Sharonville abortion clinic fights back (Cincinnati)

[theHandpuppet]

'Bout damn time! This article illustrates just how many ridiculous legal obstacles the anti-choice extremists are creating in order to keep women from obtaining their legal rights to abortion -- at times even circumventing the rules they created themselves if moving the goalposts is required.

Today's reminder: Support NARAL and Planned Parenthood. The anti-choice forces are well-funded and we need to have the resources to fight back!

The Cincinnati Enquirer
Sharonville abortion clinic fights back
Kimball Perry, [e-mail]
August 12, 2014

The decision to try to close the Sharonville clinic that performs abortions was "unreasonable" and "politically motivated," its attorneys argued in a Tuesday court document, so the clinic should be allowed to stay open.

"They certainly are taking action to protect their rights," attorney Dorothea Langsam, representing the Lebanon Road Surgery Center, said of her client...

...Three Ohio clinics closed last year, one because of new state regulations. Two more – Women's Med in Sharonville and a Toledo clinic – are fighting court battles against the health department's order to close. Two others – Planned Parenthood in Mount Auburn and another Women's Med clinic in Dayton – have requested the health department grant them reprieves from the transfer-agreement rule. .

If the Cincinnati-area clinics closed, the region – including Northern Kentucky and Southeast Indiana – would become the largest metropolitan area in the country without an abortion clinic, according to an Enquirer analysis....

MORE at http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2014/08/12/sharonville-abortion-clinic-fights-back/13971331/

[CincyDem]

1. Significant for two reasons

Aside from the importance of the court case, what hits me about this is the tone of the article in the Enquirer, a traditionally conservative voice in the community. The fact that they are allowing reporters to pursue this kind of story and then report it in this way...that's significant.

For those of you who don't see the Enquirer every day, it's probably not that big a deal and you're saying "WTF, it's just a news report", you have to consider this is a paper that borders of open adoration of Mike DeWine (State AG) and John Kasich. These guys walk on water if you ask the Enquirer editorial board.

They could have easily ignored the fact that Cincinnati will become the nation's largest "choice desert" but they didn't. To me, that's important.

[theHandpuppet]

2. Totally agree

The Enquirer has always been a notoriously RW paper and to even see an article such as this is a surprise. Maybe they're actually finding an honest-to-God journalistic voice that doesn't belong to the GOP and local Archdiocese.