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Washington D.C., Jul 16, 2014 \/ 05:02 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- A federal bill to remove almost all abortion regulations is drawing strong opposition from critics who say that it would be devastating to health and safety of both women and their children.<\/p>\n

\tU.S. Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.), a registered nurse of over 40 years, expressed \u201cgrave concerns\u201d about the negative effects that the proposal could have on health and safety standards. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\tIn a July 15 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Black warned that the bill \u2013 entitled the Women\u2019s Health Protective Act \u2013 is actually harmful to women.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cAbortions not only pose serious physical health risks, but endanger a women\u2019s mental health as well,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\tIntroduced by Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), the legislation would ban many restrictions on abortion, including laws to require certain credentials or testing of abortion doctors and laws to prohibit telemedicine abortions, in which the doctor is not in the same room as the patient receiving the abortion pill. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\tIt would also prevent laws against sex-selective abortion and bans on abortion after the baby is developed enough to live outside the womb.<\/p>\n

\tAfter \u201cconsidering the many health care risks that can occur as a result of abortion,\u201d Black emphasized her strong opposition to the bill and to \u201cany other effort that would undermine current laws that exist to protect the health and well-being of women and unborn children at the federal, state, and local level of government.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cAbortion is brutal,\u201d she stressed, \u201cto both the mother and the unborn child. It is not healthcare.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tBlack\u2019s criticisms were echoed by pro-life and pro-women advocates across the country.<\/p>\n

\tIn a June 15 letter to Senate Judiciary Committee leaders, a group of 40 state legislators \u2013 all of them women \u2013 voiced alarm at the \u201cextreme and unwarranted measure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tIf passed, they said, the potential law would void \u201cany and all efforts to provide legislative response to abortionists like Kermit Gosnell,\u201d the Philadelphia abortion doctor who was convicted last year of three first-degree murder charges for killing babies who had been born alive at his abortion clinic.<\/p>\n

\tInvestigations found that Gosnell operated under filthy and dangerous conditions, while testimony indicated that he and his staff snipped the necks of more than 100 infants who survived abortion. He was also found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a patient who died of an overdose from drugs administered at the clinic.<\/p>\n

\tPassing the \u201crash and ill-considered\u201d Senate proposal would foster more abuses like those perpetrated by Gosnell, the women cautioned in their letter.<\/p>\n

\tIn addition, they said, it would further undermine women\u2019s health by removing informed consent protections and allowing non-physicians to carry out abortions, they said.<\/p>\n

\tIt would also allow for the abortion of children \u201cmerely on account of their sex \u2013 in nearly all cases because they are, like us, female.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tMarjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, also blasted the bill in a July 15 statement.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cNot only will the Senate vote to force religious Americans to pay for the abortion drugs of others, the bill under consideration today would invalidate hundreds of pro-life, pro-woman laws,\u201d she said. \u201cThe effect? This would enshrine abortion on demand up until birth.\u201d<\/p>\n

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