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| Subject: Planned Parenthood Butchers sue for second time over abortion law Mon Oct 30, 2017 8:28 pm | |
| KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - For the second time, Planned Parenthood is suing Missouri over a portion of its new abortion law, this time involving requirements for administering abortion pills. A woman undergoing a medication abortion takes one pill at an abortion clinic and generally takes a second pill at home. In a federal lawsuit filed Monday in Kansas City, Planned Parenthood seeks to block part of the law, known as complication plan regulation, which requires those who provide the medication to contract with an obstetrician-gynecologist with admitting privileges at a hospital. The ob-gyn must be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to treat any complications from a medication abortion, KCUR reported . In its lawsuit, Planned Parenthood Great Plains said the regulation “is the latest in a series of medically unnecessary requirements imposed by the State, which will, without basis, limit women’s access to an extremely safe procedure using medications alone.” The organization said the regulation has already prevented it from providing medication abortions at its clinic in Columbia. It said complication rates for the procedure are 0.23 percent. The regulation is included in new abortion laws passed this summer during a special session called by Gov. Eric Greitens. Planned Parenthood had filed an earlier lawsuit trying to block a provision of the law that requires the same physician
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