What Wisconsins Insane Abortion Bill Could Mean For Womens Health
What Wisconsin’s Insane Abortion Bill Could Mean For Women’s Health
Wisconsin has become the latest US state to take up a draconian antiabortion bill. Lawmakers are considering legislation that would prevent the state-funded university from providing resident physicians with abortion-procedure training.
On July 18, state Republicans held a public hearing to debate the bill, which would bar University of Wisconsin physicians from providing abortion training anywhere other than a hospital. Crucially, OB-GYN residents in Wisconsin need to complete abortion training to be accredited by the state. The university warned this week that, if passed, the bill could not only drive potential students away from the school's medical program, but could also make abortions — and women's health care, in general — even more difficult to obtain in the state.
Elizabeth Nash, a policy analyst at the reproductive-rights think-tank Guttmacher Institute, points out that just four percent of abortions are performed in hospitals. "The vast majority of abortions take place in a clinic setting," she tells POPSUGAR. "Having that kind of caveat around hospitals [in the bill] doesn't really preserve any option."
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Performing abortions at University of Wisconsin is already illegal, and medical staff train residents at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Madison, the state capital. But supporters of Assembly Bill 206, which was introduced in April, want restrictions to go even further.
"Currently, Planned Parenthood pays the UW for the provision of abortion by the UW doctors, contractually acting as UW doctors at Planned Parenthood's abortion facility," the bill's author, Representative Andre Jacque, said on Monday. James Linn, an OB-GYN from Milwaukee, said at the hearing that Wisconsin employees and taxpayers "should not be compliant or complacent in the killing of innocent human beings."
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