Six anti-choice bills in Louisiana in 2014

[MountainLaurel]

HB 388: Requires doctors to have admitting privileges at a local hospital before
performing abortions
Author: Rep. Katrina Jackson
Committee: House Health and Welfare
http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=224171

HB 348: Prohibits termination of life-sustaining procedures for pregnant women
Author: Rep. Austin Badon
Committee: House Health and Welfare
http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=875039&n=HB348%20Original

HB 305: Prohibits providers of elective abortions and their affiliates from delivering any instruction or materials in schools
Author: Rep. Hoffman
Committee: House Health and Welfare
http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=874249

HB 727: Requires provision of psychological health information prior to abortion
Author: Rep. Barry Ivey (District 65: East Baton Rouge Parish)
Committee: House and Welfare
http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=224686

HB 401: Makes publicizing the availability of abortion services a crime and the advertising or distributing of any “drug, potion, instrument, or article for the purpose of procuring an abortion” a crime.
Author: Rep. Barras
Committee: House Government Affairs
http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=876436

HB 590: (Constitutional Amendment) Prohibits the use of public monies for abortion and provision of public monies to providers of abortion except as may be required by the federal government as a condition of federal financial participation in a public medical assistance program
Author: Rep. Lance Harris
Committee: House Appropriations
http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=224549

[uppityperson]

1. HB 305 means PP can't distribute contraception educational materials.

HB 388: Requires doctors to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. Places undue burden upon providers. Is every other type doctor required to have hosp admitting privileges before doing colonoscopies or placement of ear tubes or prescribing medicine?

HB 727. WTF. What "increased risks"?

Prior to undergoing an elective abortion as defined in R.S. 40:1299.35.1,
and as a condition for consent to the abortion to be deemed voluntary and informed,
a physician shall obtain a signed statement on a form to be prepared by and obtained
from the Department of Health and Hospitals and kept within the woman's medical
record for a period of at least seven years, stating that the woman has been given
information on resources that she can review to learn the increased risks of
psychiatric and psychological harms associated with abortion

HB 348: Prohibits termination of life-sustaining procedures for pregnant women
So, one case wasn't enough? Forced incubator bs.

HB 401. You can't advertise. Can pharmacies be fined for providing legally prescribed medicines? And since the morning after pill is a couple common OC's, and OC's can be used as morning after pill, are they going to be illegal?

Abortion advertising
Abortion advertising is the placing or carrying of any advertisement of abortion services by the publicizing of the availability of abortion services.
(clip)
Distribution of abortifacients
Distribution of abortifacients is the intentional:
(1) Distribution or advertisement for distribution of any drug, potion,
instrument, or article for the purpose of procuring an abortion; or
(2) Publication of any advertisement or account of any secret drug or
nostrum purporting to be exclusively for the use of females, for preventing
conception or producing abortion or miscarriage.
B. Whoever commits the crime of distribution of abortifacients shall be fined
not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or
both.

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MountainLaurel]

2. An update

The first two bills are now in the Senate. The second passed the house with NO OPPOSITION. No one stood up and said that forcing a family to leave a woman on life support to act as an incubator is wrong.