1st quarter of 2015, legislators introduced 791 provisions related to sexual and reproductive health

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Guttmacher Institute
TRENDS IN THE STATES: FIRST QUARTER 2015
 
By the end of the first quarter of the year, legislators had introduced 791 provisions related to sexual and reproductive health and rights. Nearly 42% of these provisions (332 provisions) seek to restrict access to abortion services; abortion restrictions have been introduced in 43 states. By April 1, 53 abortion restrictions had been approved by a legislative chamber, and nine had been enacted. Many of the new abortion restrictions enacted this year would either limit the use of medication abortion (Arkansas and Idaho) or ban abortion at 20 weeks postfertilization (West Virginia), a disturbing combination of attempts to curtail access in both the early and later months of pregnancy, potentially leaving women with fewer options and a greatly reduced time frame to get the care they need. 

Abortion opponents’ assault on medication abortion, a procedure that likely has helped women obtain abortion care earlier in pregnancy and now accounts for nearly one-quarter of all non-hospital abortions, is continuing apace in 2015. So far this year, Arkansas enacted a new law requiring abortion providers to follow the outdated protocol included in the FDA-approved labeling for medication abortion that is more expensive, carries a higher risk of side effects, and requires more clinic visits than does the widely used evidence-based protocol; in addition, the FDA regimen can only be used during the first 49 days of pregnancy, compared with 63 days for the evidence-based protocol. North Dakota, Ohio and Texas have similar laws (see Medication Abortion).

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[Thinkingabout]

1. 791 provisions which helped women, huh, probably sponsored by men. Yes, the war is on

women, this is proof, the GOP should spend some time educating their members.

[tblue37]

2. KnR for visibility. nt

[Grey]

3. war on Women, have they no shame? nt

[Sherman A1]

4. Unless they are peering into

our bedrooms, these clowns are simply not happy....

[historylovr]

5. K & R

791 provisions to regulate women. Where's the outrage?

[justhanginon]

6. Maybe they need to talk to someone in the mental health

field about what has obviously become an unhealthy obsession.
Between them and the right wing fundies they seem to spend an awful lot of time worrying about women's reproductive matters that they obviously do not seem to fully understand. Maybe they could consult with women's healthcare specialists and spend less time on what they see as a religious crusade or as sane people refer to it, the ongoing war against women.

[valerief]

7. Well, when you hate women, this is what you get. Women hater laws.

Here's the whole episode in color.

[rladdi]

8. This information should show the people of the states that the Republicans mind set is

on a limited social issue, Abortion and birth control. They know, or think they know, nothing else. For the 2016 election the GOP must be given a sounding defeat. For the past few years, the voters have given the states and communities to the Republicans to control. In doing so, the only bills they pass are those that suppress certain citizens.
They never pass bills in the states for highway safety, or cleaner states. It is all about sex bills and guns.
The voters have given a few crazy Republicans the right to rule us.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. I'd bet that 99.2% or more were introduced by Republicans.

[blkmusclmachine]

10. http://www.eclectablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/war_on_women1.jpg

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11. http://vscdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Stew_War-on-Women-Graphic.png

[DebJ]

12. Thanks. I'm stealing that............