The Kaiser Family Foundation recently wrote an overview of plans for the coming year in several states throughout the country to legislate cut-backs in women’s reproductive rights. The list includes various states’ parental consent law and 24-hour waiting-period proposals. For example, in Virginia , State Legislators are expected to propose several restrictions on abortion rights during the 2005 session, introducing legislation on fetal pain, emergency contraception, abortion clinic building codes, and conscience clauses for pharmacists who refuse to fill birth control prescriptions. The fetal pain measure would require doctors to anesthetize any fetus at 20 weeks gestation or beyond before performing an abortion. Opponents argue that this measure could endanger the health of the pregnant woman.

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