Vanderburgh Co. (Evansville, Ind.) keeps abortion restrictions

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

The Vanderburgh County commissioners are standing behind their decision to approve an abortion-related ordinance despite criticism about a vote on it two weeks ago without any public input.

The ordinance requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at local hospitals -- a provision abortion providers say would restrict women's access to the procedure.

The commissioners unanimously approved the measure Aug. 5 in about 45 seconds after the ordinance's first and final reading. The word "abortion" was never mentioned, except on the agenda, but abortion-rights advocates and reporters later learned of its nature.

... Abortion foes are seeking a similar ordinance in Allen County, where one of Indiana's nine abortion clinics is in Fort Wayne. Backers of the measure say that while Vanderburgh County does not have any abortion clinics, the ordinance will make it more difficult for one to open in or near Evansville, the state's third-largest city.

Read more: http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080820/NEWS/808200438

[Triana]

1. The American Taliban strikes again...n/t

[skooooo]

2. Big surprise..that's southern Indiana for you.

[HuffleClaw]

3. "a vote on it two weeks ago without any public input"

which really says it all.

- and now this county will fight an ultimately losing court battle, spending hundreds of thousands of PUBLIC dollars to please a wee minority of misogynist religious nutters. and next year they'll decide to slash funding for such 'dangerous' things like their local libraries and arts centre. a pretty clever plan really. sinister, but clever.