Trap laws require clinics to be within X distance of a hospital, or have a physician with admitting privileges at a hospital within X miles (note, my orthopedic surgeon didn't have that and I could just as easily have died due to an error of his as a botched abortion. If you have to go to an ER for a medical problem, the ER doc will admit you). One of the new tricks is requiring their clinic buildings to be built to a different code then other medical providers. One such: requiring janitorial closets in every procedure room. Again, a law that -only- applied to abortion clinics.
None of these laws actually have anything to do with the woman's health, just with restricting access.
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Date: 2014-07-15 09:42 pm (UTC)Trap laws require clinics to be within X distance of a hospital, or have a physician with admitting privileges at a hospital within X miles (note, my orthopedic surgeon didn't have that and I could just as easily have died due to an error of his as a botched abortion. If you have to go to an ER for a medical problem, the ER doc will admit you). One of the new tricks is requiring their clinic buildings to be built to a different code then other medical providers. One such: requiring janitorial closets in every procedure room. Again, a law that -only- applied to abortion clinics.
None of these laws actually have anything to do with the woman's health, just with restricting access.