Another Lie from Christian Life Resources

Quote from an article on today's Christian Life Resources (CLR) website: "On Friday, a judge in Wisconsin issued an injunction blocking part of a pro-life law designed to protect the health and safety of women considering abortions."  This statement is a lie.  The law is not "designed" to protect women.  It is designed to prevent a woman from exercising her constitutional right to an abortion.  CLR may regard that as a worthy goal, but then they should say so instead of lying about it.

Indeed, as another source noted:

[...]Quite simply, it does not matter whether an abortion provider has admitting privileges for a local hospital.

For all of Wisconsin’s claims, therefore, that these regulations are “reasonably related to ‘the preservation and protection of maternal health,’” it seems clear that is not the case. Indeed, as the court pointed out, the legislative history of Act 37 revealed no medical expert speaking in its favor, or articulating a legitimate medical reason for the admitting privileges requirement.

In response to the evidence submitted to the court that the admitting privilege restrictions serve no purpose in advancing maternal health, Wisconsin admitted that serious complications rarely result from a pre-viability abortion. Nevertheless, Wisconsin argued that the requirement for admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the location of the abortion would reduce risk to the patient. But Judge Conley wasn’t buying it. He wrote, “Aside from the claimed need for ‘continuity of care,’ counsel was unable to offer any support for this position, which does not bear even superficial scrutiny on the current record.”

Judge Conley seems to understand what pro-choice advocates know to be true: The real purpose of the law—like similar pending legislation in Alabama, Mississippi, and North Dakota—is not to protect maternal health, but to prevent women from exercising their constitutional right to choose an abortion, through forced closure of the clinics subject to targeted regulation of abortion provider (TRAP) laws, by making it virtually impossible to do so.

Quite simply, the first sentence in this CLR article is a lie.