Louisiana Changes Bizarre New Abortion Rules After People Notice Them

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

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Louisiana Rules Would Have Required 30-Day Waiting Period Before Legal Abortion (UPDATED)

Forward Progressives — Not The Onion: Rand Paul’s Appallingly Ridiculous Claim about Science and Abortion

One slight problem with the following article, which Rachel Maddow aptly points out, it fails to mention that Paul lifted his Gattaca spiel from Wikipedia

When it comes to Republican politicians I absolutely can’t stand, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is right near the top of that list. And let’s be honest here, the only reason he’s even a senator is because of who his dad is. Rand tries to piggy back off the “Paul-bot” cult-like following his dad built, while still trying to pander enough to the other radicals in the Republican party in hopes that all of it will someday culminate in a successful presidential bid.

Well, while speaking at a “Christian” school founded by the late Jerry Falwell, Rand “tea party darling” Paul took his pandering to the far right fanatics to a whole new level.

Paul spoke out and suggested that scientific advances in technology and medicine, combined with abortion, may one day lead to the return of eugenics.

What’s eugenics, you ask? It’s the process by which the human race might try to “perfect” itself by eliminating less than desirable traits.

Forward Progressives — Not The Onion: Rand Paul’s Appallingly Ridiculous Claim about Science and Abortion

In Texas, Tampons Are A Bigger Threat Than Guns According To The Capitol Police -

This was just too good not to share. If your female, living in Texas, I would packing my bags and taking my tax money elsewhere. I have yet to figure out how any woman could support any man whose thought process has devolved to this point, whether in Texas or not. It you haven't figure out that the "abortion issue" is nothing but a means of manipulation and control of OUR rights, then you may want to upgrade your biologically implanted thought machine.

If these types of mandates and laws continue, WE as women will cease to be considered human. WE will become property that can be bought and sold!!

This is the last stand. This is a major battle in the war being waged on women. Those working to limit women, to restrict women, to push us back into an age where we had no rights, no say, no freedoms to make any decisions, are tireless and relentless in their efforts. Women must push forward, never letting their words, their efforts, their vitriol keep us from the rights that those women who came before us worked so hard and fought so long to attain. Today they fear our tampons and our maxi pads as symbols of that which they do not and refuse to understand. What we women need to do is not only fight their fear, but fight against their ignorance as well. After all, it is that which we do not understand that we fear the most.

In Texas, Tampons Are A Bigger Threat Than Guns According To The Capitol Police -

GOP Rep: Rape exception not necessary because rape kits will 'clean her out' | God Discussion

I hope that after this statement she is no longer on the public health committee, as it is clearly evident that she has no clue; uniformed and uneducated in the basics of public health issues,,,

It is not some sort of anti-pregnancy clean-out kit, cannot unimpregnate a woman, and consists of absolutely nothing even remotely connected to the termination of a pregnancy.

If Laubenberg had bothered to familiarize herself with this, which she could have done by simply typing the words 'rape kit' into any Internet search engine, she would have not said,

“If a woman is raped… We have hospital emergency rooms. We have funded what’s called rape kits that will help the woman, basically clean her out. And then hopefully that will alleviate that.”

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She was questioned about her comments, and asked to clarify her belief that a woman can obtain an abortion at an emergency room via the use of a rape kit.

Laubenberg went on t0 clarify herself by stating her understanding that a rape kit is like a D&C, which is one of the methods of terminating a pregnancy, thereby equating a rape kit as being a method of abortion. There is a video at the end of the article of the exchange.

What's even more alarming is that Laubenberg sits on the Texas House Public Health Committee, and is the Chair of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

GOP Rep: Rape exception not necessary because rape kits will 'clean her out' | God Discussion

‘Pregnancy Begins 2 Weeks Before Conception’ Now The Law In Arizona | The New Civil Rights Movement

 While it becomes the seventh state to pass such legislation in the past two years, many Arizonans believe theirs is the most restrictive and sinister because of the degree to which it will legislate health care, thwart evidence-based medicine, and shame women.

‘Pregnancy Begins 2 Weeks Before Conception’ Now The Law In Arizona | The New Civil Rights Movement