Close to 25 abortion rights activists assembled on Saturday
outside of the entrance to the Virginia Department of Health on Governor Street
to protest regulations that could be approved on June 15th by the
department’s Board of Health, a 15-member panel of consumers and health
professionals.
According to Molly Taylor Vick, spokesperson for the
abortion rights activists, the vote constitutes another step in an approval
process required to produce permanent regulations that require abortion clinics
and larger medical facilities to adhere to the same standards, among other
things.[1]
So-called abortion clinics offer a host of services that
uninsured women particularly rely upon including cancer screenings, yearly
exams, testing for sexually transmitted diseases, and breast exams and
treatment.
This time, the peaceful protesters were not met by a
frightening visual of Capitol Police and buses to haul the protesters off to
jail with.[2]
The peaceful protest went as peaceful protests are supposed to go, peacefully.
Abortion rights is an issue about respecting the bodies and
individual rights of women, plain and simple. To those conservatives who
trumpet abortion rights as a moral issue of respecting life, then one would
think that these same individuals would also oppose the death penalty, but this
isn’t always the case.[3]
As with so many other issues, conservatives accuse their
opponents of picking winners and losers while themselves undertaking that very
activity.
Progressives and liberals agree that human life is well
worth respecting, in particular the life of the woman whose life could be
radically and negatively changed if an abortion were not allowed. It is a
question then of whose life is worth protecting more: an embryo or a fully
cognizant woman.
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