MN Governor Vetoes Abortion Inspection Law

Governor Dayton of Minnesota has vetoed a bill passed by the state legislature that would have required that any facility which performs ten or more abortions per month to be licensed by the Minnesota Commissioner of Health and that the annual licensing fee be $3,712. The fee would be used to cover the licensing process and the inspections of the abortion clinics. The clinics could be subject to up to two surprise inspections per year and a clinic could lose its license if it would found to have engaged in fraud, dangerous health practices or illegal activity.

Governor Dayton defended his veto, saying that the language was “inappropriate and unworkable” and that it was unfair to single out abortion clinics. He veto message said that “If regulation of clinics were the concern, the bill should have required licensure of all clinics, not just a select few.” Dayton also complained that a lack of oversight at abortion clinics was “not an issue” in Minnesota and he noted that other state agencies that oversaw building codes, workplace safety, and physician licensure were adequate. Governor Dayton also cited as an insurer of clinic safety the National Abortion Federation, which, he noted: “sets clinical policy for performing abortions.”

Governor Dayton’s reliance on the National Abortion Federation may have been a poor idea. In 2011, the organization was caught in a firestorm when it came to light that its representatives were aware of dreadful conditions at a Philadelphia abortion clinic. The director of that clinic, Kermit Gosnell, is now on trial for the murder of one of the women upon whom abortions were performed and the murder of seven newly born babies (not fetuses.)

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Vladimir

Could he be a liberal, pro-choice, Democrat?
- GRIZZ MANN
  
  The law would only protect woman's health and poor minorities at that. Typical Democrat war on woman's health.
  - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
    
    The law would only protect woman's health vs. Typical Democrat war on woman's health.
    
    Which one is it?
- Evermyrtle
  
  I don't know about the Democrat but he certainly signed up as a liberal with this murderous decision.
am2sweet

Living in MN as we do Dayton is very liberal. He wanted gays to have the right to get married here and have the state recognize it. But there are groups here that made such a big fuss about it that he had to put it out to a vote. The vote hasn't happened yet since it isn't November but at least we got it to a vote rather than Dayton just mandating it as law without our input at all. He reminds me of Obama and dictators.
- daves
  
  Living in MN as I do, the legislature has added a ballot initiative to outlaw same sex marriage. I think Minnesota is going to be the first state in the country to vote down this type of discrimination.
  
  Good for you Governor Dayton!
  - Deep_Thinker
    
    The "gay marriage" debate is only a debate because the government has their hand in marriage. And they shouldn't. It is like them defining baptism. Marriage is of the church and not of the state. Allowing the state to have control of marriage only allows for one group to use the legislature to impose their viewpoints by a simple majority vote.
    
    What is forgotten in all of this is our founders had safeguards in the constitution that curtailed this kind of tyranny. They said we had freedom to do whatever we please, in the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness. Anything not explicitly defined in the constitution, the government was to have no hand in.
    - daves
      
      I agree – there should be no such thing as legally married.
      
      For your second point, the constitution says:
      The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people
      - Deep_Thinker
        
        Very true, and with that I might add that even if the states have the power to pass certain laws, I believe that liberty should still be upheld. I don't believe that this gives the right to the state to pass any law they want that might erode freedom or liberty.
      - Evermyrtle
        
        Whose liberty are you supporting??The babies or the murderers???
      - Deep_Thinker
        
        Like I said, but you must not have understood. Abortion takes away the liberty of a child. Therefore, it should not be allowed.
        
        Liberty does not mean I can do anything I want, it means I can do anything I want as long as it does not cause direct harm to another person.
        
        So the issue with abortion, is, is it a person? If yes, then abortion is illegal.
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        So what if the mother will die without the abortion? Then the fetus is depriving the mothers liberty. It is not as black and white as you try to present it.
      - M Green
        
        Though this is a RARE concern, even the most fundamentalist of pro-life would not ask a mother who is TRULY at risk of dying to carry a baby to term. We do not believe in trading one life for another. Again, this is not the issue.
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        Oklahoma "Personhood" Law Bans Abortion – No Exceptions
        
        Are embryos people from the moment they're conceived? The answer is yes, according to a majority of Oklahoma lawmakers who've just passed a "personhood" bill.
        
        The Oklahoma bill defines embryos as people from the moment of conception, and will make abortions illegal in all circumstances, even in cases of rape or incest.
        http://www.topix.com/forum/us/politics/TBIVKAK9R0…
        
        I could not find anything that specifically stated that woman who would die could still get one, however, the language seems pretty specific that it would be illegal in all circumstances.
      - Evermyrtle
        
        The baby did not crawl in there and kill the mother. The mother is responsible for the baby being there. The baby is the innocent one in the party.
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        The mothers rights are more important that the the babies rights.
  - Evermyrtle
    
    With a governor like that one?? I don't think so ? I wonder if his mother ever wished she had aborted him. would have saved a lot of babies lives.
  - ORB
    
    If this keeps going we will soon have a nation of perverts, a "queer" nation as they like to proclaim!
http://twitter.com/lambsev11 @lambsev11

keep on trying Minnesotans.
Randy131

If he really wants regulations for all medical clinics in Minnesota, then this bill he vetoed was a good first step to the start of regulating medical clinics in Minnesota. It's hard for me to believe that in this modern day, that Minnesota does not regulate it's medical clinics, they regulate almost everything else, including the payment of Union dues, which they withhold from it's citizens pay checks without their consent and authority, but I guess that Governor Dayton is more concerned that the Unions are able to collect their dues from their members than he is about safety features for women receiving abortions in his state, or the children that were aborted yet remained alive after out of the mother's womb. I guess those children don't need regulations to make sure they're attended to and kept alive, the mother nor the state wanted them in the first place.
- daves
  
  Huh? I don't have union dues deducted from my paychecks.
- evermyrtle
  
  Excellent post Randy!!!! You know in most states crimes of murder are very strict. How about a start in protecting the most innocent and the most helpless, who are massacred .
ORB

One thing is certain. The leftist democrats are determined to slaughter as many unborn children as they can. It is really tragic. these are the people who make such a fuss over the less fortunate. Not that they care, they just want a vote. This I believe: God will not find them without guilt!
- http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
  
  Why exactly do you believe leftists want babies to be aborted? I thought they needed them so they could indoctrinate them in the leftist school system? Does not the left need more people that agree with them?
Devasahayam

Did Dayton get a recent bribe from Krishna Rajanna, who was closed down in Kansas due to his "clinic" being a barely-converted godown which was even less sanitary than an unconverted one (as shown by police video)?
Buddy

So Gov. Dayton goes on record as the state's Defender of Abortion Clinics. Doe this new positon that the gov has taken now entitle him to a special place of honor in Minnesota? Khampion Kiddy Killer? or KKK?
madmemere

Time for Dayton to "retire"- -at the very next election, in Mn!
Steve03

You're denouncing a governor for vetoing a law that would have imposed an expensive, intrusive, duplicative, and unnecessary burden on small business owners? Are there no true conservatives here?