There are tremendous restrictions on abortion in most states already.

ANTI-CHOICE LAWS
Abortion Ban

Nebraska has an unconstitutional and unenforceable criminal ban on abortion.
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Biased Counseling & Mandatory Delay

Nebraska law subjects women seeking abortions to biased counseling requirements and mandatory delays.
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Counseling Ban/Gag Rule

Nebraska prohibits certain state employees or organizations receiving state funds from counseling or referring women for abortion services.
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Insurance Prohibition for Abortion

Nebraska restricts insurance coverage of abortion.
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Other Anti-Choice Law

Nebraska law includes a strongly anti-choice policy statement.
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Refusal to Provide Medical Services

Nebraska allows certain individuals or entities to refuse to provide women specific reproductive health services, information, or referrals.
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Restrictions on Low-Income Women's Access to Abortion

Nebraska restricts low-income women's access to abortion.
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Restrictions on Young Women's Access to Abortion

Nebraska law restricts young women's access to abortion services by mandating parental notice.
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Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP)

Nebraska prohibits certain qualified health care professionals from performing abortions.
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OTHER RELEVANT LAWS
Post-Viability Abortion Restriction

Nebraska restricts post-viability abortions.
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ANTI-CHOICE LAWS
Biased Counseling & Mandatory Delay

Kansas law subjects women seeking abortions to biased counseling requirements and mandatory delays.
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Counseling Ban/Gag Rule

Kansas prohibits certain state employees or organizations receiving state funds from counseling or referring women for abortion services.
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Public Facilities Restriction

Kansas prohibits the use of some public facilities for the performance of abortions.
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Refusal to Provide Medical Services

Kansas allows certain individuals or entities to refuse to provide women specific reproductive health services, information, or referrals.
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Restrictions on Low-Income Women's Access to Abortion

Kansas restricts low-income women's access to abortion.
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Restrictions on Young Women's Access to Abortion

Kansas law restricts young women's access to abortion services by mandating parental notice.
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PRO-CHOICE LAWS
Protection Against Clinic Violence

Kansas law protects women seeking reproductive health care and medical personnel from blockades and violence.
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I'm the governor, I was the governor up 'til last week. I served on the board of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England for five years. (cheers, applause). When I became governor I had to resign because all--we contracted all our family planning services through Planned Parenthood in Vermont.

We do not hearken to the term "partial birth abortion" in my state because (applause) because partial birth abortion is like the word quota. The President used it six times last night. It's a code word. It's designed to appeal to people's fears, to divisiveness. Partial birth abortion is the same thing. (cheers, applause).

The truth is I went and checked and tried to figure out, because I was running against a conservative person the last two times I ran. I checked, because I knew this would come up, how many late, third trimester abortions had been done in the state of Vermont in the last four years. The number was--. Zero.

This is an issue about nothing; it's an issue about extremism; it's an issue about appealing to people's fears. It is the wrong thing to do and people who use the term partial birth abortion are leading an America in a bad place. (applause). They are trying to divide us people of conscience; it is the wrong thing to do. It's no more honorable for the President of the United States using the word quota, because he knows it divides us by race and use of the word partial birth abortion divides us by conscience. (cheers, applause continue).

There are many good people who on moral grounds are opposed to abortion. I respect them. I do not respect the people who defend the throwing of bombs and murders of doctors however. And some of those exist in our very administration, people who have not stood up against violence; they thought it would be better for their political careers if they didn't say too much about it. The chairman of the Judiciary Committee, last year, who refused to allow the banking bill to go through 'cause it outlawed terrorism at abortion clinics. That is a shameful act and the American people ought to be ashamed of that. .

Howard Dean on a woman's right to choose, thread #2. n

Individual freedom should apply to abortion decision
I believe that the issue of abortion is a medical rather than a political decision. I don't see how a government regulation that tells doctors how to practice medicine can be supported. Republicans claim that they are the party of individual freedom, but they are the first to tell other people how to live their lives.
Source: Winning Back America, by Howard Dean, p.142-3 Dec 3, 2003

Q: Where do you stand on the partial birth abortion ban?
A: In the four years between 1996 & 2000 there were no late term abortions performed in my state. Late term abortions are very rare and should never be used except to save the life or health of the mother. I just don't think the government ought to be making personal medical decisions for Americans. No respectable physician would ever do a late term abortion except for the most serious reasons. That is why I did not support the President's bill
Source: Concord Monitor / WashingtonPost.com on-line Q&A Nov 6, 2003

