Home speaker: Senate -related abortion restrictions are more than safety – Oil City News

From Maggie Mulian

Cheyenne, Wyo.

One bill will regulate the facilities that provide clinical abortions, while the second legislative act will require a patient to be subjected to transvaginal ultrasound before taking abortion medicines.

Wyoming’s close ban on abortion and ban on abortion drugs violate the state’s constitution, the District Court Judge Melissa Owens ended in November. The state appealed the decision before the Supreme Court of Wyoming. While the State Supreme Court does not weigh, Republican legislators said that abortion rules, such as BI 42 of the House, “Regulation of Surgical Abortions” and Bill of 64 of the House, “Requirement for Chemical Abortions-Ultra” are required to preserve Patients safe.

Safety reports were displaced this week when House Chip Neiman chairman, Hulett’s Republican and House Bill 64, made Tuesday on the floor.

“Bank, you have me,” Neiman said. “I want the mother to have time to think about it,” referring to the added step of transvaginal ultrasound before taking abortion medicines.

Neiman reiterated that his bill was to prevent abortions while on second reading on Wednesday.

“Yes, you have me,” he said. “I do it, I absolutely believe that life is valuable. That we have to do everything that is possible to protect it. ”

Democratic MPs and a handful of Republicans pulled back.

“I think we just have to be honest here,” Reps said. Carly Proveza, Democrat of Larami, on the floor on Tuesday.

“If we want to ban abortions, which I think, you know, the intention,” she said, then “bring amendment to the constitution, send it to the voters.”

It is unclear if such efforts would be successful – even in a deep red state like Weyoming. The study, published in November by the University of Wyoming, found that residents of abortion residents vied, with only 10% wanting to ban the practice entirely and another 31% supporting ban on exceptions to rape, incest or when a woman’s life is in danger.

In the end, the House Bill 64 passed 48-13 with one excused. Bill 42 of House passed 52-8 with two justified.

A third bill related to the House of Akos of the Chamber 159, “Protection of Water from Chemical Abortion Water”-set out by the Commission earlier in the week and was determined to be discussed in the house during publication.

Clinic regulations

The 42 House bill requires that abortion clinics are licensed as outpatient surgical centers – which are healthcare facilities that are not part of a hospital that performs surgery.

Casper’s Wellspring health access is the only Wyoming facility for clinical abortions. The clinic is also one of the plaintiffs who have brought the state to judge the country’s banning abortions.

The main sponsor of the bill, the Republican Republican Republic of Martha Lowley, said before that such provisions were needed as long as abortions were legal in Wyoming.

Lawley brought a similar bill last year and he passed both chambers. Governor Mark Gordon, however, vetoed the bill in an attempt to “maintain our current court case on a quick decision,” he wrote in his veto a letter, a reference to the case, then before Judge Owens.

The bill will adopt several provisions. This will require, for example, all clinic doctors to accept privileges at a hospital no more than 10 miles.

Reporter Lloyd Larsen, a Republican from Lander, brought a change to change this requirement of just the closest hospital. This is what state law is currently requires outpatient surgical centers, he said.

“I think we just have to be consistent,” Larsen said.

Lowley said the amendment is against the intention of the bill, which is a “care continuity”.

The change failed, as well as one of Jackson’s reputation Democrat Mike In.

The latter would add two other procedures to the bill – hysteroscopy and electrosurgical excision.

“I want to make sure that if we are… to keep women safe in situations where the uterine lining is damaged, that they are again within a facility, that they could have immediate, immediate care,” Yin said.

Transvaginal ultrasounds

House Bill 64 will require a patient to receive transvaginal ultrasound no more than 48 hours before taking abortion medicines.

Violators will be charged with a crime, as well as a maximum of five years in prison, up to a fine of $ 20,000 or both.

The Chamber approved two amendments to the bill, both of them brought by Neiman.

They both changed the requirements of the ultrasound supplier. The first changes to the requirement to ensure the age and weight of the embryo or fetus, to the age, length and diameter of the head. The second will require them to allow the patient to “look at the movement of the heart of the fetus.”

“I believe it is a compassion legislation,” Neiman said before adding.

Yin offered another perspective.

“When we think of ultrasound, we think of this ultrasonic stick, you put it over your abdomen, put a little gel on your abdomen, non -invasive. And this is not a big deal, “Yin said.

But what the account requires is not this, said Y.

Instead, the bill calls for “sticking a stick inside a person to make an ultrasound,” Yin said.

“If the government told me I have to have something stuck in me to do something I can legally do right now in Wyoming, I will probably give the government a lot of words and a lot of gestures because the government should be” no “no I do this, “he said.

Elisa Campbell, a Republican from Casper, brought an unsuccessful change that would require the ultrasound, but would allow patients to reduce.

“Show me the evidence that the appointment of transvaginal ultrasounds falls into the field of public safety and well -being,” Campbell said.

The legislation is now referring to the Senate for discussion.

This article was originally published by Wyofile and was reprinted here with permission. Wyofile is an independent non -profit organization focused on people, places and policy of Wyoming.

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