Page 8 - Trap Laws News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Mccrory. this is governor pat mccrory after having won that election. sb-353 there is the abortion bill with the trap provisions. regulations so strict it is impossibly expensive for abortion clinics to comply, so they have to shut down. that's the whole point of t.r.a.p. laws. that's the point of this one. no matter how many times they want to put the words health and safety into these bills, they are about shutting clinics down. this bill will probably shut down 15 of the 16 clinics in the state, leaving just one abortion clinic left in the entire state of north carolina. governor mccrory sa...

And only, what, 14 of them performed abortions. the rest of them were only doing family planning and they're closed anyway. and these trap laws, are closing clinics all over the country with regulations like hallways wide enough for two gurneys passing side by side, never mind you'll have two gurneys closing side by side in a little abortion clinic. they're making rules so outrageous clinics can't abide by them. >> there seems to be awareness of how danger this is politically. this is just yesterday, a debate in virginia against ken cuccinelli, one of the most conservative republicans in the c...

Tightening abortions. they make clinics meet the same standard as ambulatory standards. scott walker required them to have hospital admitting privileges as well. in ohio, john kasich signed a measure requiring abortion clinics to establish agreements with emergency hospitals. north dakota, alabama, mississippi, missouri, tennessee all passed new restrictions in the last two years. lawsuits stalled implementation. pro-choice call those attempts targeted restriction of providers, trap laws. in congress, house judiciary committee approved a law banning them 20 weeks after fertilization. florida s...

Looked at the overall impact. this is what republican governors and republican legislators have done across the country. all the trap laws that use state regulations to shut down the clinics, these are the impacts. you don't let anybody tell you that governing doesn't matter. where republicans have taken the reins of state power across the country, they have used it single mindedly to shut down the clinics just since the last election. and it is not like we didn't have a national fight in the last election, for their national subject, they picked a hard-liner ticket, a vice presidential conten...

We have been covering this state by state, as this has been happening this year. first in mississippi, then in north dakota, then in virginia, and almost everywhere where republicans have control. but if you stop looking at it per individual states, it is a pretty dramatic thing that is happening to american women right now. if instead of covering it state by state you put it all on the same map, look at what republicans have said just since the november elections. this covers the number of clinics where women can seek an abortion, in states where the republicans are in charge. this was before...