Six of these states (AL, ID, IN, KS, MO and OK), all of which adopted restrictions on abortions performed later in pregnancy (see above), moved to
require abortion providers to report a diagnosis when an abortion is performed at or beyond 20 weeks» gestation.
Legislation to
require abortion providers to have hospital admitting privileges was introduced in five states and enacted in three; this provision is not mandated for other outpatient surgical and medical providers.
In addition, laws adopted in Louisiana and Oklahoma
require abortion providers to make the fetal heartbeat audible to the woman prior to an abortion.
Some states
require abortion providers to provide women with written or verbal information suggesting that abortion increases a woman's risk of breast cancer or mental illness, despite the lack of valid scientific evidence of increased risk.
The North Carolina provision
requires abortion providers who believe that a woman might be the victim of domestic violence to provide her with information about available social services.
The other three new provisions (in AZ, FL and KS), all of which are in effect,
require the abortion provider to offer the woman the opportunity to view the image or listen to a verbal description of it.
«As the County Board of Health pointed out, there is no public health value, nor support from the medical community, including the medical professionals on that Board, for a county ordinance
requiring abortion providers to have hospital admitting privileges.»
The Arizona legislature recently enacted a law
requiring abortion providers to follow an outdated FDA protocol for medication abortion that is more than 15 years old — and the governor signed it just days after the FDA updated its protocol.
Not exact matches
According to the ethics report, physicians objecting to
abortion or contraception must refer patients desiring such services to other
providers (recommendation # 4); may not argue or advocate their views on these matters though they are
required to provide prior notice to their patients of their moral commitments (recommendation # 3); and, in emergency cases or in situations that might negatively affect patient physical or mental health, they must actually provide contraception and / or perform
abortions (recommendation # 5, emphasis added).
The 2011 law
requires providers to stick to US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines for
abortion by medication.
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.
Today the women's health care
providers who jointly filed suit last month on behalf of their patients have filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate an injunction granted by U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel on October 28 blocking a Texas provision
requiring doctors who provide
abortions to obtain admitting privileges at a local hospital — a requirement that leading medical associations oppose and only results in women losing access to safe medical care.
This policy
requires doctors who object to providing medical care on the basis of religious or conscientious grounds (such as medical assistance in dying,
abortion, birth control and gender confirmation surgery) to connect the patient with a person or agency who will either provide care or connect the patient with a willing
provider of the service requested.
This policy
requires doctors who object to providing medical care on the basis of religious or conscientious grounds (such as medical assistance in dying — «MAID» — but also
abortion, birth control and gender confirmation surgery) to connect the patient with a person or agency who will either provide care or connect the patient with a willing
provider of the service requested.
A new provision in Texas
requires that women who live less than 100 miles from an
abortion provider obtain counseling in person at the facility at least 24 hours in advance.
Kansas and Indiana moved to
require that
abortion providers have admitting privileges at a local hospital, something that has proven difficult to obtain in other states, often because of antipathy toward
abortion providers.
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.
The new law in Virginia also
requires providers to give women the option to hear a fetal heartbeat in advance of having an
abortion.
Abortion providers in Texas are required to notify a parent, legal guardian or custodian of a minor's decision to have an a
Abortion providers in Texas are
required to notify a parent, legal guardian or custodian of a minor's decision to have an
abortionabortion.
For several years, Ohio has
required that
abortion providers maintain a written transfer agreement with a local public hospital.
SB 1722 / HB 1411 significantly impacts women's access to
abortion care with over 10 changes to current regulations by
requiring medically unnecessary admitting privileges or transfer agreements for
abortion providers.
In Arizona, the legislature has amended state law to
require that
providers follow the regimen outlined on the old label for medication
abortion, regardless of scientific evidence and the new FDA - approved label.
The rule tossed out by Trump
required state and local governments to distribute federal dollars for family planning services, including contraception, sexually transmitted diseases, fertility, pregnancy care and breast and cervical cancer screening, to qualified health
providers, irrespective of whether the
providers also performed
abortions.
These onerous and medically unnecessary regulations on
abortion providers include
requiring that hallways in a health center measure a certain width.
In August, lawmakers passed legislation
requiring insurance
providers to fully cover all reproductive health services — including
abortion.
Require providers to inform a woman seeking an
abortion whether the
abortion provider has admitting privileges at a nearby hospital as well as medical malpractice insurance (Kansas)