Post by Logan on Mar 19, 2016 23:43:27 GMT -6
No one who heard Gov. Matt Bevin’s lawyer make his case for closing one of the state’s two remaining abortion clinics can doubt that Fayette Circuit Judge Ernesto Scorsone ruled correctly by allowing the EMW Women’s Clinic to stay open:
▪ Bevin’s lawyer presented no evidence of harm to patients during EMW’s 26 years in Lexington.
▪ EMW has filed the monthly statistical reports required by the state, so there’s been no attempt to hide or mislead.
▪ Testimony from administration witnesses made it clear that EMW was singled out for extraordinarily harsh treatment. Other health-care providers would have been given a chance to contest citations administratively and correct problems. In 2006 when Republican Ernie Fletcher was governor, a state review of the issues raised by Bevin triggered no action against the clinic.
“In addition to the evidence indicating that EMW is operating legally and in conformity with the most important regulations of a licensed abortion facility,” Scorsone ruled that closing the clinic would be against the public interest.
Read more here: www.kentucky.com/opinion/editorials/article66984547.html
▪ Bevin’s lawyer presented no evidence of harm to patients during EMW’s 26 years in Lexington.
▪ EMW has filed the monthly statistical reports required by the state, so there’s been no attempt to hide or mislead.
▪ Testimony from administration witnesses made it clear that EMW was singled out for extraordinarily harsh treatment. Other health-care providers would have been given a chance to contest citations administratively and correct problems. In 2006 when Republican Ernie Fletcher was governor, a state review of the issues raised by Bevin triggered no action against the clinic.
“In addition to the evidence indicating that EMW is operating legally and in conformity with the most important regulations of a licensed abortion facility,” Scorsone ruled that closing the clinic would be against the public interest.
Read more here: www.kentucky.com/opinion/editorials/article66984547.html