{"id":21443,"date":"2012-10-03T03:20:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T07:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=21443"},"modified":"2016-09-22T16:09:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T20:09:16","slug":"californias-medical-standard-hit-all-time-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/californias-medical-standard-hit-all-time-low\/","title":{"rendered":"California&#8217;s Medical Standards Hit All-Time Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><div style=\"width: 356px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc6\/hs272.snc6\/180022_10150132468892534_148374017533_8289197_7583277_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"259\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oh really? You just did.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of the sayings I hear from abortion supporters is &#8220;We&#8217;ll never go back!&#8221; But with Senate Bill 623 being passed recently in California, I&#8217;d like someone to explain to me how we have not just taken a gigantic step back in time.<\/p>\n<p>This bill (which I <a href=\"\/news\/opinion\/california-bill-would-lower-the-bar-on-abortion-care\/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote about<\/a> before) was passed by Democrat\u00a0Governor\u00a0Jerry Brown and extends a pilot project which allows non-doctors to perform aspiration abortions. Taking effect on January 1, the program will be extended, and these professionals without\u00a0licenses\u00a0will be allowed to perform abortions.<\/p>\n<p>People say &#8220;We&#8217;ll never go back&#8221; because none of them want women going to &#8220;back-alley&#8221; places to get unsafe abortions. I agree. I don&#8217;t want women putting their lives in danger by obtaining a medical procedure from someone without a\u00a0license. But that&#8217;s exactly what this bill does.<\/p>\n<p>From its beginning, dozens of non-doctors were given minimal training in a \u00a0short amount of time through this program, and then performed over 8,000 abortions on patients. The\u00a0complication\u00a0rate of these procedures by non-doctors was consistently higher than those performed by doctors, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lldf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FactSheetSB1338.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">was reported<\/a> as <a href=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/files\/PRA 012014 SHORT, K (ProgressReports 101 pgs).pdf\" target=\"_blank\">an 80% increase<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re very disappointed that this was signed into law,&#8221; said Dana Cody of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lldf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Life Legal Defense Foundation<\/a>. &#8220;And based on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onenewsnow.com\/culture\/2012\/06\/28\/dangerous-abortion-pilot-project-may-be-extended\" target=\"_blank\">Workforce project<\/a>\u00a0that was a precursor to this and their injury rate, I would say that the pro-abortion forces in California really don&#8217;t care about women. But it&#8217;s not safe based on their own statistics, and to allow non-physicians to do abortions is putting women at risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This bill was originally created with the idea of making abortion more available to women who do not live close enough to where doctors are located. Well, here&#8217;s the thing: having non-doctors perform abortions means more complications as evidenced by their own statistics. If people live in an area without access to doctors, they won&#8217;t have quick access to emergency rooms or hospitals if something goes wrong. Don&#8217;t want to go back in time? We already have.<\/p>\n<p>You can contact the California Governor to complain about this\u00a0unprecedented\u00a0lowering of medical standards here:<\/p>\n<p>Governor Jerry Brown<br \/>\nc\/o State Capitol, Suite 1173<br \/>\nSacramento, CA 95814<br \/>\nPhone: (916) 445-2841<br \/>\nFax: (916) 558-3160<br \/>\nEmail:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/govnews.ca.gov\/gov39mail\/mail.php\">http:\/\/govnews.ca.gov\/gov39mail\/mail.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll never go back,&#8221; huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>California&#039;s Medical Standards Hit All-Time Low - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/californias-medical-standard-hit-all-time-low\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"California&#039;s Medical Standards Hit All-Time Low - 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