I thought pro-aborts didn’t want back-alley, coat-hanger abortions

There's no way to make abortion safe for the baby, of course, but it's been a major talking point of pro-aborts ever since Roe v. Wade in 1973 - that if abortion isn't legal that you will merely drive women to unsafe, back-alley, coat-hanger abortions. In other words, real Gosnell-type stuff.

So if that's really their concern, you'd think they would welcome the imposition of safety and quality standards on abortion clinics. But in order to think that, you'd have to assume they mean anything they say, as opposed to just tossing out rhetoric designed to prevent anything that lessens access to abortion in the slightest way. Try to impose any standard that even a single clinic might fail to meet, and you find out what their real priorities are. It was obvious in Texas, and now the same thing is happening in North Carolina. The Fayetteville Observer:

Abortion providers and anti-abortion activists across North Carolina are waiting to see whether state regulations to be written in the next year will force any of the state's 16 clinics that perform abortions to close. "They could do anything," said Paige Johnson, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina. "The quickest way to shut down access to safe and legal abortion is to impose these standards across the board."

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Planned Parenthood, which operates one of two health centers that offer abortions in Fayetteville, opposed a law passed this summer that directs the Department of Health and Human Services to make new rules for the clinics. The law authorizes the department to hold abortion providers to any of the same standards imposed on ambulatory surgical centers "while not unduly restricting access" to abortion. Ambulatory surgical centers perform procedures that have more risk than abortion, so their facilities are more tightly regulated, Johnson said.

Remember, this is the same exact requirement that cause pro-aborts to go nuts in Texas, prompting the big exciting filibuster from State Sen. Wendy Davis - who has since become a national media hero - and inspiring pro-abort demonstrators to shout "Hail Satan". All the Texas law does, and all the North Carolina law will do, is force abortion clinics to meet the same safety standards as ambulatory care centers. If pro-aborts really meant what they said about keeping abortion "safe" (other than for the baby, obviously), then you'd think they'd be the first people to support these laws. But they don't mean it, which is why they don't support it. So the next time a pro-abort insists that abortion must be kept legal so it will be safe, and that if it's banned you will see women driven to back-alley abortions, remember, Kermit Gosnell was essentially performing back-alley abortions, and all they cared about was that it might make the abortion industry in general look bad. And remember, Texas and North Carolina are passing laws to make sure abortion clinics are not performing back-alley abortions, and the pro-aborts are going nuts. Conclusion: They only yammer on about keeping abortion safe as a rhetorical tactic to oppose any and all restrictions on abortion. Try to actually impose a safety measure and you'll find out it's not really their priority at all.