Posted on 01/26/2015 3:30:34 PM PST by Morgana
Lobbyist at March for Life: Anti-webcam abortions state legislation being finalized - Members - Mobile Adv
BOISE — Right to Life of Idaho is finalizing state draft legislation that would ban “webcam abortions” in Idaho, a lobbyist for the anti-abortion group said Saturday.
Co-sponsors of the nascent anti-abortion legislation at the Idaho Legislature include Rep. Tom Loertscher, R-Iona, and Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll, R-Cottonwood, said Right to Life of Idaho lobbyist Kerry Uhlenkott after an anti-abortion demonstration in downtown Boise on Saturday afternoon.
“We’re just putting some final tweaks on the bill, and then we should be good to go for a print hearing,” said Uhlenkott.
Uhlenkott said Right to Life of Idaho has been told that the measure would be introduced in the House State Affairs Committee chaired by Loertscher.
Uhlenkott also said in an interview that Right to Life of Idaho has gathered from undisclosed sources evidence that Planned Parenthood wants to open webcam facilities here in Idaho sometime during 2015.
During a speech outside the Idaho Capitol building, Uhlenkott described webcam abortion as a potentially dangerous procedure in which physicians instruct pregnant women via videoconferencing to take abortion-inducing drugs.
“Abortion done by remote control can be very dangerous to the health of the mother, and it’s always fatal to the child and it can be fatal to the mother as well,” Uhlenkott said during her speech. “Our plans are to ban webcam abortions here in Idaho.”
Saturday’s anti-abortion rally sponsored by the Knights of Columbus — a fraternal Catholic organization — started at Boise’s Julia Davis Park. Marchers moved through downtown Boise, and the event concluded with speeches on the south steps of the Idaho Capitol building.
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FWIW I think this is the wrong tactic...
1.) Let them continue prescribing drugs without a direct examination of the patient that can kill the patient through negligence (in the case of an ectopic pregnancy) and THEN sue them out of existence...
2.) Write the statute more broadly to cover prescribing any potentially deadly medication in this way..
3.) (my favorite) DO BOTH , sue them until the law passes and then monitor their compliance....
Why give the pro-abortionists an argument where they can appear to be singled out by the conservative meanies ... make them join the greater medical community and force them to commit to the standards of patient care that all others must. I see it as less likely to be successfully challenged while getting the same results.
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