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Legislation
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Politics
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| Russia
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"The changes require abortion providers to devote 10 percent of any advertising to describing the dangers of abortion to a woman’s health, and the changes make it illegal to describe abortion as a safe medical procedure."[1]
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Russian politicians indicated that more pro-life laws will be passed too.
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A bit ironic? The communist Soviet Union had the highest abortion rate in the world.
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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, prohibits late-term abortions based on fetal pain, and prohibits abortion unless the abortionist has hospital privileges within 30 miles in order to handle complications.[2]
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The bill SB 36, signed into law in May 2011, contains many of these reforms. The provisions, if ultimately enforced, 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. The Democratic Governor also vetoed a sonogram law and a requirement of a 24-hour waiting period after state-mandated counseling before having an abortion, and legislature seems to be one vote short of being able to override.[3]
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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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House and Senate have passed a ban on abortion after 20 weeks gestation, which would affect about 600 abortions annually.[4] The House also passed a bill prohibiting abortion if a heartbeat is detected (there are exceptions), which could become the strongest pro-life law in the nation.[5]
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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.[6]
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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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