Bill targets abortion screening (first of it's kind would break new legal ground)

[Omaha Steve]

Http://www.omaha.com/article/20100325/NEWS01/703259810#bill-targets-abortion-screening

Published Thursday March 25, 2010

By Martha Stoddard
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU

LINCOLN - One side calls the proposal modest. The other labels it outrageous.

Both say a bill in the Nebraska Legislature that would require extensive screening of women seeking abortions would break new legal ground.

“There is no state in this country that has ever passed anything that is remotely close to this,” said Jordan Goldberg, state advocacy counsel for the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights.

Greg Schleppenbach, who lobbies on abortion issues for the Nebraska Catholic Conference, said the measure represents “new territory.”

The bill is scheduled to be debated by the full Legislature on Thursday afternoon.

With an anti-abortion majority in the Legislature, Legislative Bill 594 has a good chance of passage this year.

Yet so far, it has been the mostly ignored abortion bill.

FULL story at link.

[uppityperson]

1. Link is odd. Thanks for the story, this is obnoxious.

Oh bullshit. I think people should spend some time volunteering at an "abortion facility" to see what happens there rather than trying to pass restrictive legislation based on their fears.

“This is a very common standard that you would have in any other area of medical practice,” he said. “We have a strong belief that that (individual assessment and counseling) is not being done in abortion facilities.”

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Todd Buchacker, regional director of health services for Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, said the informed consent process for abortion patients is more extensive than for other common procedures because of the nature of abortion and the attention it receives. At the Lincoln clinic where Planned Parenthood performs abortions in Nebraska, staff members spend time talking with women about risks and about their medical histories, Buchacker said. The women also get medical examinations before the procedure.
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The bill would require assessment of a woman seeking an abortion to see whether she was feeling pressured to have an abortion. She also would have to be evaluated for any physical, psychological, emotional, demographic or situational risk factor that could cause mental or physical complications. Under the bill, the factors would include any risk identified in a research report published a year or more earlier in a peer-reviewed journal that is indexed by one of two major scientific indexing services.

If the abortion provider failed to fully assess and inform a woman of her risk factors, she could sue for the wrongful death of her fetus. The bill would make it easier for a woman to win such a suit by providing a legal presumption that she would not have had an abortion if the doctor had followed the law.

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3. Coming soon to a root canal, tonsillectomy, bunionectomy, gall bladder excision, etc, near you...

"She... would have to be evaluated for any physical, psychological, emotional, demographic or situational risk factor that could cause mental or physical complications."

Translation: Women must be legally regarded as (1) minor children below the age of reason, and/or (2) incompetent imbeciles, incapable of making a health care decision.

:grr:

And these are the same douches who show up at the Teabagger confabs carrying signs like:


Because "government interference" is BAD... except when it comes to controlling women.

[uppityperson]

2. I forgot to say, thank you for continuing to post these stories here

it is important to know what crap they are trying to pull.