I was particularly interested in the article linked below, because of its emphasis on hall width regulations. My hubby is an architect. I’ve spent hours typing reports for buildings he’s designed for group homes for the disabled, reports that had to be submitted to state authorities to prove these buildings met code on things like the sizes of windows, halls, and door openings.
This stuff matters. It’s about accessibility.
Any facility that is going to be inhabited must have sufficiently large windows to allow people to get out in case of a fire or other emergency. Any facility that is going to be used by people in wheelchairs must have ramps and halls and doors wide enough for their chairs to navigate. And out-patient surgical facilities must have ramps, doors and hallways wide enough to allow patients on stretchers to be transported to a hospital.
If you hear pro-aborts sneering about “onerous” hall width regulations, be aware that what they are rolling their eyes about are STANDARD CODE REGULATIONS that could mean the difference between a patient who has had a bad drug reaction or is bleeding uncontrollably making it to a hospital in time to receive life-saving treatment … or not. Here’s an example:
If ANY building with an elevator is required to have at least one that can handle an emergency stretcher, then how much MORE important is it that a building where out-patient surgery is done regularly have the same kind of regulations?
Virginia’s Blood-Spattered Abortion Clinics And Onerous Hallway Widths By Mollie Hemingway – October 25, 2013
When an Arlington County, Virginia, judge ruled that a lawsuit challenging regulations of Virginia abortion clinics could move forward, the Washington Post ran a news report emphasizing that the clinic regulations even mandate the width of hallways. It said that providers worry that complying with the regulations would put them out of business. …
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