The bill, believed to be the first of its kind in the country, would require abortion clinics to provide patients with printed information detailing doctors’ educational history, disciplinary and malpractice record, and when they started working at the clinic.
Doctors would also have to disclose whether they have malpractice insurance and admitting privileges at a local hospital, and if they are Kansas residents. Critics argue that such admitting privileges — which many states have sought to mandate — are not only difficult to obtain but medically unnecessary, as abortion clinic patients rarely have to go to a hospital. And due to a number of factors, including a lack of trained and willing local doctors, abortion providers often live far from their clinics or even out of state.
“I think this is a bill that will help women make the right choice or an informed decision,” Republican Sen. Rob Olson told the Kansas City Star.
Republican state Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook added, “Women don’t leave abortion clinics whistling and jumping up and down…. They are in a very vulnerable state because the nature of abortion is ugly and is evil because it kills a human being.”
But other lawmakers condemned the bill as “simply harassment” and “discriminatory,” arguing that doctors who perform other medical procedures doctors are not held to the same standard. And Democratic state Sen. Marci Francisco pointed out that the state legislature routinely uses 10-point font on its bills.
“We should not ask to have someone provide something in a larger font than we provide the information to ourselves and our constituents on bills that are very important,” Francisco told the Associated Press.
The bill is still awaiting the signature of Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, who has signed every abortion restriction that has crossed his desk since he took office in 2011.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit that researches and supports abortion rights, Kansas already has a number of abortion restrictions on the books, including:
- Women must wait 24 hours after getting counseling that describes the details and risks — a requirement critics argue is meant to discourage abortion — before they can receive an abortion.
- Women must also receive ultrasounds of their fetuses, and the provider must offer to show them the ultrasound image.
- Except in medical emergencies, abortion is prohibited at 22 or more weeks after a woman’s last period. Supporters say this is because fetuses can feel pain at this point in their development, a statement that is not backed up by medical research. According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, fetuses generally become viable at 24 weeks.
Source: Vice
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June 2, 2017 at 12:14 pm
Here’s the real reason you’re upset: lots of the killers are hiding their past failures, and to make a living they’ve resorted to killing rather than healing. Adequate doctors do not become killers.
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June 3, 2017 at 3:18 am
Sorry Dunklle you will NEVER understand that these doctor’s are helping women,,,,everyday!! (Because you will never be a woman!!…. faced with a very difficult decision of whether or NOT to terminate/end her pregnancy forever!!)
A “real doctor” will travel to where his patient is to take care of her!!….What you don’t seem to “want to” understand is that these doctor’s could make much more money if they stayed at home and practiced medicine! But they have chosen to help women terminate/end their pregnancy due to medical reasons…or because she became pregnant due to rape! Perhaps she has become pregnant due to failure of her of her birth control method….what ever the reason this is a very difficult decision!!
My question is this?? I have found that in most states with this type of “crazy law” the ANTI-abortion crowd is involved with this type of legislation!! So who will be the “overseer” of this information?? Because you can bet this will have to be approved by someone!! Then I wonder just how long it will take before this information gets into the hands of the “radical ANTI-abortion” crowd and their private practice as well as their families will be threatened!!?? Because ultimately…the goal is to go after the abortion providers…one at a time!!
Because NO matter how hard you try women continue to get abortions so if you go after the MD’s and their personal info gets out there and perhaps their families become exposed and where the “radical ANTI’S” go after them….and they will…someone will get hurt or killed!!
Kansas of all states know this is true…. Dr. George Tiller was MURDERED in his own church on a Sunday!! Have they forgotten about this murder??
This is a ridiculos law that will endanger the physician and is just unnecessary!!
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June 3, 2017 at 10:29 am
“What’s the Matter with Kansas?” was the title of Tom Frank’s book a decade ago, and Kansans indicate it’s still a valid question.
Good to hear from you again, Lorraine! Be gentle with Mr. Dunkle. He’s still waiting for that first fetus to thank him for the “rescue,” because he knows it’s truly a person. At least, someone who’s truly a person would thank her rescuer. That’s why he’s still waiting…
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June 5, 2017 at 1:25 am
LOL!!
That is very true Chuck!!
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June 6, 2017 at 5:17 am
Well son of a gun, a prodeather who make me comfortable by signing her full real name — Lorraine D Maguire. I’ve been away and I was just absorbing today’s post about the prolifers in Hartford Ct. that I will forward to my daughter who lives near there, who is kinda prodeath, and whom I love more than my life.
