I’m playing my favorite word game against my favorite opponent Mariah. First, Mariah defeated me with the word “abortion.” In the next game, I defeated Mariah with the word “zygotes.” But in the following game she came at me with the word “embryonal,” and I lost again.
I’m beginning to wonder if Maria was one of the women sitting next to me at the prepared birth class today.
Have you heard that:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/13/texas-abortion-providers/2514783/
HOUSTON (AP) — Dr. Howard Novick winces as he recalls treating two and three women a week for infections and complications from botched abortions. It was the early 1970s, before the procedure was legalized, and the experience persuaded him to devote his life to this area of medicine.
Now, more than 40 years later, new abortion restrictions passed by the Texas Legislature could force Novick to close the Houston abortion clinic he opened in 1980 because, he says, he does not have $1 million to $1.5 million to convert his run-of-the-mill medical office into a fully loaded surgical center with wide corridors and sophisticated air-flow systems.
The legislation, passed late Friday following weeks of mass protests and a high-profile filibuster, allows abortions only in surgical centers, requires doctors who perform them to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, dictates when abortion pills are taken and bans abortions after 20 weeks unless the woman’s life is in imminent danger.
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The new requirements may not survive a court challenge. They conflict with the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that established a woman’s right to get an abortion until her fetus could viably survive outside the womb at about 22 to 24 weeks of pregnancy.
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About 72,500 abortions are performed annually in Texas, according to the state Health Department. The busiest clinics do up to 4,000 a year. Now the remaining surgical centers will have to conduct about 14,400 each year.
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