Bills like HB 57 are called Targeted
Regulation of Abortion Providers laws.
The film's nationwide release, timed for social impact, comes just as the U.S. Supreme Court takes on Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, the landmark case that will determine the constitutionality of «TRAP» (Targeted
Regulation of Abortion Providers) laws.
In states like Alabama, Mississippi and Texas, TRAP laws (Targeted
Regulation of Abortion Providers) have forced ridiculous rules onto clinics, doctors and patients to ultimately diminish the total number of abortion procedures.
Each year, more Targeted
Regulation of Abortion Provider (TRAP) laws are introduced into state legislatures to further restrict medical professionals from providing safe, legal abortions.
This Saturday night, Sexy Beast, A Benefit for Planned Parenthood will honor Emmy - nominated director Dawn Porter, whose feature new documentary Trapped follows reproductive health clinics struggling to stay open in the face of nearly 300 TRAP laws (Targeted
Regulations of Abortion Providers).
Not exact matches
These
regulations may prohibit qualified
providers from performing
abortions, misinform women
of the risks
of the procedures they are considering, or require medically unnecessary services and delay care, the report says.
Those
regulations will affect more than women's access to early
abortion care, because most
abortion care
providers offer a full array
of safe, affordable, preventive health services, including breast and cervical cancer screening, STD prevention and treatments, and birth control.
Planned Parenthood Federation
of America sharply denounced Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell for signing medically unnecessary and politically motivated
regulations intended to shut down all
abortion providers, which could undermine women's access to reproductive health care
providers in Virginia.
In 2012, Arizona, Michigan and Virginia took steps to establish stringent
regulations that affect only surgical and medication
abortion providers, but not other
providers of outpatient surgical and medical care.
Providers that offer
abortion services or are affiliated with a
provider that does so would be ineligible, as would any entity that makes
abortion referrals — a direct violation
of the federal
regulations governing the Title X program, which require Title X — funded sites to offer nondirective pregnancy - options counseling and referral.
These burdensome and medically unnecessary
regulations that single out
abortion providers need to be recognized as part
of an effort to drastically reduce access to safe and legal
abortion.
Medically unnecessary, burdensome
regulations that single out
abortion providers must be recognized as part
of an effort to drastically reduce access to safe and legal
abortion.
That «clinic
regulation» they speak
of is actually called targeted restrictions on
abortion providers (TRAP) laws.
Until 1987, when the Reagan administration issued the so - called gag rule, that provision consistently had been interpreted as a ban on the use
of Title X funds to pay for
abortions, and the federal
regulations governing Title X did not otherwise reflect an antiabortion animus toward
providers.