{"id":50037,"date":"2015-04-09T20:55:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T02:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/09\/abortion-restrictions-are-all-about-womens-safety-or-not.html"},"modified":"2015-05-06T17:43:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T23:43:37","slug":"abortion-restrictions-are-all-about-womens-safety-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/09\/abortion-restrictions-are-all-about-womens-safety-or-not.html","title":{"rendered":"Abortion restrictions are all about women&#039;s safety. Or not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because the best way for North Carolina to protect the health and safety of women who legally seek an abortion (for ever-narrowing bounds of legal) is &#8230; preventing the University of North Carolina&#39;s medical school from teaching about abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#39;s all about women&#39;s health.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/xx_factor\/2015\/04\/08\/north_carolina_abortion_bill_it_would_prevent_medical_students_from_learning.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/m-ll4l_V6qcbSEaljfwjHxF-hSdOBi4ymuK3X_R7e6d59ytd1zlKTevrjwphc5igQYLO4aJZeXpVFkzZXwfhvu4WbKp8UPvKNkb6a9HdkZEDO-kYeW74tppTC1Kv_jNoisNT6QZS9HOLcWWmNMBVxXozz-DNItICmVEGSDrE1ye41DFToBkdCLNFT1O8n6KtZjH28eTosUR-Q2vDM74ruODmaeeiNx5XDSK2accts_lUuEEDkvTHCQo71xRuJp9WEgBACyWeJsucxurbOl_1UR1LbQf6uLjq0ovl7QsCZYDBaE4MHKZjjqYz_WHeMsaMBhG_gmeMyB19UrjgdAUtbNMH3LIzZEfytZ_yA1jqzaI=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/xx_factor\/2015\/04\/08\/north_carolina_abortion_bill_it_would_prevent_medical_students_from_learning.html'>To Keep Women Safe, North Carolina GOP Tries to Stop Med Students From Learning How to Provide Safe Abortions<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nFor the past few years, Republicans at the state level have passed a frenzy of abortion restrictions while arguing that they&#8217;re doing it to protect women and make abortion safer. North Carolina state Rep. Pat McElraft says as much about her latest bill, HB 465: &ldquo;There&#8217;s no effort here to&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/UxzR5KeEK43'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because the best way for North Carolina to protect the health and safety of women who legally seek an abortion (for ever-narrowing bounds of legal) is &#8230; preventing the University of North Carolina&#39;s medical school from teaching about abortions. Yes, it&#39;s all about women&#39;s health. To Keep Women Safe, North Carolina GOP Tries to Stop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/09\/abortion-restrictions-are-all-about-womens-safety-or-not.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Abortion restrictions are all about women&#039;s safety. 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