Alabama and Oklahoma forge ahead with new restrictions on abortion

[theHandpuppet]

FIGHT. BACK. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oklahoma House passes new abortion restrictions bill
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/28/us-usa-abortion-oklahoma-idUSBREA1R0YM20140228

(Reuters) - The Oklahoma House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill on Thursday to apply new restrictions on abortions that lawmakers said are aimed at protecting women's health but opponents say are designed to shut down clinics.

The legislation includes a provision similar to one put in place in neighboring Texas that requires physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at an appropriately equipped hospital within 30 miles of their practice.

The Republican lawmaker who wrote the legislation, Mike Ritze, a physician, said his goal was to ensure women who experience complications like hemorrhaging, can have access to hospital care immediately.... MORE


Alabama Introduces Every Abortion Restriction it Can Think of
http://www.care2.com/causes/repro-wrap-alabama-introduces-every-abortion-restriction-it-can-think-of-and-other-news.html

We are midway through many states’ legislative sessions, which means that for many red states, the lipservice to concentrating on “economic issues” has been paid and they can move straight to their favorite feat: limiting a person’s rights to abortion and birth control. In no state is this more clear than in Alabama, where five different bills meant to curb the right to legal abortion, and even birth control, have been introduced or reviewed this week.

Alabama state politicians held a hearing for four bills earlier this week, subtly placing the hearings all on the same day, which was also the day that anti-choice groups were planning a rally at the capital. Three of the bills would change the waiting period for an abortion from 24 to 48 hours, would force doctors to tell patients who are having an abortion for fetal anomalies that there are perinatal hospice centers to consider first, and would provide even more restrictions on parental consent, including making the parent show up with a birth certificate and limiting what evidence a teen can present during a judicial bypass hearing. The fourth bill would ban abortion from the point in which an embryonic heart tone can be detected, which could be as little as a week after a missed period.... MORE

[love_katz]

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This makes me wish we could evacuate all the women who wish to leave these states. Just sickening.