SEA 546, passed in the 2015 legislative session, takes effect July 1, 2015 and
requires abortion facilities that provide only non-surgical abortions to obtain an abortion clinic license from the Indiana State Department of Health.
Not exact matches
Earlier this month, the Texas legislature approved a loudly - debated package of restrictions on
abortions in the Lone Star State; among other things,
requiring abortion clinics to bring their
facilities in line with surgical standards and banning
abortions after 20 weeks.
It took him a few days before he released a statement on the recent Supreme Court decision Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, which struck down Texas legislation
requiring better regulation of
abortion facilities.
The ordinance, which never went into effect, would have
required crisis - pregnancy
facilities to disclose that they don't actually provide
abortions or birth control.
Nineteen states
require a physician to be physically present to provide mifepristone — the only medication specifically approved by the FDA for use in medication
abortions — and 17 states
require medication
abortions to be performed in a
facility with attributes of an ambulatory surgery center or hospital.
In the most egregious of the waiting period provisions, a new South Dakota law would have
required a woman to obtain pre-
abortion counseling in person at the
abortion facility at least 72 hours prior to the procedure; it would also have
required her to visit a state - approved crisis pregnancy center during that 72 - hour interval.
Under SEA 371, the Lafayette health center would have been
required to meet the same standards as a
facility that offers surgical
abortions, even though no surgical procedures are offered there.
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.
With the addition of the new requirements in Texas and North Carolina, 26 states mandate that a woman seeking an
abortion must wait a prescribed period of time between the counseling and the procedure; nine of these states require that the counseling be provided in person, a provision that requires the woman to make two trips to the facility (see Counseling and Waiting Periods for Ab
abortion must wait a prescribed period of time between the counseling and the procedure; nine of these states
require that the counseling be provided in person, a provision that
requires the woman to make two trips to the
facility (see Counseling and Waiting Periods for
AbortionAbortion).
A new provision in Virginia
requires a
facility providing at least five
abortions per month to meet the requirements for a hospital in the state.