Anyway, Lorraine, wonderful you’re here. Chuckles remembers you but I don’t. And you say some tough stuff. Right up my alley. I have to hit the mill; otherwise I’d say more. Later for that.
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June 6, 2017 at 8:50 am
Just got back from the mill. Not a great day. Saved only two people from being murdered.
I’ll start by answering your question, Lorraine — “…who will be the “overseer” of this information??” I will.
More later I hope.
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June 6, 2017 at 1:48 pm
Sometimes, as here, I miss Chuck’s point, so let me get back to Lorraine (and now I believe I’m starting to remember her, an articulate young lady from long ago): “ultimately…the goal is to go after the abortion providers…one at a time!!”
That’s not my goal and I’m the one who goes after them, at their homes, every Sunday, with my “A KILLER LIVES HERE sign. My goal is to save as many lives as I can. One way to do that is to go after the killers.
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June 6, 2017 at 10:19 am
So, you just “rescued” two “unborn innocents,” Mr. Dunkle. Congratulations!
They’ll be coming out of the Baby Store soon enough. Please indicate which two they will be from the parade of newborns:
THE BABY STORE:
This story is not told by so-called “pro-lifers”:
In America, a child is born approximately every nine seconds, about 7 per minute, about 400 per hour, 96,000 per day, 3.5 million every year.
Imagine if you will these newborns coming out of the Baby Store, most of them brought out by a parent (in half the cases, two parents). Every nine seconds, the door opens up and a new baby comes out.
Due to the sheer force of probability, each one of them has a destiny fairly well shaped for it as soon as its mother decides to carry it to term:
•Every eighteen seconds a child is born who for most of his life will barely, if at all, know his biological father
•Every 27 seconds, a baby is born whose parents never intended for him to exist
•Every thirty-six seconds, a baby is born who will not graduate high school
•Every thirty-six seconds, a child is born to a life without health insurance
•Every thirty-six seconds, a baby is born who will live in a family with an alcoholic parent
•Every forty-five seconds a child will be born to live in poverty
•Every sixty-three seconds a child is born who will be left alone at home unsupervised between the ages of five and fourteen
•Every eighty-one seconds a baby is born who will come home after school to an empty house
•Of the ten babies born every minute and a half, four are born to mothers weren’t “elated about their condition.”
•Every minute and a half a baby is born whose family pays more than half of its income for rent- two and a half times the national average
•Every minute and a half a baby will be born to a child
•Every minute and a half, a child is born who will experience lifelong depression
•Every minute and forty-five seconds a child will be born at an extremely low birth weight, at risk for school failure and for a felony conviction
•Every two minutes and twelve seconds, a girl baby will be born whose sexual abuse will begin at about age two and continue until about age 14
•Every three minutes, a girl will be born who will herself become a pregnant teenager
• Every three minutes, a child is born who will live in a household with no parent present
• Every three minutes and 18 seconds a boy will be born to suffer sexual abuse
•Every five minutes a child will be born who will run away from home. Almost every other child will be running away because of intolerable family conditions
•Every six minutes and forty-five seconds a child will be born who will have to receive state custody to protect him from his own parents
•Every twenty-two minutes and 20 seconds a child will be born who will go to jail
•Every hour, a baby will be born to die within the first year of life
• Every hour and fifty minutes, a child will be born to die from a gunshot wound
• Every third hour, a baby will be born severely damaged for life by alcohol while in his mother’s womb
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June 6, 2017 at 2:10 pm
It’s not due to senescence that you consistently “miss my point,” Mr. Dunkle. It is the primary characteristic of the “pro-life” syndrome that you and your ilk) simply CANNOT bring yourselves to consider the needs of real children.
If you DID do that, you would be faced with a terrible dilemma– whether to continue in promoting forced childbirth through your well-established PR campaign or to dedicate yourself to protecting real human lives.
To put it more succinctly, you would have to choose between your hatred of abortion and your proclaimed care for human life: And to choose to continue your hatred of abortion would mean you deliberately choose to let children be exposed to years of avoidable cruelty and suffering.
Those of you who are really severely crippled by the condition are compelled to ignore real children’s needs.
Those of you who are not crippled would choose to focus on real children.
Your feigned incomprehension puts you in the first group. Sad, but there it is.
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June 7, 2017 at 4:40 am
Lorraine, David, help me out here. What’s Chuck’s point?
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June 7, 2017 at 10:24 am
Feigned obtuseness. Works for you every time, Mr. Dunkle!
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June 7, 2017 at 12:44 pm
Whadaya mean works. They haven’t even answered!
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