Iowa board bans telemedicine abortions

[The Straight Story]

Iowa board bans telemedicine abortions

DES MOINES, Iowa -- A state-panel voted Friday to ban a video-conferencing system that Iowa doctors have used to provide abortion pills to more than 3,000 women across the state since 2008.

Debate over the Planned Parenthood system has been steeped in the divisive politics of abortion. But the Iowa Board of Medicine insisted Friday that their decision was based solely on patient safety concerns.

"How can any of us possibly find that a medical abortion performed over the Internet is as safe as one provided by a physician in person?" board Chairman Greg Hoversten asked his colleagues.

The Iowa City physician said complications from the pills can be serious.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/30/iowa-board-bans-telemedicine-abortions/2750185/

[uppityperson]

1. A telling paragraph, explains the problem with this. Aside from control issues I mean.

For example, Gales said, the rules wouldn't solve the problem of rural women lacking follow-up care. If the telemedicine system is shut down and rural women have to travel to urban clinics for abortion pills, she said, they still would go home to complete the abortion. If complications arose there, they could have trouble finding immediate assistance, she said.

[MH1]

2. Exactly. No one gives a damn about the woman.

That's it, plain and simple. A woman is just an incubator for the man's spawn.

[EC]

3. I think they should switch their contempt for the woman

involved to the male that caused the problem to begin with. Stop picking on women.