From the Guttmacher Institute (Advancing sexual and reproductive health worldwide through research, policy analysis, and public education):
http://www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/updates/2011/statetrends12011.html
To date (Mid 2011?), legislators have introduced 916 measures related to reproductive health and rights in the 49 legislatures that have convened their regular sessions. (Louisiana’s legislature will not convene until late April.) By the end of March, seven states had enacted 15 new laws on these issues, including provisions that:
*expand the pre-abortion waiting period requirement in South Dakota to make it more onerous than that in any other state, by extending the time from 24 hours to 72 hours and requiring women to obtain counseling from a crisis pregnancy center in the interim;
*expand the abortion counseling requirement in South Dakota to mandate that counseling be provided in-person by the physician who will perform the abortion and that counseling include information published after 1972 on all the risk factors related to abortion complications, even if the data are scientifically flawed;
*require the health departments in Utah and Virginia to develop new regulations governing abortion clinics;
*revise the Utah abortion refusal clause to allow any hospital employee to refuse to “participate in any way” in an abortion;
*limit abortion coverage in all private health plans in Utah, including plans that will be offered in the state’s health exchange; and
*revise the Mississippi sex education law to require all school districts to provide abstinence-only sex education while permitting discussion of contraception only with prior approval from the state.
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