{"id":198600,"date":"2019-03-18T11:17:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T16:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=198600"},"modified":"2019-03-18T23:50:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T04:50:45","slug":"maine-democrats-non-physicians-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/maine-democrats-non-physicians-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Democrats push bill to allow non-physicians to commit abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maine’s House Speaker Sara Gideon and Governor Janet Mills, both Democrats, are introducing a bill that will allow non-physicians to commit abortions<\/a>. The bill, LD 1261, is limited to nurse practitioners, physicians assistants, and certified nurse-midwives, and it supporters claim it is needed to remove “barriers” preventing women from finding abortionists.<\/p>\n

Mills, who was formerly the state’s attorney general, previously tried to pass the legislation, but failed. This time, however, the bill is expected to pass<\/a>, as Democrats hold majorities in both the House and the Senate. \u201cEvery woman in Maine should be able to access reproductive health care when and where she needs it, regardless of her zip code,\u201d Mills said in a statement. \u201cAllowing advanced nurse practitioners and physician assistants to perform medication-administered abortions, which are already permitted in other states, will ensure Maine women, especially in rural areas of our state, can access reproductive health care services.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gideon, the co-sponsor of the bill, meanwhile argued that it was needed so that women living in rural areas can have access to abortion. And, unsurprisingly, the bill has the support of Planned Parenthood<\/a>, which has led women to believe that the abortion pill is safer than Tylenol<\/a>. It isn’t. But because half of U.S. states don’t even require the reporting of abortion complications<\/a>, women are left utterly in the dark as to how risky the abortion pill can be:<\/p>\n