Right now, Virginia is regulating abortion clinics, making them meet hospital standards, in order to protect womens’ safety. Yet I don’t think there are any known cases of failures from too little regulation in Virginia abortion clinics. At least, I haven’t heard any brought up.
Abortion is not a good example to use here since it is often overregulated intentionally by politicians who oppose abortion and want to make abortions harder to get. There is no bias to explain because the policy fits their goal of restricting abortion.
Do you mean no cases of failure from too little regulation that couldn’t have been solved more cleverly by nonregulatory means, no cases of failure where the “solving” regulation didn’t have problems of its own, or just that you literally can’t think of any any cases ever of failures from too little regulation?
If you really mean the last, then avoiding modern-day issues so we don’t get into a fight, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, thalidomide babies, and the Exxon Valdez oil spill seem like go-to historical examples.
I mean that I haven’t heard anybody in the debate say, “Person X went to an abortion clinic in Virginia, and something bad happened that would have been prevented by these rules.” So the impulse to regulate isn’t due just to the easy availability of instances of under-regulation over instances of over-regulation.
Right now, Virginia is regulating abortion clinics, making them meet hospital standards, in order to protect womens’ safety. Yet I don’t think there are any known cases of failures from too little regulation in Virginia abortion clinics. At least, I haven’t heard any brought up.
Abortion is not a good example to use here since it is often overregulated intentionally by politicians who oppose abortion and want to make abortions harder to get. There is no bias to explain because the policy fits their goal of restricting abortion.
Do you mean no cases of failure from too little regulation that couldn’t have been solved more cleverly by nonregulatory means, no cases of failure where the “solving” regulation didn’t have problems of its own, or just that you literally can’t think of any any cases ever of failures from too little regulation?
If you really mean the last, then avoiding modern-day issues so we don’t get into a fight, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, thalidomide babies, and the Exxon Valdez oil spill seem like go-to historical examples.
I mean that I haven’t heard anybody in the debate say, “Person X went to an abortion clinic in Virginia, and something bad happened that would have been prevented by these rules.” So the impulse to regulate isn’t due just to the easy availability of instances of under-regulation over instances of over-regulation.
Presumably “Person X went to an abortion clinic in Virginia, and an abortion happened” fits the bill for a lot of participants in that debate.
There was a pretty notorious case of a bad abortion clinic in Philadelphia: http://healthland.time.com/2011/01/21/philly-abortion-horrors-what-matters-is-how-and-not-when-an-abortion-is-done-says-expert/
Whether the proposed regulation could help prevent similar cases in VA, I have no idea, but if it means more oversight, you know, it seems plausible.