Reply #35: Most hospitals are for profit - clinics are more cost effective for many outpatient procedures . [View All]

[ehrnst]

I beg to differ - I was never able to get an affordable GYN exam from a provider in a hospital, but I was at a Planned Parenthood clinic. You cannot tell me that a hospital would have given them space that was as affordable as the strip mall that they were in.

My OB's office where I got my prenatal exams was near a hospital, but not in it.

Oral surgery, dermatological surgery, lasik, - they are done at facilities separate from hospitals. There are even freestanding birthing centers. I don't see a "ghettoization" of Dentists and dermatologists and optometrists. Many abortion providers are in these outpatient medical centers along with these other medical providers.

When seeking out a medical provider for a specific, specialize procedure, you are told to seek out an experienced provider who does this procedure as often as possible - ideally one that does nothing but this procedure.

Why should gynecologists be forced to rent incredibly limited, and therefore expensive space in a hospital for outpatient procedures that are no more risky than having a tooth pulled under anesthesia?? This is what PL lawmakers want. It limits access and the number of locations where a woman can go for an abortion.

It is not the job of law enforcement to stand guard at the entrances to medical facilities. They need to be investigating these wingnuts and haul them away when they violate FACE or are seen vandalizing clinics - like Roeder was.