose === for back alleys or anti gentrification?
Now do daycare centers.
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