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Legislation
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Comments
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Politics
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| Kansas
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Requires local hospital privileges before an abortion can be performed, establishes meaningful parental consent, stops some insurance funding of abortion, adds ultrasound disclosure, bans webcast abortions, requires facility standards, and prohibits late-term abortions based on fetal pain.[1]
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This may curtail the large numbers traveling from Missouri to have abortions in Kansas, due to its prior lack of protections.
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A Democratic Governor and Attorney General were replaced by Republicans.
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| Indiana
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Defunded Planned Parenthood, including (unlike Kansas and North Carolina) banning funding of Medicaid beneficiaries for services rendered by Planned Parenthood
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Any organization which performs abortions is ineligible to receive tax dollars.
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The Republican Governor Mitch Daniels didn't propose it, but did sign it into law.
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| North Carolina
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Cut off funding for Planned Parenthood, overriding its Democratic Governor's veto to do so
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Became the third state, after Kansas and Indiana above, to terminate this funding for the nation's largest abortion provider
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North Carolina is a must-win state for Obama in 2012, so much so that the Democratic National Convention will be there
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| South Dakota
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Reduces coercive abortions by establishing a 3-day waiting period plus counseling by pregnancy help centers.
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The abortion industry is not fooling any pro-life leaders in South Dakota.
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| Nebraska
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Banned remote webcast abortions and slightly strengthened parental consent.
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| Ohio
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The Ohio House is preparing to vote on three separate abortion-related bills, including one that would impose the strictest limit on the procedure in the nation, such as a law prohibiting abortion if a heartbeat is detected (there are exceptions) [2]
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Governor, House, Senate are all Republican-led assuring legal victories
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| New Jersey
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Cut $7.5 million in funding for Planned Parenthood, despite pro-abortion control of the Democratic legislature; also made "Choose Life" plates available.
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Governor Chris Christie has been good on this issue, although he has not also taken steps to reform the pro-abortion regulations.
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| Utah
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Expanded the freedom of conscience of providers and hospitals to reject abortion.[3]
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Strong leadership in Utah on this issue enables it to benefit from the lowest abortion rate in the nation
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| Texas
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Requires performance of a sonogram for viewing by a woman before she can give consent for an abortion.
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Rick Perry might campaign for president on this issue.
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| Florida
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a weak ultrasound bill (patients can be coached to decline seeing images), a ban on insurance coverage for abortion in a future ObamaCare State exchange, and restrictions on bypass of parental notification for abortions by underage girls; a ban on abortion funding was set for going on the ballot in 2012
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Lots of fanfare, but not much achieved
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Is this the best an all-Republican statehouse and governor can do?
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