Fight begins on 2nd phase of Texas abortion law

[TexasTowelie]

AUSTIN — Abortion-rights groups, just handed a defeat by a federal appeals court, are considering a new legal challenge to another facet of Texas’ law restricting abortions.

The second phase of the restrictions, due to take effect in September, would require that women using pills to induce an abortion must go to an outpatient surgical center to swallow the medication in front of a doctor.

Previously, such a dose, designed to induce cramping and bleeding to complete the abortion, would be taken at home. But regulations written by state health officials to implement the law will no longer allow that.

Six of the 24 abortion clinics operating in the state currently meet the required standards of ambulatory surgical centers — such as specific room and doorway sizes, air sterilization systems, back-up generators, blood supplies, and male and female locker rooms on site. As a result, Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Sarah Wheat said, more clinics will close, and abortion medication will be “out of reach for thousands of Texas women.”

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Coupled with a 2012 law requiring women seeking abortions to view a sonogram 24 hours before the procedure, women will soon have to make four visits to the same doctor to get a pill-induced abortion.

More at http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20140401-fight-begins-on-2nd-phase-of-texas-abortion-law.ece .

[PumpkinAle]

1. Kick - this gets more

and more sickening.


Coupled with a 2012 law requiring women seeking abortions to view a sonogram 24 hours before the procedure, women will soon have to make four visits to the same doctor to get a pill-induced abortion.


The Fifth circuit court of appeals have more in common with the laws of the Taliban than the laws of America. Why is it okay for the GOP / tea party, fundamentalist employers and quasi religious fundamentalist to have more say in what a woman can do with her body than the woman herself?

[DhhD]

2. There should be a counter measure for persons wanting to remove birth control pills and

birth control before the sixth week of pregnancy (before a heartbeat), they must sign up to be Foster Parents at their own expense to run for 18 years. That means no food stamps, rent vouchers or medical care money for the child as these are Conservative stances. They should bear the cost of their representation and activism.