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prochoice_maryland2012-05-12 10:57 am
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Kansas Women Need Our Help: Tell Kansas Lawmakers to stop Playing Doctor
From Planned Parenthood:
In one of the most unbelievable assaults we've seen, the Kansas State Senate will vote any day now on an outrageous bill that will strip women of their fundamental rights and radically change the doctor-patient relationship.
The new bill in Kansas will require doctors to lie to their patients and tell women seeking abortions that the procedure will increase their risk of breast cancer — even though the science says otherwise. Even worse, the new bill protects doctors who withhold information about possible fetal anomalies and health risks from a pregnant patient if the truth might lead her to end her pregnancy.
This bill is a betrayal of women — not just in Kansas, but everywhere. It tells women and their doctors that politicians know better than they do. We must stand up for women in Kansas: Tell state lawmakers in Kansas and beyond to stop playing doctor. They need to stop interfering with women's most private medical decisions.
In one of the most unbelievable assaults we've seen, the Kansas State Senate will vote any day now on an outrageous bill that will strip women of their fundamental rights and radically change the doctor-patient relationship.
The new bill in Kansas will require doctors to lie to their patients and tell women seeking abortions that the procedure will increase their risk of breast cancer — even though the science says otherwise. Even worse, the new bill protects doctors who withhold information about possible fetal anomalies and health risks from a pregnant patient if the truth might lead her to end her pregnancy.
This bill is a betrayal of women — not just in Kansas, but everywhere. It tells women and their doctors that politicians know better than they do. We must stand up for women in Kansas: Tell state lawmakers in Kansas and beyond to stop playing doctor. They need to stop interfering with women's most private medical decisions.