This might be better suited to SMMT but it's a political issue so I've started it here.
As part of their opposition to abortion groups in the United States have succeeded in requiring "counselling" for patients. Though controls on the groups providing such "counselling" this has become both a source of funding for religious anti-abortion groups and an opportunity to harangue and harass women seeking an abortion.
Even when such laws merely require that a pregnant woman be supplied with "information" by a physician it is a fact that this information is often blatantly untrue.
Physicians in Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Utah are required tell women who seek an abortion that the fetus will feel pain as it is being aborted, despite the abject lack of evidence for this statement and evidence that this is simply untrue,
in Arizona, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Virginia, and Wisconsin are legally required to compel women who seek abortions to pay for an ultrasound examination and to view the screen on which it is displayed. The only purpose for requiring this costly and medically unnecessary procedure is to influence women to change their minds about having an abortion.
Physicians in Arkansas, Kansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas require that physicians inform women who seek an abortion that the procedure will increase their risk of breast cancer.
While this is often trotted out by the god botherers, this statement is utterly untrue.
Physicians in Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia are required to inform women who seek an abortion that the procedure places them at great risk for negative psychological consequences and to refer them for counseling about these issues.
Again this is untrue.
Requiring physicians to lie to patients to support a socio-poltical agenda is grossly unethical and damaging to both the doctor-patient relationship in specific and society in general.
More here and here.
As part of their opposition to abortion groups in the United States have succeeded in requiring "counselling" for patients. Though controls on the groups providing such "counselling" this has become both a source of funding for religious anti-abortion groups and an opportunity to harangue and harass women seeking an abortion.
Even when such laws merely require that a pregnant woman be supplied with "information" by a physician it is a fact that this information is often blatantly untrue.
Physicians in Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Utah are required tell women who seek an abortion that the fetus will feel pain as it is being aborted, despite the abject lack of evidence for this statement and evidence that this is simply untrue,
Quote:
A rigorous 2005 scientific review of evidence published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) concluded that fetal perception of pain is unlikely before the third trimester. |
in Arizona, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Virginia, and Wisconsin are legally required to compel women who seek abortions to pay for an ultrasound examination and to view the screen on which it is displayed. The only purpose for requiring this costly and medically unnecessary procedure is to influence women to change their minds about having an abortion.
Physicians in Arkansas, Kansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas require that physicians inform women who seek an abortion that the procedure will increase their risk of breast cancer.
While this is often trotted out by the god botherers, this statement is utterly untrue.
Physicians in Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia are required to inform women who seek an abortion that the procedure places them at great risk for negative psychological consequences and to refer them for counseling about these issues.
Again this is untrue.
Requiring physicians to lie to patients to support a socio-poltical agenda is grossly unethical and damaging to both the doctor-patient relationship in specific and society in general.
More here and here.
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