Seven States Working Hard To Shut Down Abortion Clinics

[redqueen]

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Details about the efforts underway in Alabama, Indiana, North Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Mississippi, and North Carolina are described at the link.

Abortion opponents are chipping away at reproductive rights from all angles —and one particularly insidious attack on women’s health is currently advancing in states across the country. Under the guise of “protecting women’s safety,” Republican lawmakers are successfully pushing unnecessary, complicated restrictions on abortion clinics that will ultimately force them to close their doors.

The Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers, or TRAP laws, tend to capture fewer headlines than other types of abortion restrictions, largely because they’re complicated pieces of legislation that may not seem outrageous on the surface. But women’s health advocates warn they actually represent one of the most serious threats to reproductive rights in the nation. This is an effective anti-choice tactic because it’s an indirect method of restricting abortion access —rather than banning the procedure itself, TRAP laws impose so much red tape on abortion providers that clinics are unable to continue providing reproductive care to the women who need it. Here are seven states that are threatening to undermine women’s right to legal abortion services by shutting down abortion clinics:

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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/03/1815111/states-advancing-trap-laws/

[lastlib]

1. This shit has got to end!

There has to be a way to fight it.

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[redqueen]

4. Women have to reach out to other women.

We have to persuade them to stop voting for people who pass these laws.

[niyad]

2. k and r--this information needs to be spread everywhere

[Starry Messenger]

3. k&r

[The Straight Story]

5. One brewing in Alaska:

http://www.adn.com/2013/03/29/2845077/senate-finance-committee-takes.html

JUNEAU, Alaska — The Senate Finance Committee started hearing a bill Friday that seeks to clarify when an abortion is "medically necessary."

SB49, by Sen. John Coghill, sets out parameters defining which abortions Alaska must pay for under the state Medicaid program.

The Alaska Supreme Court held that the state must fund medically necessary abortions if it pays for other procedures deemed medically necessary for people in need.

Payment wouldn't be made for "elective" abortions unless the woman was a victim of rape or incest.

Sen. Anna Fairclough, a Republican from Eagle River, noted that many women don't report rape for personal reasons. She said she doesn't want to subject women to public scrutiny as an unintended consequence of seeking an abortion.