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Tennessee bill would force state to publicly name abortion doctors
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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy Mar 19, 2012 01:04pm |
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| Category | Proposed Legislation |
| Author | Stephen C. Webster |
| News Date | Monday, March 19, 2012 03:55:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A new bill headed for a vote by a Tennessee House committee this week targets abortion providers by requiring the state’s Department of Health to publish detailed information about doctors on a public website.
Known as H.B. 3308, or the “Life Defense Act of 2012,” the bill would not actually level any real “defense” of human embryos. Instead, it would require the Tennessee Department of Health to publish more detailed information about abortions carried out in the state, including the names of doctors who performed them and the hospitals they work with.
It would also require detailed statistics on abortions, including time, date, the woman’s medical conditions at the time, the age of the fetus, the type of procedure performed, the location of the procedure, and the woman’s age, race and marital status, along with details on how many times she has been pregnant.
While all states collect some basic information on abortions, H.B. 3308 would make Tennessee’s reporting the most detailed in the nation.
While the bill’s proponents point to language in the legislative text that protects the identity of each patient, critics argue that the enhanced statistics reporting could be used to identify women who’ve had abortions in small, rural communities. They also fear for the doctors, some of whom have been targeted by radical anti-abortion activists. |
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