Because abortionists care. (Of course I'm being sarcastic!)

The only thing abortionists care about is money in their pockets. The following is just one example (via GrannyGrump at Real Choice):

Angela Hall, a 27-year-old mother of five, called to arrange an abortion at Dr. Thomas Tucker's office in Alabama. One of Tucker's employees, Joy Davis, screened Angela and felt that she had risk factors that made abortion in an office setting unsafe. Joy got on the phone with Tucker and indicated that she felt that Angela should be referred to a hospital. Tucker told Davis that "we need the money" and ordered her to prep Angela, who was in the second trimester of pregnancy.

Angela underwent the abortion on June 11, 1991, and started having difficulty breathing. Her blood pressure fell, setting off an alarm on a piece of monitoring equipment. Tucker told Davis to turn the alarm off because other patients could hear it. Angela was sent to a recovery room where she bled so heavily that Davis became alarmed and called an ambulance. Tucker swore at Davis when he learned of this, and he had her cancel the ambulance because they'd already sent a patient to the hospital that day. Angela continued to hemorrhage, and Davis continued to plead with Tucker to take action. Finally Tucker cursed at Davis, telling her to call the ambulance, and he left the building, leaving the untrained woman to cope alone with the critically injured patient.

Angela was taken to the hospital, where she suffered respiratory failure, clotting, and sepsis. She died just before midnight June 14. The autopsy found numerous tears and lesions in the pelvic area, and congestive necrosis in Angela's liver and spleen. The doctors concluded that an amniotic fluid embolism had caused clotting problems resulting in necrosis, septic shock, and cardiac arrest. When Alabama authorities subpoenaed Angela's records, Tucker ordered Davis to destroy some and falsify others. Davis tore up the records, but then taped them back together and provided the authorities with photocopies.

Joy Davis' actions -- trying to convince Tucker to refer Angela to a hospital, her attempts to get appropriate care for Angela, and her refusal to participate in the cover-up -- need to stand as a reminder that abortion workers aren't monsters. They're human beings, many of whom do care about the patients and think of themselves as helping them.

Nah, they don't need to be regulated. They don't need oversight. Because, you know, they regulate themselves. After all, they're just concerned about a woman's reproductive health. They want to keep abortion legal, and rare and safe.

UPDATE: Allow me to make this one point, lest I seem like I'm condemning the people who work at these clinics as receptionists, and assistants. Many of them do indeed care about the women who come into their centers, just like Joy Davis did. Unfortunately, most of the abortionists couldn't care less, and are willing to let a woman suffer, bleed, and die rather than face any accountability (ala Thomas Tucker).

"Nurse, would you move Mr. Smith into the Death Wing? Thanks!"

This article comes from The Discovery Institute. Anytime you hear liberals spouting some crazy ideas, and you think to yourself, "But won't that lead to...?" and they say, "No! You're just being a reactionary, knee-jerk neocon!" Remember this article:

What if hospitals could put a sign over their doors stating, “We reserve the right to refuse life-sustaining care?” People would be outraged. Yet that is precisely what Texas law explicitly grants to hospitals — namely, to say no to wanted life-sustaining treatment, on the basis of subjective judgments about the quality of the patient’s life. It is an example of a bioethical concept known as Futile Care Theory, a.k.a. medical futility.

How did Texas, of all places, become ground zero for futile-care impositions? Back in 1996, a group of Houston hospitals adopted internal administrative protocols, called the Collaborative Policy, in which they granted themselves the right to refuse life-sustaining treatment even to a patient who still wants it. As described in the August 21, 1996, Journal of the American Medical Association (“A Multi-institutional Collaborative Policy on Medical Futility”), if a doctor wished to refuse treatment, but a patient or family wanted it, the dispute was to be adjudicated behind closed doors by an institutional ethics committee; the patient/family would be given three days’ notice of the meeting. If the committee members decided that the patient should not continue to receive life-sustaining treatment, such treatment could then be cut off immediately, with only comfort care rendered thereafter.

