Planned Parenthood is challenging Iowa officials in court over webcam abortions.
The Iowa Board of Medicine ruled a couple of weeks ago to end webcam abortions – often referred to as "telemed" abortions – in which the abortion patient, in a remote location, converses via webcam with an abortionist elsewhere. Once the brief screening is done, the abortionist punches a button and a drawer opens in front of the woman, dispensing abortion chemicals she then takes at home.
Jenifer Bowen of Iowa Right to Life tells OneNewsNow the Iowa Board of Medicine made a sound decision.
"They felt that [because of] the lack of oversight, the lack of providing a doctor, the lack of follow-up care that Planned Parenthood of the Heartland provided, that women were and have been at grave risk here in the state," she states.
The RU-486 regimen has already proven to be dangerous on a national level. Thousands of complications are on record, according to Bowen.
"We know of at least 15 deaths from medication abortions throughout the United States," she explains, "as well as over 2,200 adverse effects of women who have nearly hemorrhaged to death or [suffered] ectopic pregnancies and those sorts of things."
Planned Parenthood is asking the judge to overturn the Board's decision and resume telemed abortions. Iowa was the first state to implement such abortions.
Contact: Charlie Butts, OneNewsNow.com
