War on Women: proposed IUD restriction based on misunderstanding of basic biology

[Kber]

[link:http://www.plunderbund.com/2012/02/17/war-on-women-iud/|

This week, without any public testimony, Republicans on the Ohio House Health and Aging Committee voted along party lines to prohibit Ohio physician assistants from fitting, inserting or removing a device “designed in such a manner that it functions either solely or in combination with other functions by preventing or hindering an embryo from implanting within the uterus or from growing if implantation occurs.” According to Chairman Lynn Wachtmann, fertilization is the point at which life begins, and preventing pregnancy through the use of an IUD is, effectively, terminating a life.

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[COLGATE4]

1. Is the point that they intend to

restrict use of IUD's, or is it that they don't want PA's (2 yrs of study) fooling around inserting them into patients who don't know better than to let a P.A. do that kind of stuff?

[roseBudd]

3. Mine was inserted by a PA

My endometrial biopsy was done by a OB-GYN

[usregimechange]

2. amazing!