Women won't stand for abortion-rights rollback

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http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/28/opinion/richards-abortion-access-restrictions-south/
Women won't stand for abortion-rights rollback
By Cecile Richards for CNN
Wed May 28, 2014

Editor's note: Cecile Richards is president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund

(CNN) -- Last week, the Louisiana legislature passed a bill that could force all but two of the state's abortion providers to close their doors, which means Louisiana is preparing to join Texas, Alabama, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Mississippi to the list of Southern states on the verge of wiping out access to safe and legal abortion.

Laws such as the one now headed to Gov. Bobby Jindal's desk appear to be part of a national strategy to subject doctors who provide abortion to medically unnecessary restrictions under the guise of improving patient safety despite the fact that abortion is already one of the safest medical procedures in the country.

These laws have one real purpose: to make it almost impossible for a woman to get an abortion, no matter what circumstances she may be facing.

Three years ago in Texas, there were 62 health centers that provided safe and legal abortion. Come this fall, as a result of harsh abortion restrictions, there could be as few as seven. That's seven health centers for 5.7 million women of reproductive age in a state roughly the size of France.... MORE at link provided above.

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women medical care in the name of freedom is the republican way.