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tazzygirl -> Indiana and abortions (3/9/2011 8:47:02 PM)
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Indiana is trying to pass a law declaring all women who have abortions must be told that abortions are linked to breast cancer....
.......................despite what the medical research states.
About 500 demonstrators gathered on the Statehouse lawn to oppose efforts to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood, and to protest a bill that would make abortions illegal after 20 weeks and require that women seeking abortions be told the procedure could cause breast cancer.
The rally was aimed at Indiana legislators who strongly oppose abortion and who have two years to translate those feelings into state law.
"One hundred and eighteen of Indiana's lawmakers are male," said Planned Parenthood of Indiana President Betty Cockrum. "Only one is a doctor. But oh, how they love to pretend they know what's best for us, those anti-choice men."
"The vast majority of both the Senate and House are pro-life legislators, and I think we truly represent Hoosier constituents," said Rep. Eric Turner, R-Cicero, who authored HB 1210, the bill that would make abortions illegal after 20 weeks. Current state law bans it after the fetus is viable, which a doctor determines, generally around 24 weeks.
Turner's measure also would require abortion providers to tell patients that abortion carries risks including the possibility of breast cancer -- a claim disputed by the American Cancer Society -- and require a woman seeking abortions to view an ultrasound picture of the fetus unless she stated in writing that she did not want to.
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"There's virtually nothing to stop these now that there's a Republican majority in both houses and a Republican governor," said Robert Dion, political science professor at the University of Evansville.
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Rep Robert Morris, R-Fort Wayne, who opposes both abortion and premarital sex, stopped by the demonstration and pronounced it a "travesty." He said better education on the part of parents would help prevent unwanted pregnancies.
"Our country needs to get back to basic morality about teaching youth and teaching our kids the consequences, what happens if you have sex outside of marriage."
Timothy O'Donnell, Fishers, said he believed Pence's efforts to defund Planned Parenthood do not go far enough. He said all abortion providers should lose funding.
Among the demonstrators was Indianapolis City-County Council member Jackie Nytes.
She said she was troubled by the fact that a Senate committee voted down a Democratic amendment that would have required that all information given to women seeking abortions had to be "medically and scientifically accurate."
Studies touted by the Republican National Coalition for Life cite a connection between abortion and breast cancer. However, several studies touted by the American Cancer Society dispute any clear link between breast cancer and abortion.
"If the information was all medically correct, then they should have voted for the amendment," Nytes said. "By voting down the amendment, it looks to me like an admission that there is information being shared that is not medically correct."
http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20110309/NEWS01/103090314/1002/rss
This law would also defund much of Planned Parenthood. But, to lie to women... and feel morally superior in doing so...
~sighs
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