Telemedicine in abortion foes’ sights

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20101228/NEWS01/712289940/3#telemedicine-in-abortion-foes-sights

Published Tuesday December 28, 2010

By Martha Stoddard
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU

LINCOLN — Nebraska abortion rights opponents hope that what happens in Iowa, stays in Iowa.

To make sure, they plan to pursue legislation next year that would prevent a pioneering Iowa telemedicine program from crossing the Missouri River.

The proposal would bar Nebraska doctors from prescribing and dispensing abortion-inducing drugs via the Internet, as Planned Parenthood of the Heartland has done for more than 2,000 women in Iowa since the summer of 2008.

Nebraska lawmakers can expect to see that and other abortion-related legislation when they return to Lincoln on Jan. 5.

Abortion rights opponents look to build on their success in 2010, when they saw Nebraska passage of a first-of-its-kind ban on abortions beginning at 20 weeks after fertilization.

For 2011, opponents plan to pursue a telemedicine bill and at least two proposals that would restrict insurance coverage of abortion under the federal health care overhaul.

FULL story at link.

[uppityperson]

1. "not an attack on abortion, it’s an attack on telemedicine" indeed.

“To make an argument that telemedicine is unsafe because the physician is not present is not an attack on abortion, it’s an attack on telemedicine,” he said.

Are they going to take on ALL telemedicine? Thanks for the stories you are posting Steve