http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/10...abort.html

A federal judge blocked two laws today that would have restricted abortions in Alabama, including one that would prevent clinics from operating within 2,000 feet of public schools.

The other law would ban dilation and evacuation abortions, which are commonly performed in the second trimester.

The law banning abortion clinics within 2,000 feet of K-8 public schools would have shut facilities in Huntsville and Tuscaloosa. Those two clinics performed more than half the abortions in Alabama in 2014, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health.

The location ban is unique to Alabama, but bans on dilation and evacuation have been passed in other states. They have also been blocked by judges in Kansas and Oklahoma.

I've never really understood this fascination with not allowing something within X yards of Y. Something is bad if it's 1,999ft away but OK if it's 2,001ft away?

(10-28-2016 11:17 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  I've never really understood this fascination with not allowing something within X yards of Y. Something is bad if it's 1,999ft away but OK if it's 2,001ft away?

got to draw the line somewhere I guess.

Hey! Those kids can now go get an abortion during recess or lunch time. That's GREAT!

This was an obvious attempt by the Alabama GOP to create a law specifically designed to shut down a Huntsville Family Planning Clinic that just spent a million dollars to comply with other regulations.

Such a shame.

why. you only support targeted regulations when the goal is to shut down someone you don't like?

Glad it got blocked.

Abortion is barbaric but this law is big government.

(10-28-2016 12:55 PM)HarmonOliphantOberlanderDevine Wrote:  Glad it got blocked.

Abortion is barbaric but this law is big government.

wow. you have actually surprised me for once.

(10-28-2016 12:56 PM)john01992 Wrote:  

(10-28-2016 12:55 PM)HarmonOliphantOberlanderDevine Wrote:  Glad it got blocked.

Abortion is barbaric but this law is big government.

wow. you have actually surprised me for once.

I try to be consistent. I can't stand arbitrary laws like this especially when power like that can turned against anything.

(10-28-2016 12:52 PM)john01992 Wrote:  why. you only support targeted regulations when the goal is to shut down someone you don't like?

At absolute best, abortion is a questionable practice that raises many issues and potential questions that parents may not want their young school age children exposed to by an abortion clinic operating in close proximity to a school. I can fully support a ban on abortion clinics located near primary schools for that reason.

Abortion is murder. Dilation and evacuation is a nice sounding way to say "stretch her open and rip the baby limb from limb". It's immoral and barbaric.

lol your post is nothing but BS.

(10-28-2016 11:18 AM)john01992 Wrote:  

(10-28-2016 11:17 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  I've never really understood this fascination with not allowing something within X yards of Y. Something is bad if it's 1,999ft away but OK if it's 2,001ft away?

got to draw the line somewhere I guess.

A red line?

(10-28-2016 01:05 PM)john01992 Wrote:  lol your post is nothing but BS.

I suppose facts and common sense seem like bull**** to someone that considers abortion less than murder. What a morally repugnant position to stake.

(10-28-2016 01:25 PM)200yrs2late Wrote:  

(10-28-2016 01:05 PM)john01992 Wrote:  lol your post is nothing but BS.

I suppose facts and common sense seem like bull**** to someone that considers abortion less than murder. What a morally repugnant position to stake.

common sense? if I somehow got HOOD on my side in an abortion thread I think it's pretty clear the law is BS.

(10-28-2016 12:55 PM)HarmonOliphantOberlanderDevine Wrote:  Glad it got blocked.

Abortion is barbaric but this law is big government.

Agreed HOOD.. would I want _abortion_ clinics closed ? Yep.. but gotta do it the right way.

(10-28-2016 01:26 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  

(10-28-2016 12:55 PM)HarmonOliphantOberlanderDevine Wrote:  Glad it got blocked.

Abortion is barbaric but this law is big government.

Agreed HOOD.. would I want _abortion_ clinics closed ? Yep.. but gotta do it the right way.

what is the right way? just curious?

To start with, no federal funding... if they want to operate (no pun intended btw), let them operate on what the market will let them operate on. . Eventually overturn RvW by law.

(10-28-2016 01:26 PM)john01992 Wrote:  

(10-28-2016 01:25 PM)200yrs2late Wrote:  

(10-28-2016 01:05 PM)john01992 Wrote:  lol your post is nothing but BS.

I suppose facts and common sense seem like bull**** to someone that considers abortion less than murder. What a morally repugnant position to stake.

common sense? if I somehow got HOOD on my side in an abortion thread I think it's pretty clear the law is BS.

There are a wide number of businesses not allowed within 2000 feet of schools.

(10-28-2016 01:31 PM)200yrs2late Wrote:  

(10-28-2016 01:26 PM)john01992 Wrote:  

(10-28-2016 01:25 PM)200yrs2late Wrote:  

(10-28-2016 01:05 PM)john01992 Wrote:  lol your post is nothing but BS.

I suppose facts and common sense seem like bull**** to someone that considers abortion less than murder. What a morally repugnant position to stake.

common sense? if I somehow got HOOD on my side in an abortion thread I think it's pretty clear the law is BS.

There are a wide number of businesses not allowed within 2000 feet of schools.

remember that texas plant explosion that leveled a school nearby? THAT'S why they can't operate near schools.