Texas House moves to require more abortion reporting data

[TexasTowelie]

AUSTIN - Health facilities that perform abortions may soon have to release more detailed data on complications that arise during and after the procedure — another move by GOP lawmakers to crack down on abortions in Texas.

House lawmakers voted 94-52 to require hospitals, birthing centers, community health centers and freestanding emergency rooms that perform abortions — not just abortion clinics — to submit complication reports to the Department of State Health Services. It’s a move abortion foes hope will give them a fuller scope of problems associated with the procedure.

Against their opponents’ objections, GOP lawmakers also tacked on an amendment creating an online database for abortion complications, requiring doctors to report to the state within 72 hours of a complication, and seeking information as personal as the date of the woman’s last menstrual cycle and her marital status.

“It’s important to make sure complications that arise in abortions are disclosed and make sure we have the right data,” said Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, R-Southlake and the bill’s author.

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[secondwind]

1. Where's a woman's privacy here? n/t