This line sums it up quite well, "Pittman said she is confident that no doctors or medical experts were present when the new abortion rules were drafted." Reminds me of the recent memes floating about Facebook showing various legislative meetings concerning women's health issue, problem being, no women were included in those meetings.
Or consider this gem of a clip from Rachel Maddow, showing Ohio State Representative, Jim Buchy being interviewed for an Al Jazeera documentary. He
advocates extreme anti-abortion legislation for his state, but admits he has
never considered the matter from a woman's perspective.
My point being, we have "unqualified" individuals making decisions and policy for 50% of the population and they are clueless as to what they are doing.
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The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals said Monday night that it plans to rescind a proposal to instate a 30-day waiting period for women seeking abortions, following media reports that the waiting period and other proposed regulations could shut down all five abortion clinics in the state.
DHH is considering an "emergency" set of rules for abortion clinics, which currently includes new building standards and an unprecedented requirement that a woman take certain blood tests at least 30 days before she can have an abortion. This last requirement would force women seeking abortions to have the procedure later into their pregnancies, making it riskier and more costly, and could make it impossible for some women to obtain a legal abortion before Louisiana's 20-week gestational limit.
Moreover, the blood tests indicated by the new rules, which check a patient's hematocrit and hemoglobin levels before a surgery, are normally performed the day of an abortion procedure because they need to be as current as possible, women's health care providers said.
Louisiana Changes Bizarre New Abortion Rules After People Notice Them
See also:
Louisiana Rules Would Have Required 30-Day Waiting Period Before Legal Abortion (UPDATED)
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