{"id":28071,"date":"2020-03-23T16:53:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T21:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=28071"},"modified":"2020-03-23T16:53:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T21:53:15","slug":"todays-tragedy-tomorrows-politics-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/03\/23\/todays-tragedy-tomorrows-politics-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Tragedy, Tomorrow\u2019s Politics, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was amused to run across someone screaming about the left weaponizing the COVID-19 pandemic, as if he’d never had a civics lesson in his life. Then I ran across this story from the weekend, which rather drives the hypocrisy of the entire debate right in to the nines:<\/p>\n

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Ohio\u2019s attorney general has ordered clinics to halt many abortions under a new statewide measure to conserve health-care resources amid the\u00a0coronavirus<\/a>\u00a0pandemic, going against the urgings of many medical professionals.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Officials in Washington state and Massachusetts have clarified that similar orders pausing elective surgeries do not apply to abortions, and several national medical associations earlier this week advised against canceling or delaying the procedures \u2014 a key part of \u201ccomprehensive health care,\u201d they said \u2014 because of the coronavirus outbreak. But Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) on Friday and Saturday ordered several facilities, about which he said the Health Department has received complaints, to stop their \u201cnonessential\u201d abortions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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As clinics say they will proceed undeterred, the fight over what constitutes essential care in Ohio could be the first of many as more states heed the U.S. government\u2019s calls for hospitals to suspend unneeded operations and as doctors and nurses warn they\u2019re running out of masks, gowns and drugs.\u00a0[WaPo<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What, are there so many abortions in Ohio that their use of medical supplies is draining Ohio hospitals of critical supplies?<\/p>\n

No, abortions may be optional to those who don’t want them, but for those who want them, they’re a need.<\/p>\n

Weaponization, indeed.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was amused to run across someone screaming about the left weaponizing the COVID-19 pandemic, as if he’d never had a civics lesson in his life. Then I ran across this story from the weekend, which rather drives the hypocrisy of the entire debate right in to the nines: Ohio\u2019s \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28072,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28071\/revisions\/28072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}