Actually, there are laws on the books stating that a doctor or nurse with "moral reservations" about it doesn't have to perform the procedure at all. Tangential to this bill, though, as this ganks funding from non-abortion programs, and can be expected to eff-up all those low-cost pap smears and cervical exams that Planned Parenthood offers, and that even "good chaste Christian women" should be getting, as they are recommended for all women, sexually active or not. And that's the bulk of what PP offers; abortion services are (depending on source) less than 5% or less than 3% of what PP does...so what the fine, upstanding Reps are really doing with this bill is pulling the carpet out from under the major source of preventative care for low-income women across the nation. Really classy, yeah?
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