Needless to say, the Collaborative Policy was controversial, and legislation was soon introduced in the Texas legislature to thwart the Houston hospitals’ futile-care scheme. Unfortunately, lawmakers were divided on the issue. Eventually a compromise was worked out, giving families ten days to find an alternative institution to provide care once a hospital ethics committee ruled that treatment for a patient should be terminated. Governor George W. Bush eventually signed the bill into law in 1999 after right to life groups agreed to the compromise, never dreaming that patient transfers would become almost impossible to secure.

Does the name Jack Kevorkian ring a bell? Making assisted suicide legal wasn't going to lead to hospitals deciding who lives and who dies. This wasn't going to lead to widespread euthanasia. Well, not only was that a lie, but it is already coming into form. And how ironic that a week after this is posted, Dr. Death will be released from prison.

But what will her "quality of life" be?

Yeah, so this woman survived a crash.

Shannon Malloy was critically injured Jan. 25 when a car crash slammed her into the dashboard. Her skull separated from her spine, although her skin, spinal cord and other internal organs remained intact.

The rare condition is known as clinically as internal decapitation, and it left her with no control over her head.

Her injuries left Malloy with nerve damage that made her eyes cross, and she has difficulty swallowing. She was not paralyzed. She told her story to Denver station KMGH-TV.

But look at her. She has this huge neck brace, her eyes are crossed, she's going to have to go through years of rehab, she can hardly talk. Why not do the humane thing and just get rid of her?

OF COURSE I'm being sarcastic. The above paragraph is what those on the left would have you believe. You know, those loving people that think that if one's "quality of life" is not what THEY think it should be, then the person ought to be put to sleep like a dog. But, no, that's not what they're aiming for. That's not why they are so militant about keeping abortion legal (but not safe). That's not why they're pushing for euthanasia laws. Nah, can't be.

What is Planned Parenthood so afraid of?

A few days ago I posted about how Planned Parenthood was caught telling a girl posing as a 15-year old to fake her age so that (1) she could get and abortion, (2) her "boyfriend" wouldn't have to go to jail, and (3) the abortionist could get some more money in his pocket. Well, apparently Planned Parenthood doesn't cotton too well to being PWN3D. According to the Christian Post:

Planned Parenthood, the leading provider of surgical abortions, has threatened to file a lawsuit against an 18-year-old student journalist at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Lilia Rose, who is the student editor and founder of the student pro-life magazine The Advocate, was contacted by the pro-choice organization after she recorded herself going into a clinic in Santa Monica, Calif., posing as a 15-year-old pregnant girl. She went in for an “abortion” with a man named James O’Keefe, who acted as her 23-year-old boyfriend, which would be considered statutory rape.

The tapes reveal that she was advised by employees to invent a birthday, so she did not appear to be 15, making her situation legal. A letter from Planned Parenthood expressed to her that she had no right to tape the incident, and that she did so without their consent.

You know what the irony is here? That Planned Parenthood doesn't think that minors should have to get consent from their parents before they enter into a butcher shop abortion clinic. But, when it comes to exposing Planned Parenthood for the monsters they are, then consent is everything.

The Post goes on to mention:

According to Rose, Planned Parenthood has had numerous incidences in the past.

One such example occurred when Life Dynamics, a Texas-based non-profit organization, hired an actress to make approximately 800 phone calls to abortion facilities across several states, acting as a 13-year-old girl. (Watch the video) She described herself as a victim of sexual assault, but 91 percent of the locations that admitted the action was a crime agreed to conceal it.

And yet none of these places is prosecuted. None of these places is investigated by any governmental agency. Women die every day from abortions. Many more are harmed for life. Butchers who maim these women simply pack up and move on to a new town, set up shop, and start their butchery all over again. And the government isn't doing a thing about it. That's why the world needs more young people like Lilia Rose, who isn't afraid to take on the Planned Parenthood machine, and expose them for who they are.

Planned Parenthood is scared. They and their like are going down the tubes, Roe v. Wade is coming ever so much closer to being overturned, and abortionists are fixin' to see their businesses crash and burn in a fiery heap. And they're scared. And they should be.