Starting This Week, It’s Harder to Get an Abortion in 5 States

[cali]

Abortion restrictions are popping up everywhere, it seems.

While activists and celebrities protest a bill in Texas, Ohio just enacted legislation of its own.

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Here’s what they do:

Alabama – HB 57: Starting Monday, women in Alabama aren’t able to obtain “abortion pills” via telemedicine. Planned Parenthood has said that making medication abortions, like the RU-486 pill, available to women via video conference provides safe access to women who may live far away from a clinic. National Right to Life has suggested that supplying the pills without in-person medical supervision, and perhaps without a hospital nearby, can put women in danger. Now, abortion doctors in Alabama must examine women before prescribing abortion pills.

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Indiana – SB 371: Women must now be given ultrasounds before getting abortions in Indiana, under a new law signed by Republican Gov. Mike Pence on May 1. Any health care provider that prescribes abortion pills must now abide by the same regulations as medical abortion clinics, and the secretary of state’s office must now draft a new set of regulations for sanitation standards, staff qualifications, necessary emergency equipment and other requirements for clinics.

Medication abortions can no longer be prescribed via telemedicine consultations: Abortion doctors or nurses must meet with women in person and discuss the health risks of taking an abortion pill.

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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/07/starting-this-week-its-harder-to-get-an-abortion-in-5-states/

TRAP laws, TRAP laws and more TRAP laws. The anti-choicers unlocked the secret to effectively banning abortion.

Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP)

Burdensome and Unnecessary Requirements Limit Access to Services

"TRAP" (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) laws single out the medical practices of doctors who provide abortions, and impose on them requirements that are different and more burdensome than those imposed on other medical practices. For example, such regulations may require that abortions be performed in far more sophisticated and expensive facilities than are necessary to ensure the provision of safe procedures. Compliance with these physical plant requirements may require extensive renovations or be physically impossible in existing facilities. TRAP laws may also allow unannounced state inspections, even when patients are present. These excessive and unnecessary government regulations – an ever-growing trend among state legislatures – increase the cost and scarcity of abortion services, harming women's health and inhibiting their reproductive choices.

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http://reproductiverights.org/en/project/targeted-regulation-of-abortion-providers-trap

[Botany]

1. In Ohio Kasich has made "slut shamming" the law of the land.

Do you need or want an abortion young lady? Well just lay back and get an unneeded medical
test in order to humilate you and make you think you are a murderer.

[CincyDem]

2. To call Kasich a dick would be insulting to dicks everywhere. nt

[Botany]

3. Right now Kasich and his wall st buddies are busy stealing the profits from all

.... state liquor sales by running the funds through kasich's "jobs ohio."
they paid the state 5 billion* and they will bring in @ least 20 billion that
should have gone into the state's general fund.


* money borrowed against the back end of the deal from wall st/investment banks

Kasich is way fucking dirty