A bill allowing nurse practitioners meeting specified criteria to practice without physician supervision—including first-trimester abortion—has been introduced by Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), she announced on March 3.
Atkins said Senate Bill (SB) 1375 is intended to help address the shortage of health care professionals and complement recommendations from the California Future of Abortion Council as a way to strengthen abortion services.
“With an increasing shortage of providers, far too many Californians are struggling to get the care they need, when they need it,” she said. “Patients—especially pregnant people considering abortion—don’t have time to waste. That’s why it is so important that highly skilled, qualified nurse practitioners have the opportunity to practice independently, including the ability to provide first term abortions.”
The bill would widen access and affordability to abortion services and health care by increasing the number of nurse practitioners able to perform an abortion, especially among underrepresented and lower-income communities. It would clarify provisions set forth in law by Assemblyman Jim Wood’s (D-Santa Rosa) Assembly Bill 890 and Atkins’s own Assembly Bill 154, which was signed into law in 2013.
SB 1375, the new bill, would clarify that nurse practitioners who have been practicing for three or more years satisfy the requirement established in AB 890, and could also utilize prior practice experience to satisfy the requirement.
“Senate President Pro Tempore Atkins has long been a champion of increasing access to health care, especially women’s reproductive rights,” said Wood, a principal co-author on SB 1375. “Given that too many states are passing laws restricting a woman’s right to choose, I am proud to coauthor SB 1375, which will maximize the ability of our professional nurse practitioners to help women get the care they need.”
The new bill would expand on Atkins’s AB 154, which increased the types of trained health professionals who can provide early abortions by allowing nurse practitioners, certified nurse-midwives, and physician assistants to perform early abortions safely within the terms of their licenses.
The new bill would also update statutes relating to early abortion services to allow nurse practitioners qualified to practice independently to provide first-trimester abortion.
The above comes from a March 3 article in the Epoch Times.
They have no idea what a huge cow pie they’re kicking. The unintended consequences of this will be stunning. Typical lack of foresight and critical thinking by progressive aristocrats.
Allowing non surgeons to perform surgeries will result in many lawsuits, and those most likely to accept this lower standard of care will be disproportionally poor and minority. More fodder for the lawyer$.
Remember when abortion proponents said abortion was “a matter between a woman and her doctor,” even though many women and girls never meet their “doctor” before the day they’re executing their children?
Now, abortion is a matter between a woman or girl and a nurse practitioner (or minimum-wage Planned Parenthood “counselor”) who profits from the “procedure.”
And, David Daleiden is a criminal who must be severely punished for exposing Planned Parenthood’s sale of baby body parts, while, as an investigative reporter, recording abortion profiteers in public places. “There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the rooftops.” Jesus (Luke 12:2-3)
why not pest control companies …. you know, Exterminators
they’re regulated by the government.
Let’s get real – this ain’t healthcare.
Dr., hmmm… there is a certain logic to that. How about veterinarians? They’re doctors. Or, maybe Dr. Jill Biden?
The photo of Toni Atkins (above) confirms my belief that what and how we think and act over time eventually shows up on the face. It’s not pretty.
My personal belief (I have no studies or anything) is that the unkindness of people contributes a lot to the frequency of abortion.
The sub head line should read “What Could Go Wrong?”
Suffering. Such awful suffering will occur. I’m so sorry for all the suffering babies and women will endure.
Women have performed abortions and dispensed birth control outside the male medical system for centuries. When men created gynecology in the renaissance, the emergence of men taking over health care for women resulted in death, botched abortions etc. Women healers had been worldwide for centuries. There is no way I would ever want some creepy man putting his hands on my body. So, women who are the largest number of nurse practioners are taking back women’s power. Men don’t like this. Men don’t want women to have access to birth control, yet they insist on having sex without THEIR birth control? Now why is this men? So if men and Catholic officials want an end to abortion, they need to tell men to STOP getting women pregnant in the first place.
No matter how a child is conceived, they are a human being. Abortion is a highly unethical practice that destroys a human life.
@ Audrey Lockwood – I think you might be a misandrist, sadly.
I suspect Audrey is a troll. If not she has my sympathy.
At least half abortions are male. And it takes 2 for a baby. So… I have as much right to speak about abortion as a women. Isn’t that so Audrey?
Not to mention the obligation to speak against injustice of the undefeated ie unborn. Isn’t tat so, Audrey?
It sounds as if Audrey is trying to get back at her father for something he has done and is talking it out on all men.
No, it doesn’t.
Catholic officials tell everyone not to have sex outside of sacramental marriage.
They teach married couples that it is OK to space children using NFP if there are serious reasons for it
Yes, immoral men get women pregnant but you cannot blame Church officials for that.
You seem to have had a problem with men, maybe even men who should have known to behave morally.
I am sorry for that.
The teaching not to have sex outside of marriage doesn’t merely come from “Catholic officials.” This teaching has its roots in Scriptures, in the Tradition of the Church, in the teachings of the popes and bishops down the centuries.
Re: my last post, I did not mean, though, that abortions and artificial contraceptives sounded good because those are harmful to both women and children. And I have no doubt that male contraceptives are just as bad for the male body. Now I will shut up. It is near Sunday. We need rest from it all.
Poor Audrey, wounded Audrey, Audrey once again revealing her pain. Audrey with a terribly skewed view of reality blinded to everything good in masculinity and embracing everything in femininity, whether good or bad. How I wish for your healing! But do you desire it?
Sounds great, Audrey, but then none of us would even be here if men stopped producing babies. I have often said to God, “Why did you even create sex. It has gotten us into more trouble than any other thing on the planet? You should have put buttons on our sides to push when we wanted babies, and babies would just pop out?”
Well, it does not work that way, Audrey, no matter how much we all complain. We would then be fighting over whether or not to push the buttons, and who would take care of the babies. The battle of the sexes never seems to end.
Sigh.
My post today, March 5, at 1:52 pm was meant to follow this one. I tried to add a little “humor” to it all, but I think I just made a mess of it.
From a purely legal and medical standpoint, if the nurse practitioner can perform the procedure and is duly licensed, then why is this an issue?
The moral aspect is a separate consideration.
Pregnant women considering abortion need to take a lot of time to consider all the implications and complication and consequences.
Aside from a death in the family, there is also the burden of carrying the knowledge that you are the reason for the death. There is the life-suffocating burden of carrying a secret or having a dark place that nothing can fix.
If you have had an abortion, there is healing. Nothing can change reality and bring your child back but you can grieve for both the baby and yourself.
Google post-abortion healing and you will find help.
Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants are highly trained medical professionals. About 40% of all Medicare patients are seen by NPs and PAs. because most rural areas, for example, don’t have enough, if any, doctors. Moral issues aside, they are competent medical people. We need more of them.
@ Bob One – you lost the plot there, sir.
Bob One, they really are not as good.
“We know that the threshold of basic respect for human life is being crossed,
and brutally at that, not only by instances of individual conduct but also by the effects of societal
choices and structures.”
Pope Francis
i hate it when politicians are elected
solely on the basis of their looks
In this case she should be dog catcher
Notice how they always have scowling faces.
May the Holy Spirit guide all of us, and especially medical professionals and legislators towards ethical decisions that
respect the dignity of the human person and the sacredness of human life.
Amen!