Women must pass a test before having an abortion in Nebraska

[BirminghamExaminer]

Excerpt (You can read the rest here):

Lawmakers in Nebraska gave final approval Monday for a bill requiring that women seeking an abortion be screened for the risk of mental or physical problems after an abortion. The risks could be "physical, psychological, emotional, demographic, or situational," according to the bill. The bill will also require doctors to assess whether or not women were "pressured" into having an abortion.

Senator Brad Ashford of Omaha was the single dissenting vote on the measure. He said the language was too vague and added, "I don't know if a physician faced with civil action can know all the risk factors."

Greg Schleppenbach of the National Catholic Conference said, "We're dealing with destruction of early, unborn life, so we ought to take extra care."

The National Catholic Conference ought to be focusing on the problems plaguing the church and its leaders instead of involving themselves in lawmaking.

In essence, if a woman wants to have an abortion, her doctor has to screen her for what Nebraska deems might be the risk of emotional or physical harm and whether or not she was pressured by someone else into having an abortion. If the doctor doesn't comply, the woman could file a civil law suit against the doctor. It's difficult to understand what the bill means by "demographic" or "situational."

[havocmom]

1. Lawmakers in Nebraska should have to pass some tests too IMHO

Mental health screening for starters, then I would tie some of the lesser appendages into knots and see if they could free their minds with their genitals in knots. Some of them seem rather tied in knots over trying to control the propagation parts of women.

In the spirit of full disclosure: yes, I am in a pissy mood. Have had more than enough of control freaks and others with less than sterling mental health who think they can be the boss of me and all other females.

HAVE HAD IT!

[Jefferson23]

2. I see the authoritarians succeeded here, my condolences.

[izquierdista]

3. They should pass a test...

...a pregnancy test, and that's all.