Neb. files defense of abortion law

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The state of Nebraska filed briefs Friday defending its new law requiring mental health screenings for women seeking abortions.

State officials were responding to Planned Parenthood of the Heartland's request for an order blocking the law from taking effect July 15. Both sides will argue their cases at a hearing Tuesday.

Planned Parenthood filed its lawsuit last month challenging the new law, saying it could be difficult to comply with and could require doctors to give women information irrelevant to the procedure.

Attorney General Jon Bruning said the law is designed to make sure women understand the risks and complications that may accompany an abortion. Bruning also says Planned Parenthood shouldn’t be allowed to sue, because doctors are the only people who could face civil penalties under the law.


Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20100709/NEWS97/707109918/21#neb-files-defense-of-abortion-law

[uppityperson]

1. k&r for more exposure. Do they require this of men seeking vasectomies? Appendectomies?

Other surgery? No. They rely on doctors giving information and getting consent forms signed.

"the required screenings would also force doctors to stray from accepted medical practice." Indeed.

[katandmoon]

2. How about women who intend to carry to term? No, the state doesn't give a shit if THEY're nuts.

[NC_Nurse]

5. That's exactly what I thought.

[uppityperson]

6. Yup. It is a double standard in a lot of ways. Oppressive and offensive in many

[SpiralHawk]

3. "If you disagree with our opinion, you are legally insane." - ChristoFascists

"And you WILL be demeaned, drugged, and incarcerated until you do agree."

- ChristoFascists

[alp227]

4. It's the 21st century. Why all the primitive anti-abortion beliefs?

I'm tired of hearing the same old junk science and religious garbage like fetal pain, fetal personhood, breast cancer, Biblical sin, immoral, and "scars you for the rest of your life" arguments against abortion. I'm tired of all the freaking attempts to discourage abortion by those who also demand lower taxes and oppose government-run health care and generally "limited government" (of course those factors apply only to rich, white, Christian, heterosexual men and their good ol' sons). As Chris Rock said, "I'm tired of this shit. Tired tired tired". Kudos to Planned Parenthood. Nebraska will go to court and have another S added to its name.

[uppityperson]

7. Seriously. They package up the "I think it's murder" with pseudo-science bs

and think that will make their opinion mean more. While I very much disagree with "it's murder", at least people who spout that are honest.

I am very sick of this shit also.

[niyad]

8. k and r--OF COURSE women need to be screened for mental health when seeking an abortion--

after all, it is their god-given duty to supply cannon fodder and cogs for the machines--and women are too damned stupid to know what an abortion entails--clueless little twits that they are.

my question to these people is this: if women are so stupid, so careless, so ignorant, so nuts--why in the HELL would you want them birthing and rearing children?

[enlightenment]

9. Does anyone know - off the top of their head -

what group is behind this particular bit of legislation? Because it is being passed in other states, too (Florida, Oklahoma, Kansas - I think Colorado?) in essentially the same package of language and reasoning. I seem to remember reading about the group in Florida crowing about how they were working to get the law passed in all the states, but I can't find the article.

It has to be a concerted attempt by some group - like the legislation that banned smoking in public places. That was backed by a single, very effective organization that pushed the legislation onto the ballots in many states, all at the same time - the wording of the question was almost identical across the board. Can't recall the group that did that . . . of course few on DU complained about that legislation because they agreed with it.

At the time, I thought it was establishing a dangerous precedent - offering a model of how to successfully change law on almost a national basis (and in the process, convince the federal government that people really WANT the change, thereby making it more likely that the SC would dismiss any challenges).

Can anyone help me jog my memory? Thanks.

[rocktivity]

10. Does Bruning believe that women who fail these screenings should be allowed to give birth?

Shouldn't it also apply to elective procedures? Shouldn't it also apply to men?

:crazy:
rocktivity