As of January 1, 2004, abortion care providers in Texas have been subjected to one of those ever more commonplace TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) law packages being crafted by state legislatures under the cynical lie of "protecting women," that in reality accomplish only the creation of greater barriers to the provision, availability, and access to safe, legal, professional abortion care - which, of course, is exactly the result desired by the supporters of such laws - not any improvement in the safety of abortion care, which was already so safe it could scarcely be improved upon (and certainly not by making it even less accessible and less affordable).
One of many requirements of the TRAP laws in Texas is that women seeking abortion care must be given, orally by phone or in person, a litany of state-mandated "information" about abortion, much of which is flagrantly false and misleading, at least 24 hours before she can obtain an abortion. It was the naïve hope of the drafters and supporters of this law that women would be scared out of having abortions by hearing how "dangerous" abortion is.
To avoid the logistical impossibilities (another whole diary on that) . . .
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