Planned Parenthood Sues Over Nebraska Abortion Law
A new Nebraska law, scheduled to go into effect July 15, is coming under fire as Planned Parenthood has filed a lawsuit to challenge it's constitutionality:
The new law would require women wanting abortions to be screened by doctors or other health professionals to determine whether they were pressured into having the procedure. Those women also would have to be screened for risk factors indicating they could have mental or physical problems after an abortion.
Planned Parenthood, which runs one of two abortion clinics in Nebraska, has been critical of the measure, saying it could be difficult to comply with and could give women irrelevant information.
"The act would ban abortions in Nebraska by imposing, as a condition to performing lawful abortions, impossible, unintelligible, and unprecedented so-called 'informed consent' requirements on abortion providers that vastly stray from accepted and, indeed, good medical practice," Planned Parenthood said in its lawsuit.
Supporters of the screening law say it could help prevent medical problems after the abortion is performed and would put the pre-abortion reviews in line with those used in other medical procedures. Doctors would have to tell patients if they had any risk factors indicating they could have mental or physical problems after an abortion, but could still perform it in those cases.
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Remember those days when you went to a doctor, got an x-ray, talked about possible allergies (so you don't accidentally die), talked through a doctor's prognosis and possible treatment?
Ok - Now imagine all that being deemed bad medicine. That's essentially what Planned Parenthood is asserting with this lawsuit.
The law requires the abortion doctor to give a prognosis of where the woman is at physically, emotionally, and mentally. And than he is to relay that information correctly to the patient. The patient than, based upon the doctors prognosis, can go through with the abortion or decide against it.
Bad medicine? No. It's called information and the abortion industry hates it.
