As a family doctor and abortion provider in Seattle, I take care of women from all walks of life, including many immigrant and refugee women in our community. A patient’s race or ethnicity should have no bearing on her ability to access health care or on a physician’s ability to provide quality and compassionate medical services.
The proposals include a bill to ban the donation of fetal tissue and a measure to extended the state’s forced waiting period from 24 hours to 72 hours for a pregnant person seeking abortion care.
Brett Baier's question about abortion came one day after CNN’s Democratic debate became the party’s seventh debate that failed to ask the candidates about their stances on abortion rights.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said that Gov. Rick Snyder "took responsibility for what happened" in Flint, despite Snyder facing harsh criticism for how he's handled the crisis.
GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump's claim this week that he is “going to be really good for women" is beyond outrageous. But the truth is that as bad as Trump is on women’s issues, his positions are in line with the Republican Party as a whole, including the other GOP candidates.
Nineteen states require providers to give verbal or written statements that are medically inaccurate or biased. Patients must be told fetuses can feel pain, despite the lack of scientific evidence.
