Abortion:

The Ultimate Choice.

By Athena Madison
April 27, 2014
Introduction
This power point addresses the lack of access
to legal and safe abortions and how to
eradicate barriers to ensure access to a safe
and legal abortion.
The Harms
TRAP Bills are designed to stall, prevent and stop abortion procedures.

-Unnecessary regulation of where abortions can be provided
-Designates abortion clinics as ambulatory centers, without medical justification
-A medically unnecessary and politically motivated measure
-Actively promotes the unfounded fear that abortions are unsafe
-TRAP Bills give the state dept. of health expansive authority that enables states
that oppose abortion to implement structural and staffing requirements for
abortions clinics.
-These regulations discourage and cause abortion clinics to close because they are
unable to meet ridiculous requirements such as hiring and re-staffing medical
personnel, remodeling the entire building, requiring unnecessary patient
evaluations all to claim legitimate safety regulations that are based on existing
hospital guidelines yet are medically unnecessary.

*TRAP Bills: Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers

The Harms (Continued)
Abortion care is still inaccessible.

87% of U.S. counties have no identifiable abortion provider.
Lack of access to abortion care results in unsafe, illegal back-
alley abortions

TRAP regulations discourage abortion providers from providing
services, partially giving way to the 87% of U.S. counties that have
no identifiable abortion provider; this causes a chain reaction
where women do not have access to legal and safe abortions,
tempting women to resort to back-alley abortions.







The Inherency

These issues are of structural inherency and
attitudinal inherency because these TRAP Bills
are politically motivated and medically
unnecessary.



The Plan
Mandates:
Congress will demand that TRAP Bills prove that they
are medically necessary.
Abortion providers will resume services with the safety
regulations that are set up by the federal Clinical
Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA), Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA),
and Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA) requirements.
States must implement policy that mandates counties
to appoint abortion providers and public county
abortion clinics.

Solvency
Eliminating TRAP Bills allows abortion providers to provide
easily accessible services without unnecessary barriers.

-Saves abortion providers thousands of dollars because they
no longer have to comply with TRAP Bill structural
requirements that mandate buildings be entirely remodeled.

-Small abortion clinics will be able to operate in non-metropolitan
counties, increasing the access to legal safe abortions.

Solvency
Increased access for women to legal and safe
abortions.
-Eliminating TRAP bills allows providers to re-open clinics,
prompting easily identifiable abortion providers.

-Easily accessible abortion care eliminates back-alley
abortions.

- Easy access to abortions provides a woman with options

The Advantages
Saves abortion providers thousands of dollars that
could go to other clinical services because they will no
longer have to comply with TRAP bills.

Abortion providers will resurface to provide services as
they will no longer be trapped by TRAP regulations.

By providing easy access to abortions we allow for
women to decide for themselves whether or not they
are capable of raising a child and prevent women from
resorting to back-alley abortions.

Conclusion
TRAP regulations are not necessary and eliminating these
laws will be more beneficial to both women and providers.


For all of these reasons, I propose that the Supreme Court
overturn TRAP Bill regulations and that Congress move
forward to eradicate TRAP Bills across the U.S., in order to
ensure easy access of already safe and legal abortions.

References
1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2013). Reproductive Health. Data
and Statistics,. Retrieved from
http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/Data_Stats/
2. Lowen, L. (2014). Abortion Arguments from Pro-Life and Pro-Choice Sides &
Main Points of Debate. 10 Abortion Arguments: 10 Arguments For Abortion, 10
Arguments Against Abortion. Retrieved from
http://womensissues.about.com/od/reproductiverights/a/AbortionArgumen.htm
3. Brown, Lisa M., (2007). The TRAP: Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers.
National Abortion Federation . Retrieved from
https://www.prochoice.org/about_abortion/facts/trap_laws.html
4. National Abortion Federation.,(2010). Threats to Abortion Rights/TRAP Bills.
National Abortion Federation,. Retrieved from
http://www.prochoice.org/policy/states/trap_laws.html