Step Aside, I'm a Doctor

[babylonsister]

Sanity!


Step Aside, I'm a Doctor
Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux
September 17, 2013

California's passage of a law allowing nurse practitioners and other advanced-practice clinicians to perform early-term abortions shows the importance of having the medical community weigh in.


It’s hard to miss the fallout from the barrage of abortion restrictions that came out of state legislatures this year. Four abortion clinics in rural Texas announced plans to close after determining it would be too expensive to comply with a new state law imposing unnecessary medical standards. A clinic in Ohio, where similar laws have been passed, say they may also have to close. Iowa’s telemedicine abortion program—a creative workaround designed to bring first-trimester abortion to women in rural parts of the state—was recently shut down by the state medical board. In states nationwide, the hurdles to access safe, high-quality abortion care are getting higher and higher.

But California is bucking the trend. A law that would allow advanced-practice clinicians—a technical term for nurse practitioners, physician’s assistants, and certified nurse midwives—to perform surgical first-trimester abortions passed in the California legislature in late August. If Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, signs the bill as expected, California will join Oregon, Montana, Vermont, and New Hampshire as the fifth state to allow clinicians to perform first-trimester abortions. Pro-life groups who oppose the law claim that allowing anyone other than a physician to perform abortions endangers women’s health. Their argument might have held more weight had it not been for a group of researchers at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

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http://prospect.org/article/step-aside-im-doctor

[HappyMe]

1. k&r

That's good.

[Mnemosyne]

2. Definitely nice to see some sanity for a change. Thanks Sis! nt

[MH1]

4. Did you read the article? nt

[Jackpine Radical]

9. No, its lips got tired after the first paragraph.

[MH1]

5. Oh, and nice set of wrong-wing talking points you have there.

If you're still around in a little bit I might take the time to address them, but everyone here knows most of what you wrote is pure bullshit.

[glowing]

6. Seriously? It's the right of the mother to choose.

We would have less abortions to begin with if we had sex Ed, less misogyny toward women, and access to preventative birth control options.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

7. Early term abortions are more like a D&C....

BTW: Nice example of Right Wing Word Salad.

[babylonsister]

8. Enjoy your stay!

[Hekate]

10. Goodness, you certainly have your right-wing talking points down pat.

Your so-called information is a downright lie in every respect.

My favorite RW spew is this one: I find it odd that you have been born yourself. So that is what you think of women? All women -- our mothers, your mother? That none of us would bear children at all unless forced to? You think your own mother would have aborted you if not forced to carry you to term.

That bespeaks a level of fear of womankind and hatred toward women that is just staggering.

[LiberalLoner]

19. +1 wonderful post!

[Hekate]

20. They keep saying that, and after awhile it sinks in: so much of what they say is projection...

... and the question should return to them full-force.

I stood counter-protest picket by the hospital during Randall Terry's "No Place to Hide" campaign and the signs his side carried were very revealing. They fear and hate women much more than they love the fetuses they use like medieval holy relics.

Hekate

[LiberalLoner]

21. Thank you for being in the combat zone. Yes, their misogyny is frightening and sickening.

[catrose]

11. still here after 2 posts eom

[derby378]

12. Cinco, quatro, tres, dos, uno...

[WilliamPitt]

13. "By the way, is abortion really care when..."

I swear to God, you fucking people make satire obsolete.

[GeorgeGist]

16. Yep

[hunter]

14. Word is the next Hitler has been aborted a few dozen times and Satan is not happy.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. Derp

[Heathen57]

17. Way to go California!

We really need to buck all these restrictions that the citizens don't want but the GOP wingnuts are demanding be put into place.

[SunSeeker]

18. Proud to be a Californian. nt