Women's health and reproductive issues should not be the subject of government regulation.  As long as the doctor(s) providing care to any individual meet state and federal requirements to practice medicine, women should be allowed to make medical decisions on their own and without state intrusion or interference.  Safe first-trimester abortions are no more dangerous and pose no greater threat to health than do colonoscopies, eye surgery and many other kinds of medical procedures currently offered in non-hospital settings. Yet where is the concern for these individuals?  Where is the outcry?  Women do not need to have their access to safe medical procedures delayed or postponed in order to satisfy requirements allegedy designed to give them "more information".  Using such duplicitous measures does not fool anyone.  Men do not have the right to force their religious beliefs on others, and to claim that they are an expression of "concern for the mother" is hypocrisy that is all the more blatant because of the duplicity behind it.  Regulations proposed to limit access to birth control and abortion are nothing more than an attempt to push women back to a time when they were nothing more than chattel and second-class citizens, and they are not justifiable in any sense of the word.  Fertilized eggs are not human beings any more than acorns are oak trees.  You may believe what you want, but you may not force those beliefs on me.  Women who do not want abortions will never be asked to have them, but no woman who wants or needs an abortion should be prohibited from having one because of someone else's religious beliefs.  I have a constitutional right to be free from your religion!