Radical Republicans

[Teatownclown]

GOP Senator Pushes Radical Bill To Restrict Discussion Of Abortion Over The Internet

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/10/19/347993/jim-demint-prohibit-internet-abortion-discussion/

Instead of focusing on job creation, congressional Republicans have spent their time passing socially conservative legislation like the "Let Women Die" bill that would allow hospitals that receive federal funds to deny women life-saving abortion procedures.
Now Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), one of the most die-hard anti-choice lawmakers, has jumped on the bandwagon by sneaking a radical anti-abortion amendment onto a completely unrelated piece of legislation. DeMint's amendment would ban women and their doctors from discussing abortion over the Internet:
Anti-choice Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) just filed an anti-choice amendment to a bill related to agriculture, transportation, housing, and other programs. The DeMint amendment could bar discussion of abortion over the Internet and through videoconferencing, even if a woman's health is at risk and if this kind of communication with her doctor is her best option to receive care.
Under this amendment, women would need a separate, segregated Internet just for talking about abortion care with their doctors.
Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, said DeMint is essentially mandating "an abortion-only version of Skype." She points out that a woman with high-risk pregnancy talking to her doctor through video conferencing would have to somehow switch to a separate communications system if abortion came up at all. "It is impractical, ridiculous, and, most importantly, bad for women in rural or remote areas who would not be able to discuss the full set of options with their doctor," Keenan said.
DeMint's bill is yet another Republican attempt to circumvent women's constitutional right to an abortion by essentially outlawing doctors from discussing that option with their patients. These so-called "small government" conservatives have no problem inserting government into private conversations between women and their doctors.
To add insult to injury, DeMint's underhanded method is to shoehorn this attack on women's privacy onto an unrelated bill — an insidious effort to push his agenda while avoiding public scrutiny.


READ THE COMMENTS! These people in that political party are morons. You do not see this extremism in the other political party. 

[heironymouspasparagus]

There is a movement here in our state to REQUIRE, under state law, a doctor to act only according to FDA recommendations for all treatment.

Think about that for a moment. 

This is another attempt by the state of Oklahoma to insert itself into the relationship between you and your doctor.  Now, this mess has all come about in their attempt to keep people from using the 'morning after' pill.  Unfortunately, that is NOT where it will end.  There will be unintended, adverse consequences.  This is not only unjustified in an allegedly 'free society', it can be dangerous to the patient.

One example might be like the very old recommended practice of treating ulcers with stomach surgery (I have 4 relatives who had that particular adventure).  Then we found out that ulcers are caused by a bacteria, and a course of antibiotics cures the problem.  With this law, doctors would be required to perform a surgery long after the knowledge had changed, but before the FDA recommendations followed suit.

Another might be the news coming out the last couple weeks that the PSA test for prostate cancer actually leads to testing that at best is unnecessary and may actually be dangerous.  How long will it take FDA recommended procedure to catch up to the current state of the art in medicine??  Given past performance, I'm guessing years.

And yet, we keep electing these clowns....