Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 1:34 pm
Such bullshit.
Does your doctor have to be present every time you go to fill your meds? Fuck you, Iowa.
The exchange came during a 3½-hour hearing. The medical board is considering new rules that would require doctors to be physically present when dispensing abortion pills. That would effectively ban Planned Parenthood of the Heartland’s video system.
Under the system, women are checked by staff members at local clinics, then have an interview with a Des Moines doctor via a closed-circuit video system. If the doctor decides the woman qualifies, he or she enters a computer command that opens a drawer in front of the woman. She withdraws pill bottles from the drawer and takes the first pill as the doctor watches. Then she goes home, takes more pills and has what amounts to an induced miscarriage.
Does your doctor have to be present every time you go to fill your meds? Fuck you, Iowa.