Q: Will you rollback Bush's restrictions on stem cell research?
A: Yes. The president's anti-science bias should not be permitted to deprive Americans with Parkinson's, diabetes, and other treatable diseases of the help that they need.
Source: Concord Monitor / WashingtonPost.com on-line Q&A Nov 6, 2003

As a physician, I do not like the idea that Congress or the President think they should practice medicine. Abortion is a deeply personal decision which ought to be made between the patient, the family and physician. It's none of the government's business.
Source: Campaign web site, DeanForAmerica.com, "On the Issues" Nov 30, 2002

The notion of "partial birth abortion" is nonsense. This is a rare procedure used only to save the life or health of the mother.
Source: Campaign web site, DeanForAmerica.com, "On the Issues" Nov 30, 2002

The Real Estate of Abortion Politics

The fight over building permits for the Aurora, Ill. Planned Parenthood clinic is just one more example of how the fight over reproductive health is coming down to questions of infrastructure.
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_real_estate_of_abortion_politics


Which is why I was so happy to see photos of the $7.5 million Planned Parenthood clinic recently built in the Chicago suburb of Aurora, Illinois. Hoping to avert the kinds of protests that kept other new abortion clinics from opening (like when a contractor backed out of building a new Planned Parenthood facility in Austin in 2003), Planned Parenthood applied for the building permits under the name of a subsidiary, Gemini Office Development LLC. They disclosed to the planning and zoning board that the building would be occupied by a medical office, but did not specify it would be an abortion provider.

After anti-choice activists discovered that the new medical office building in Aurora was to be a reproductive health clinic, they sounded a clarion call to keep the facility from opening. Under pressure from the anti-choice movement, the city denied Planned Parenthood's occupancy permit. And yesterday, a judge declined to grant a temporary occupancy permit, meaning the new clinic (which was supposed to open on Tuesday) will remain shuttered. At the hearing, the Aurora city attorney argued that this is about land use and permit regulations -- not about restricting abortion access. Planned Parenthood lawyers responded, "We wouldn't be here if this was a foot care clinic."

It's interesting that the anti-abortion movement would go after Planned Parenthood for conducting its real estate business using a third party. Because it's a time-honored anti-choice tactic to purchase, often under a third-party name, the building that houses an abortion clinic, then to subsequently raise the rent to exorbitant amounts or to have the abortion provider evicted outright. The next step is to turn the former clinic into a "crisis-pregnancy center."

In 2000, a state senator who was a vocal abortion-rights opponent and two business partners purchased the building that houses Carhart's clinic. Almost immediately thereafter, Carhart received notices that his lease on the lower portion of the building and the parking lot would be terminated in 30 days and that his lease on the rest of the building would end in six months. As the partnership's lead investor, Bill Rotert, said at the time, "If it's possible, I'm going to close it down. I'm already pricing chain."

The Exorcists: Born-again abortion clinics

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/03/exorcists


When Troy Newman would answer the phone at Central Women's Services in Wichita, Kansas, last summer, there was a lot he didn't mention. The priests who'd been arrested for blocking the abortion clinic's door. The "truth truck" parked nearby with its billboard of an aborted fetus. The pickets at employees' homes. He didn't talk about how all of this had caused the clinic to shut down, save for its still- functioning phone system. He would press the receiver to his ear and intone, "Women's clinic!" And when a nervous voice at the other end of the line would inquire about abortion services, he would furrow his brow and ask, "Don't you know that's a baby?"

The best place to preach against an abortion clinic, Newman has found, is from within one. The national president of Operation Rescue, he bought the clinic—shuttered last May after the pro-life outfit had laid siege to it for more than 15 years—through a front group; now he's turning it into his organization's headquarters, complete with a prayer garden and a memorial to the 50,000 unborn children he claims were murdered there.

As pro-lifers have winnowed the number of abortion providers in America by nearly 25 percent since the early 1990s—Wichita now has just one—Operation Rescue has joined several anti-abortion groups converting clinics to their own purposes. "What better way to show that we are winning and demoralize the enemy," Newman says, "than by shutting down an abortion mill, throwing out the tenants on their face, and taking it over as our headquarters? You lose, we win."

Beyond the chest thumping, the takeover is part of a long-term strategy for the anti-abortion movement. Organizers such as Newman, the son of a San Diego Army recruiter, are seeking new converts—in particular, women, an estimated 26 million of whom have had an abortion. At the Wichita memorial, Newman says, they will be able to reflect, mourn, memorialize—even name their "babies"—and take action: "Not only can I see a plaque here with my baby's name on it, and cry here because I killed my baby here," he imagines visitors saying, "but these people in this building are dedicated to ending the holocaust, and I can join with them hand in hand."