NRLC: According to Friday’s State Journal newspaper, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will announce plans to stop performing RU486 abortions. The decision comes days after the state passed Act 217, the “Coercive and Web Cam Abortion Prevention Act” and which goes into effect today. The law does not ban the use of RU486. It says that if abortionists are going to employ this dangerous abortion technique, they must be in the same room as the mother.
RU486 abortions account for 26% of abortions in Wisconsin. Planned Parenthood CEO Teri Huyck characterized the law as “vague” and “problematic. It’s very difficult for a physician to know when he or she is in compliance with the law.”
Of course the law is not at all vague, which is why Planned Parenthood, at least for now, is saying it will not be performing chemically-induced abortions. The law takes into account three realities the abortion industry side-steps: (1) at least 14 women in the U.S. alone who’ve taken RU486 have died, and hundreds more have been injured; (2) by not having the abortionist onsite (so-called “web cam abortions”), an already dangerous abortion technique becomes even more threatening to women; and (3) women ARE coerced into having abortions.
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