Posts Tagged ‘waiting periods’
Iowa Supreme Court strikes down 72-hour waiting period
Statement of Melissa Fowler, Senior Director, Communications & Membership at the National Abortion Federation (NAF): Today, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that a 72-hour waiting period for abortion care violates the state’s Constitution. This waiting period would have only added to the many existing barriers that women in Iowa already face when they try to…
Read MoreSo, What’s the Deal With Florida?
Just last month, Florida Governor Rick Scott signed a new law that would require women seeking abortion care to wait 24 hours and make two clinic visits before they could access care. This law was set to go into effect today, July 1, but there’s some confusion over whether or not it has gone into…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS: Anti-choice politicians pass 525,600 minute national waiting period for abortion care
Just kidding! But given the continued attacks on abortion access, it wouldn’t be so surprising if they tried something that extreme. Even though women carefully consider their options before they make an appointment to obtain abortion care, some politicians think they know better and have passed medically unnecessary, government-enforced “time outs” for women seeking abortion…
Read MoreNew Oklahoma abortion law burdensome for women
The following letter-to-the-editor was published in The Daily Oklahoman on 5/15/15 New abortion law burdensome for women Increasing the waiting period for women seeking abortion care from 24 to 72 hours clearly demonstrates that anti-choice politicians in Oklahoma don’t respect women or their ability to make decisions, and don’t understand the realities of women’s…
Read MoreH.B. 465: An Anti-Choice Bill Full of Contradictions
In North Carolina, anti-choice politicians have filed H.B. 465 which will not only extend the state’s waiting period to 72 hours and only allow OB-GYNs to provide abortion care, the bill will also prevent the medical schools at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and East Carolina University from training students on how to…
Read MoreLetter: Further regulations not based in evidence
This weekend, The Advocate posted my letter to the editor on Louisiana’s state health department’s issuing of “emergency” abortion regulations: RH Reality Check posted my op-ed today on the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments in McCullen v. Coakley, a challenge to a Massachusetts buffer zone law: – See more at: http://blog.prochoice.org/#sthash.PLSOfYGo.dpuf Regarding your recent article, New abortion…
Read MoreWaiting for abortion
This weekend, my letter to the editor on Utah’s 72-hour waiting period was published in The Salt Lake City Tribune. Starting this week, Utah now imposes the nation’s longest waiting period on women seeking abortion care. This misguided legislation requiring a woman to wait 72 hours before she can obtain an abortion is burdensome and…
Read MoreFlorida House Attacks Abortion Access
Last night, I issued the following statement on the passage of a Florida House bill that aims to reduce access to abortion care in the state: The Florida legislature is launching an all out attack on abortion providers and the reproductive health care of Florida women and their families. Today, the Florida House passed H.B.…
Read MoreSeries Highlights Impact of Texas Ultrasound Law
In May, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed a bill that requires women seeking abortion care to undergo an ultrasound and listen to an explanation from the doctor about what the image shows. To understand how abortion providers and patients will be affected by the law, The Texas Tribune interviewed Dr. Scott Spear, the medical director…
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