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Louisiana Abortion Providers Challenge New Ultrasound and Malpractice Law

By ADF Alliance Alert

Center for Reproductive Rights: "Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a federal challenge against two abortion restrictions recently passed by the Louisiana state legislature. One measure excludes doctors who perform abortion services from participating in a medical malpractice fund administered by the state even though that coverage is provided to all other medical professionals. The other measure amends the current requirement in Louisiana that a woman seeking an abortion after twenty weeks of pregnancy receive an ultrasound. It requires women at all stages of pregnancy receive an ultrasound and a photograph of the ultrasound image, even if the woman is a rape or incest victim or diagnosed with a fetal abnormality . . . "

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 06, 2010 (boomark / email).