On his radio program yesterday, Bryan Fischer interviewed right-wing activist and attorney Steve Crampton about the Supreme Court decision striking down a Texas law aimed at limiting access to legal abortion under the guise of protecting the health of women.
Fischer and Crampton, who is currently running for a seat on the Mississippi Supreme Court, mocked the idea that having to travel hundreds of miles and spend hundreds of dollars to obtain an abortion because unnecessary requirements had shut down dozens of women’s health clinics in Texas created an “undue burden” upon women, saying that nobody is entitled to have medical care located nearby.
Fischer absurdly likened this situation to people with cancer who incur significant expenses and travel requirements in order to obtain treatment at renowned hospitals like the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota or the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
“Nobody says that is an undue burden and therefore we are going to require every community to have a MD Anderson clinic,” Fischer said, “and we’re going to require every state to have a Mayo Clinic.”
“I think you’re exactly right,” Crampton replied. “Where it is written that we have a right to access a hospital or, in this case, a specialty kind of thing, within X number of miles of our home? I don’t think that’s in my version of the Constitution.”
