Dark Ages America: Kansas abortion bill would allow doctors to lie to patients

[marmar]

from AlterNet:



Kansas Pushing "Most Dangerous Anti-Abortion Bill" in the Country, Would Let Doctors Lie to Patients


From Addictinginfo.com, some good consolidated information on a sweeping anti-choice bill which has just cleared the Kansas house and is headed to the state Senate, just another front in the war on women--which is really a war on families and all individuals affected by reproductive health.

Some of its provisions:

• A personhood measure that would define life as beginning at conception, which would almost certainly make abortion equivalent to murder and outlaw all abortion in the state of Kansas. Many forms of contraception could also be banned.

• A measure that significantly limits abortions in the third trimester.

• A provision that bans women from claiming abortion insurance coverage and services on their taxes.

• Doctors are hereby ordered to tell women that abortion causes breast cancer, which is a damned lie.

• Doctors are also shielded from lawsuits if they withhold critical health information from pregnant women that could cause them to decide to have an abortion. In other words, they don’t have to tell women about the health of the fetus they carry and don’t have to tell women about any problems with the pregnancy.

Obviously, the end result here verges on a total ban, by the kind of legislative chiseling-away at rights and escalation of state-sanctioned harassment that we've frequently described here at AlterNet. ...................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/927388/kansas_pushing_%22most_dangerous_anti-abortion_bill%22_in_the_country%2C_would_let_doctors_lie_to_patients/

[HockeyMom]

1. Would an OB/GYN be prevented from telling a patient with a tubal pregnancy?

Oh, no, she might abort that "person". Cannot have that, even if that person cannot survive, and she can die too.

[Jennicut]

2. So much for so called "smaller government".

And allowing doctors to lie to their patients? Dangerous and crazy. And very, very scary. I would not want to be a woman living in Kansas right now.

[MuseRider]

3. You should hear what they said

during the debates about this. I turned it off very quickly. These people think women are nothing but there to use. I could not listen.