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Sunday, February 26th, 2017

Indiana is going hard against abortion this week

Author:     Maureen Shaw
Source:     Think Progress
Publication Date:     Feb 24 2017
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Stephan:   If you want to end abortions make sure all children get proper sex ed, and that adequate contraception resources are made easily and inexpensively available. The social outcome data of the countries where those policies are in place makes this very clear. But that isn't what we do in the U.S. is it? No we pass laws that threaten the health of women, and seek to do exactly the opposite of what good science says produces the result sought, decreasing abortions. And in the new world of Trump we are going to see, as this Indiana report describes, a whole new raft of anti-choice legislation. Controlling women is the life work of Mike Pence, as his entire legislative record attests

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Indiana is gunning for abortion rights this week. Within a span of two days, Indiana’s House revived its “abortion reversal” bill, and a Senate panel advanced a restrictive bill aimed at curbing minors’ access to abortion care.

Even for Indiana, which has a draconian anti-choice record, these measures are extreme in their disregard for women’s health and privacy.

On Tuesday, the House Public Policy Committee approved H.B. 1128, which requires, among other things, that “a pregnant woman be informed orally and in writing before an abortion obtained through an abortion inducing drug that the abortion may be possibly reversed.”

Last week, the committee approved a similar bill, but was met with resistance by some House Republicans, who cited concerns about a provision requiring abortion providers to perform an ultrasound to determine a fetus’ gestational […]

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