I’d forgotten about this little incident of an appalling nature:
[Missouri’s] health director, Randall Williams, drew widespread condemnation when he said at an administrative hearing in October that his agency tracked the menstrual cycles of the clinic’s patients, with the aim of identifying those who had failed abortions. Williams said he attempted to use that data to determine whether women who went in for follow-up appointments after abortions suffered complications. He said his goal was protecting patient safety. But critics called it an invasion of women’s privacy and demanded his resignation and an investigation by the governor. [WaPo]
Or the FBI. Embedded in an article concerning the survival of Missouri’s only remaining abortion providing clinic, Planned Parenthood in St. Louis, it’s certainly the sort of action that would be taken by a autocratic theocracy, seeking to keep every citizen’s actions in sync with the arbitrary religious tenets that it happens to worship under. It’s not the sort of thing that any self-respecting American political party, claiming to love liberty, would advance as a policy proposal.
It’s ludicrous. Williams should be imprisoned for stalking and as a general menace to the public.
Since I’m looking at this article, I also have to admit I started laughing at March for Life’s statement:
“It is a sad day when the health and safety of women is sacrificed in the name of abortion access,” Jeanne Mancini, president of March for Life, said in a statement. “Planned Parenthood of St. Louis, the last abortion business in Missouri, demonstrated consistently that they value profits above the health and safety of women. Their numerous deficiencies, which Planned Parenthood refused to correct when given the opportunity, merited closure. The women of Missouri deserve better.”
So, President Mancini, since you just admitted, by implication, that abortion procedures are, in fact, a valid choice for American women, and you think Planned Parenthood isn’t doing it properly, how about you tell us you’d go about it that’s better? No, you can’t say “adoption” or, for that matter, the intellectually inferior “baby-killers!” Remember, you just admitted that it’s a valid choice. So please tell us how you would provide abortions better than Planned Parenthood.
