Dear Prolife Colleague AAPLOG does not view elective induced convenience abortion as “healthcare.” Pregnancy is not a disease. Compounding this assault on women’s “healthcare” is the practice of non-physicians doing the procedure. (and, in Iowa, the “physician,” being nowhere near the woman, using telemed abortions to prescribe the abortion pill “mifeprex.”) Here is a judicial decision in which the abortionist is held at least to the standard of care that physicians doing a legitimate procedure would be held to. Does this legitimize abortion? Not for those of us who believe purposefully killing the innocent unborn is wrong. But in the real (ugly) world, it is a medical safety measure for the 24,000 women each week who choose to have a legal abortion. As physicians, we grieve for the women (and their babies) who make this destructive choice. As physicians, we are glad to see restraint against flagrant healthcare abuses toward women. ARIZONA WOMEN PROTECTED: NEW SAFETY MEASURES PROHIBIT NON-DOCTORS FROM PERFORMING ABORTIONS A Superior Court judge denied Planned Parenthood’s motion to block abortion clinic regulations from taking effect this Monday. These regulations were passed more than 10 years ago by the state Legislature after Lou Anne Herron’s tragic death in an Arizona abortion clinic. The rules ensure, among other things, that non-doctors may not perform surgical abortions. The abortion industry has held up these regulations in court for the past decade. The health and safety regulations that are slated to take effect November 1, 2010, include: • A doctor must estimate the gestational age of the pre-born baby. • A doctor must perform a physical examination on the woman to determine if she is healthy enough for the surgery. • A doctor is the only one who may perform surgery. • A doctor with admitting privileges at an accredited hospital is at the clinic in case of an emergency. • A doctor must remain on the premises of the clinic until all patients are stable and ready to be discharged. To read the full regulations that go into effect on November 1, click here: http://bit.ly/aaFooW. Women’s health and safety is best protected by having a licensed physician involved from the moment they are admitted to a clinic to when they are discharged. Arizona has witnessed the dangers women face when they are operated on and treated by under-qualified medical personnel. Judge Donald Daughton denied Planned Parenthood’s emergency motion to amend their complaint late Wednesday, opening the door for these common-sense regulations to take effect. To read Judge Daughton’s decision, click here: http://bit.l/9h6rxQ. The abortion clinic regulations that the Arizona Legislature passed 10 years ago are based on Planned Parenthood’s own policies. CAP President Cathi Herrod asks, “If Planned Parenthood claims to care about women’s health and safety, why fight safety measures that provide women with the typical standard of care?”
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