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Related: About this forumIndiana GOP Drops Forced Ultrasound Requirement To Focus On Shutting Down Abortion Clinics
Indiana GOP Drops Forced Ultrasound Requirement To Focus On Shutting Down Abortion Clinics
Last month, Indiana Republicans proposed a measure intended to shut down a Planned Parenthood clinic in the state. The original SB 371 legislation also contained a clause that would have required women taking the RU-486 abortion pill to undergo two invasive transvaginal probes one before taking the pill, and one after. But ever since the transvaginal ultrasound provision first erupted into controversy, the states GOP has been working to scale it back, hoping to assuage public outrage and quietly shepard the rest of the anti-choice legislations passage into law.
At first, the Indiana Senate removed the bills second ultrasound requirement to ensure its passage. And now, a House committee has removed the ultrasound requirement altogether. According to an Associated Press report, Indiana Right to Life president Mike Fichter says the group agreed with the decision to drop the ultrasound requirement because debate over it in the state Senate had taken focus away from its goal of tightening regulations on clinics that provide abortions. Now that abortion opponents have conceded to public pressure on the invasive forced ultrasound measures, the rest of SB 371 will seem moderate in comparison. But the anti-choice legislation would still have far-reaching consequences for womens reproductive rights in the state.
Indiana lawmakers are pursuing a popular right-wing strategy for limiting abortion access: Indirectly restricting abortion by imposing costly, unnecessary requirements on abortion clinics with the intention of forcing them to close their doors. SB 371 would force health clinics that prescribe the abortion pill to adhere to the same standards as surgical clinics, even though medication abortions are not actually surgical procedures. Its a direct attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic that provides the RU-486 to patients seeking to terminate a pregnancy during the first trimester, since that clinic would likely not be able to comply with the new restrictions.
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Rest of article here: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/27/1784551/indiana-ultrasound-trap/
The 'War on Women' continues...
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Indiana GOP Drops Forced Ultrasound Requirement To Focus On Shutting Down Abortion Clinics (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Mar 2013
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Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)1. And ReThugs keep saying, "A war on women...who me?"
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,437 posts)2. Legislatures sure love to "play doctor" don't they?
I'm always surprised that real doctors don't get more upset about it