Government Regulates Everything Except Abortion

There isn't much that liberals don't want to regulate. There is even a federal government website devoted to expounding upon the myriad regulations imposed on society, with links to regs on benefits, business, defense, education and jobs, environment, energy, agriculture, family, community, health, safety, money, taxes, law, volunteerism, travel, recreation, and voting. The ADA guidelines by themselves are better than 300 pages, governing, among other things, the widths of corridors and doors.

Not to be outdone, the Commonwealth of Virginia has a similar website devoted to state regulations. There are Virginia Boards of Audiology, Certified Seed (?), Counseling, Dentistry, Funeral Directors and Embalmers, Health Professions, Medicine, Motor Vehicle Dealers, Nursing, Nursing Home Adminstrators, Optometry, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Psychology, Social Work, and Veterinary Medicine. And those are just the Boards, nevermind the Departments, Commissions, and Auditors. Heck, there's a State Milk Commission. These people have their hands in the middle of everything. Everything except one. So far.

By an overwhelming vote of 69-28, the House of Delegates gave final approval to HB2784, which would require abortion clinics to meet the standards of ambulatory surgical centers. Those standards dictate the width of halls and doorways, the size of operating rooms and the like.

In the grand scheme of government regulations, that one seems relatively benign. Healthcare providers routinely submit to an array of government oversight and regulation far greater than most, right? It is, after all, in the name of "public health," right? Wrong. At least not for the pro-abortion crowd:

Critics say it is a transparent effort by foes of abortion to make the procedure less affordable and accessible.
They say 17 of the 20 abortion clinics in Virginia would be forced to close or spend millions of dollars to upgrade their facilities.

So, while the rest of the nation is widening doorways, installing grab bars, flattening hills, building ramps and otherwise "upgrading facilities" to satisfy a growing panoply of regulations designed to improve "access," somehow it is a burden too great to bear to ask an abortion clinic to match the standards of one performing carpal tunnel procedures. And when did forcing people to spend millions of dollars making their business more accessible finally become a problem for the abortion rights crowd? When it meant closing an abortion clinic for a month and cutting into the profits. Gotta keep that operation with the 30-inch wide door behind the sandwhich shop up and running 24-7.