In a somewhat surprising editorial in the New Jersey Star Ledger, there is a strong call for government to intervene in the health crisis uncovered by the state's dirty abortion mills.In Englewood, an abortion clinic was shut down by the state after a lawsuit resulted in a state inspection revealing substandard conditions that posed "a risk of serious harm to patients." Alternatives, an abortion clinic in Atlantic City, was closed this summer when the state discovered infection control problems and shoddy recordkeeping.
It would be bad enough if these were exceptions, but they are -- disgracefully -- the rule. Five of the six abortion clinics licensed to operate in New Jersey are overdue for inspection. Even though the law requires inspections every other year, some clinics have not had an inspection in seven years. Such lax oversight is simply unacceptable. Whatever one's position on abortion, the clinics remain legal. They should also be safe.
[Meaning, they should be safe for at least one of the patients.]
It took a near-tragedy to uncover the state's failure. Newark Beth Israel Hospital notified the state that Metropolitan Medical Associates of Englewood performed a botched abortion on a 20-year-old; she required a hysterectomy and nearly died. When the state inspected, it found appalling conditions and shut down the clinic, which only recently has reopened.
The Atlantic City clinic remains closed. Both clinics had gone five years without an inspection. Planned Parenthood of Central New Jersey in Shrewsbury hasn't been inspected in seven years...
The word "botch" means to spoil by poor work or to mend or patch in a clumsy manner. In current usage it is probably used to describe abortion more than any other thing. And it certainly is applicable. After all, abortionists regularly "botch" their patients through hurried operations, unskilled techniques, unclean procedures of the kind decried in this editorial, and a decided lack of consideration for the risks they are effecting on the woman's future health.And abortion itself. By its very nature, abortion is a "botch" -- an extremely unnatural and violent action which no sound medical prognosis necessitates. Abortion is a clumsy patch for pregnancy, indeed.
But there's one more irony to consider.
There is a cold horror denied when society considers the only bad abortion to be a "botched" one. For at least one innocent preborn baby has been brutally murdered with each "successful" abortion. No, the abortion that is not botched remains a tragic, evil thing as well and we should never let semantics disguise that sad fact.
