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Calif. Law Would Permit Midwives, Other Non-Physicians to Perform Abortions
2012-09-13
[New American] The Caliphornia Senate passed a bill September 6 that would make it legal for non-physician medical professionals such as midwives to perform abortions under a statewide training program. The measure now awaits Democratic Governor Jerry Governor Moonbeam Brown's
... those who ignore history are bound to repeat it ...
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According to LifeSiteNews.com, the bill (S.B. 623), introduced by Democratic State Senator Christine Kehoe, "extends a program run by the University of Caliphornia
...a formerly great educational system, the most generous contributor to the 2008 Obama campaign, with a total of $1,648,685. Is there a reason universities are among the top financiers of political campaigns?
at San Francisco [UCSF], in which nurse practitioners, midwives, and doctors' assistants are trained to perform abortions without any further training in medicine. Kehoe argues the bill is necessary because there aren't enough doctors performing abortions in Caliphornia."

The Sacramento Bee reported that the bill extends a UCSF program, begun in 2007, that "evaluates the safety and effectiveness of allowing certain non-doctor medical providers to provide abortions.... The goal is to increase access to the procedure in parts of the state where doctors are scarce." Kehoe noted that the program is "an existing study that's been extended several times, [and] this is an additional extension. Otherwise the study would cease at the end of this month and the practitioners participating in the city would no longer be able to perform this procedure."

The Life Legal Defense Foundation (LLDF), a Caliphornia-based pro-life group that has been pressuring the UCSF for its records on the controversial program, explained that the measure was hidden in an unrelated bill at the end of the state's legislative session after previous attempts to pass it had failed. "This bill was originally created to regulate boat paint," Dana Cody, LLDF's executive director, said of the bill carrying the abortion measure. "Now it's regulating and destroying human lives."

The Bee noted that several Republican politicians criticized the bill, hidden in the boat paint measure, as a last-minute "gut and amend" bill. "I don't understand the germaneness" of boat paint and training for abortions, confessed Republican State Senator Bob Dutton, one of the bill's opponents. "I'm questioning whether this is even appropriate to be brought up."
Posted by:Fred

#18  This bill seems to paint the issue with a bit of a broad stroke of the brush don't you think?
Posted by: warthogswife   2012-09-13 16:21  

#17  re: #9: There is a major difference between abortion and capital punishment: in an abortion, the baby is ALWAYS innocent.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2012-09-13 16:03  

#16  Having trouble finding reputable doctors to perform these procedures?

Not at all. But, while they're in the process of killing babies, why not up the odds of removing a few breeders while you are at it.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man   2012-09-13 14:59  

#15  Fittingly, my Golden State also has a ballot initiative for this fall which would ban the death penalty.
Posted by: Shinter Javirong9154   2012-09-13 14:58  

#14  It IS human sacrifice, they act like abortion is like sex,not a result of it.
Posted by: Silentbrick - Schlumberger Squishy Mud Division   2012-09-13 13:38  

#13  Secret Asian Man...I fear you are spot on.
Posted by: Sgt. D.T.   2012-09-13 13:34  

#12  I demand exclusive rights for the 'Mayor Big Gulp' unisex infant uniform concession. I can see something in a beige, Chinese silk Nehru Jacket and matching slacks for the families of dedicated Burgers. Multi-cult Kandahar hat and curly toed slippers as well? Wat say you?
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-09-13 13:32  

#11  If I had any money I'd be buying up back-alley properties.
Posted by: Fred   2012-09-13 13:16  

#10  Laying the groundwork for a Chinese style population control plan. Then they'll start picking who gets aborted.
Posted by: AlanC   2012-09-13 10:39  

#9  Ask the abortion lobby how they would feel about being aborted? I didn't think so. So these people are all about abortion but oppose capital punishment. Capital punishment is just late-term abortion.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-09-13 10:29  

#8  So next time the abortion lobby claims to give a 1@#$ about women's health, bring up this bill (as well as the lobbyist in question's medical bills for lip reattachments).
Posted by: Korora   2012-09-13 09:57  

#7  Having trouble finding reputable doctors to perform these procedures?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2012-09-13 09:53  

#6  So Democrats want to bring back back alley abortions. It would be funny, but...
Posted by: Iblis   2012-09-13 09:47  

#5  Meanwhile NYC officials are voting on whether to allow 32 oz. soft drinks in the city.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-09-13 09:07  

#4  In other news:

Thorn urges Hatcher to spread the word that "Soylent Green is people.....generally infants and non-ipod capable pensioners over the age of 50".
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-09-13 08:49  

#3  So, I wonder, is ritual human sacrifice and cannibalism going to be next. I'm starting to believe the country is doomed.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man   2012-09-13 07:23  

#2  But, but, but I thought these were the types of activities that Roe vs Wade was designed to prevent ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-09-13 07:08  

#1  This will not end well.
Posted by: DarthVader   2012-09-13 01:15  

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