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High school students could get a more graphic explanation about abortion procedures, including whether a fetus would feel any pain during the procedure, under a bill that passed the House.
More from the Kansas City Star:
The Idaho Senate is set to debate an informed consent bill that requires women to wait 24 hours before having an abortion and be told by doctors about their fetuses and the procedure’s potential complications.
More via Boise’s KBCI:
A handfull of abortion-related bills passed the Georgia State Senate Thursday. The measures require doctors to offer women seeking the procedure a look at an image of the fetus and give amnesty to pharmacists who don’t want to give out abortion pills they say go against their beliefs.
The Columbus Ledger-Inquirer has more:
Republican Gov. Matt Blunt and Missouri’s largest anti-abortion group expressed reservations Thursday about newly proposed legislation seeking to ban most abortions in the state.
KMBC Kansas City has more:
In the wake of similar legislation passing in South Dakota last week, The Mississippi House Public Health Committee has approved a bill that would prohibit most abortions on and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) has said that he plans to sign the legislation if both houses of the Mississippi Legislature approve it. The bill, which only allows exceptions to save a woman’s life, would tighten Mississippi’s already strict abortion laws that mandate a 24-hour waiting period, counseling, and consent from both parents for a minor.
Jurist has more.
In a speech before the National Press Club Tuesday, Iowa Governor and potential Democratic presidential candidate Tom Vilsack sid he would favor tighter restrictions on abortion similar to those recently passed in South Dakota.
The Des Moines Register has more:
The Wisconsin-based Women’s Medical Fund is calling for a boycott of South Dakota tourism if Governor Mike Rounds signs a bill banning most abortions.
KELO-TV has more:
Attorney General Mike Cox filed a brief Monday backing his appeal of a ruling that declared a Michigan abortion law unconstitutional.
MILive has more:
In spite of the GOP-led Texas Legislature’s consistent opposition to abortion, some of the most ardent abortion foes in the Lege say that the state isn’t ready to take things as far as South Dakota has done.
The Houston Chronicle has more:
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Don Stenberg said he is pleased the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to reconsider the 2000 partial-birth abortion case that bears his name from his time as Nebraska Attorney General.
Prior to Stenberg v. Carhart, 20 states, including Nebraska, had outlawed the practice of partial birth abortions.
The Columbus Telegram has more:
Two bills that would restrict—or at least impose increased conditions on—abortions in Utah have strong public support, according to the results of a poll by media outlets in the state.
The Deseret Morning News has more:
The Oklahoma House Thursday passed two bills that anti-choice advocated say will reduce the number of abortions in the state.
KETN has more:
Missouri is considering a measure to drop the teaching of sex-ed from schools. Via Bush v. Choice.
In an apparrent attempt to back away from what has become a subject of national controversy, South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds, a strong opponent of abortion, said Thursday his decision to sign the bill would be determined by its details; Friday, Rounds said he was “inclined” to sign the bill but reiterated that the bill must be without “technical defects.”
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A day after the South Dakota Legislature adopted the toughest abortion regulations in the nation, the State Senate failed to approve a bill that would have placed much tougher informational requirements on abortion doctors in the state.
The measure failed 15-17.
HB1198 would have required doctors who perform abortions to screen women for individual risk factors, said Sen. Brock Greenfield (R-Clark), who is executive director of South Dakota Right to Life. It would place no additional burden on women considering abortions, but they would get more information before making those decisions, he told AP.
From their press release:
Today, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the nation’s leading advocate for personal privacy and a woman’s right to choose, called the passage by both houses of South Dakota’s legislature of a criminal ban on abortion throughout pregnancy a monumental setback for women.
Kansas State Rep. Brenda Landwehr (R-Whichita), a vocal opponent of abortion, admitted to House members Wednesday that she had had an abortion during debate on a bill.
A Virginia State Senate Committee today rejected a House bill that would require abortion clinics to meet some of the standards of ambulatory surgical centers.
South Dakota lawmakers Wednesday approved the most restrictive abortion law of any in the nation and likely set the stage for new legal challenges the law’s supporters hope will lead to an overturning of Roe v. Wade.
The Senate Health and Provider Services Committee Wednesday ripped some controversial language from two abortion bills before passing the legislation out of committee without dissent.
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