Action | Amend the Regulation after Assessment and Receipt of Public Comment |
Stage | NOIRA |
Comment Period | Ended on 7/10/2019 |
The push for more clinic regs to increase women's safety is laudable at first glance.
However, net effect of mandating medically unnecessary operating guidelines, waiting periods, unreasonable timetables, gratuitously non-scientific "peer counseling," and spurious extra procedures is increased risk to women's physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing -- not a decrease. Bodily autonomy is a basic human right, as is healthcare based in science and not public opinion, or unfounded anecdotes, or politicians practicing medicine without a license.
To increase women's safety in medical offices, ensure women's healthcare is always a matter for individual women, their medically-trained and licensed providers, and their own -- no one else's -- relationship with God, spirituality and/or family connections.