Bill requiring face-to-face abortion consult clears Ky. Senate

The Associated Press said the bill will charge Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers a fee for dispensing birth control drugs.

Five Planned Parenthood clinics have closed since Gov. Scott Walker cut off the organization’s state funding in 2011. “What we heard today was testimony about slavery, and 9/11”, he said, referring to testimony from Mr. Koehler that lumped abortion in with both those issues as possible “why” questions that children might ask a parent. “It’s the fact that unborn children, the human fetus, their humanity is not considered to be equal enough to our own in order to be completely protected by law, in order to be completely protected from being killed by abortion”.

The two votes fell along party lines, with majority Republicans prevailing.

While the organization and its affiliates provide abortions, this service makes up only 3 percent of its services, according to the organization’s website.

She urged activists to use any peaceful means necessary to prevent the new Planned Parenthood building from opening, including blocking its doors or handcuffing themselves to construction equipment, using old-school rescue movement tactics.

Planned Parenthood has repeatedly said none of its clinics in the South Atlantic region, which includes the Carolinas, participate in fetal tissue collection.

Hearings began Wednesday on a pair of bills that would spell out how abortion clinics must dispose of fetal remains in the wake of findings from Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine’s office that some had ended up in a Kentucky landfill. That provision was blamed for closing half of the abortion clinics in Texas.

When Rep. John Cortes, D-Kissimmee, said the measure would “revert back to the ’60s” and an era when abortion was outlawed, Diaz defended the proposal. The 43rd anniversary is Friday.

So Aquila’s decision to focus the attention of Catholics on “life”, issues, rather than, say immigration, poverty, or climate change, puts him in the pocket of Republicans-especially given that he made no mention of the death penalty on Saturday, which is a “life” issue embraced by Democrats. The bill now heads to the House of Representatives, where Democrats have often killed bills that seek to restrict access to abortion.

“The Florida Legislature’s actions are imprudent, wasteful and unconstitutional – there is simply no compelling reason to move forward with this legislation until the Supreme Court rules”, said Michelle Richardson, Director of Public Policy for ACLU of Florida.

The state Senate is also set to take up a bill that would expand situations where authorities could conduct strip searches.

Both bills before the House Health and Aging Committee have quickly become priority legislation for Statehouse Republicans.

Since 1998, Kentucky has required women to meet with a physician at least 24 hours before having an abortion.

I fear the author of the letter “No simple choices in the abortion debate” is as obdurate in her beliefs as she accuses us who are anti-abortion of being.

The Center for Medical Progress’ undercover videos allegedly showing medical professionals with Planned Parenthood discussing fetal tissue donations and procedures has provoked the ire of many conservative Kentucky Republican lawmakers.