Not exact matches
Roe VS. Wade will still not be overturned (even if
abortion became illegal there were many safe
doctor induced
abortions long before
abortion became «
legal»).
In fact,
abortion turns out to be pretty much what we should have expected in 1972: a nasty but
legal business in which a handful of failed
doctors offer the clinical murder of babies as an expensive form of contraception.
So sex - selective
abortions are, indirectly,
legal, if the woman's
doctors feel» as one suspects they nearly always will» that having a child of a sex she doesn't want will cause her mental harm.
In 1971, together with the
doctor she worked for, Merle Hoffman started Choices, the first
legal clinic in the United States to provide
abortions.
The medical profession appears to be divided, the researchers note, not just in its attitudes about providing controversial practices such as terminal sedation,
abortion or birth control for teens, but also in its judgments about what
doctors should do when patients request a
legal procedure to which their
doctor objects.
Foes of safe,
legal abortion also have stepped up their use of state legislation to thwart personal, private medical decisions about pregnancy that are best left between a woman and her
doctor.
Richards, in written testimony, called the videos «a deliberate and systematic effort by (CMP Director) David Daleiden and other opponents of safe and
legal abortion to infiltrate our health centers, try to entrap our staff into potentially illegal conduct, and create discredited,
doctored videos designed to smear Planned Parenthood.»
Doctors, nurses, and medical assistants provide critical reproductive health care every day — including safe,
legal abortion — and they should be able to enter their workspace safely.
While our opponents have been working to create scandal and panic where none exists,
doctors and nurses at Planned Parenthood health centers have continued to provide care to thousands of women, men and young people every day — contraception, cancer screenings, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and safe and
legal abortion.