{"id":49844,"date":"2014-05-23T15:52:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T19:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=49844"},"modified":"2014-05-23T11:35:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T15:35:41","slug":"kansas-abortion-clinics-not-the-only-ones-that-are-undermining-informed-consent-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/kansas-abortion-clinics-not-the-only-ones-that-are-undermining-informed-consent-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas abortion clinics not the only ones that are undermining informed consent laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>LifeNews <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2014\/05\/21\/planned-parenthood-breaking-new-law-requiring-it-to-tell-women-about-their-unborn-babies\/\" target=\"_blank\">posted an article recently\u00a0<\/a>about how some Kansas abortion clinics are undermining informed consent laws by adding their own editorial comments to the material. Kansas law requires women to be directed to a website which gives information about her unborn child and provide links to organizations that would help her carry her child to term.<\/p>\n<p>Providing this information allows a woman to make an informed choice about her body and her health. If abortion clinics were truly dedicated to helping women, they would give them all the relevant information to allow them to choose whether or not to have their babies. <a href=\"http:\/\/clinicquotes.com\/category\/truth-aborted\/informed-consent-and-selling-abortions\/\" target=\"_blank\">We know for a fact they do not.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to LifeNews, abortion clinics are getting around this law\u00a0by posting little \u201cdisclaimers\u201d on their websites. They give this example of an abortion clinic prefacing the link with the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are being forced by Republicans to use our website resources to say untruthful things about the State\u2019s proLife website in hopes that you will visit their website and change your mind away from abortion. We must have this signage or go to jail. Republicans also don\u2019t believe that rape causes pregnancy, nor ever too many children. They are stupid. Let\u2019s vote them out of office. However, here goes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It turns out that the abortion clinics cited in the article are not the only ones that try to get around consent laws. For example, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/01\/20\/us\/an-abortion-doctor-s-view.html\" target=\"_blank\">article in the New York Time<\/a>s described how one abortion doctor, who performs roughly 3000 abortions a year, deals with the informed consent requirement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026he made a few of what he said he felt were corrections. While the state form says \u201dunborn child,\u201d he says \u201dthe developing pregnancy.\u2019\u2026\u2019This is all basically harassment,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also says, in the videotape:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This message is brought to you compliments of your anti-abortion, Republican State Legislature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to pro-choice authors Robin Marty, Jessica Mason, and Pieklo Crow:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026 [Dr. Curtis Boyd, abortionist] provides the state script, then adds his own thoughts to the end of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Boyd says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sometimes I wonder what would happen if the state wanted to make an issue of it. You know: \u201cWe\u2019ve already told you what you must say; now you can\u2019t say\u2026\u201d I don\u2019t know. They can\u2019t rule that I can\u2019t have an opinion. They have sort of ruled what my opinion must be to the patient, but it doesn\u2019t say clearly you can\u2019t tell the patient you think something differently. So I do it. I think, \u201cWell, they\u2019ll just have to take me to court.\u201d There\u2019s just a limit to how far they can go. I have to salvage my integrity, somehow. So I say, \u201cthis is what the state wants me to tell you, and my own belief is that abortion does not cause breast cancer,\u201d and so forth \u2013 and that you are quite ethically competent to make this decision. I respect your decision making process. I\u2019ve given you the decision-making process the state wants you to follow.(1)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So we see that a number of abortion providers have been documented undermining informed consent laws. How common this is among abortion providers is not known, but it would not be surprising if many of them try to weasel out of providing informed consent to women. After all, if the woman chooses to have her baby, the clinic makes no money off of her decision. \u00a0Every woman should be troubled by the fact that abortion clinics go to such lengths to hide valuable and important information from their patients.<\/p>\n<p>Robin Marty, Jessica Mason Pieklo Crow After Roe (Brooklyn, New York: ig Publishing, 2013) 102 \u2013 103<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LifeNews posted an article recently\u00a0about how some Kansas abortion clinics are undermining informed consent laws by adding their own editorial comments to the material. Kansas law requires women to be directed to a website which gives information about her unborn child and provide links to organizations that would help her carry her child to term. 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