9 Mar 2012 9:45 pm
Arizona Senate Approves Lying To Women To Prevent AbortionsThe Arizona Senate on Tuesday approved a bill that would allow doctors withhold information about prenatal problems if it could make the decision to have an abortion more likely. Republican state Sen. Nancy Barto introduced the measure to protect doctors from so-called wrongful birth lawsuits.This malpractice shield is the latest in attacks on a womans right to access reliable, unbiased health care information and represents yet another effort by Republican legislators to interfere in doctor-patient relationship, Care2′s Jessica Pieklo wrote. But even worse, the law presumes that it is the states role to dictate what information a woman should have access to and what information she needs to be protected from in accessing routine health care services.