Athena Madison

Michael Kalustian
Speech 2
April 17, 214
Project #2 Part 1: Abortion
I. Introduction
A. Eradicating barriers that prevent access to legal and safe abortions:
1. Greetings. Thank you for joining us in discussing this delicate issue
that affects all women in the United States.
2. Despite the medical practice of abortions having been legalized,
access to an abortion is slowly diminishing as medical providers are
trapped by TRAP Bills that act as a manipulative set of laws
claiming to protect women into safe abortions, yet intentionally
acting as a barrier to stop abortion procedures.
B. That is why I propose that the Supreme Court overturn TRAP Bill regulations and
that Congress move forward to eradicate TRAP Bills, in order to ensure easy access
of already safe and legal abortions.
II. Significance
A. Harm 1: TRAP Bills are designed to stop, prevent and stall abortion procedures.
1. The National Abortion Federation states that TRAP Bills mean
Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers, and are a measure
that unnecessarily regulates where abortions may be provided or
designates abortion clinics as ambulatory surgical centers,
outpatient care centers, or hospitals without medical
justification.
2. These bills are politically motivated, medically unnecessary and
stigmatize abortion providers, while promoting the unfounded fear
that abortions are unsafe.
3. TRAP Bills give the state department of health expansive authority
that enables states that oppose abortion to implement structural and
staffing requirements for abortions clinics.
4. 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.

B. Harm 2: Abortion care is still inaccessible, tempting unwanted consequences.
1. According to the National Abortion Federation, a recent survey found
that 87% of U.S. counties have no identifiable abortion provider.
2. Women seeking an inaccessible abortion may resort to back-alley
abortions that have taken many lives. According to Our Bodies Our
Selves Health Resource Center, the annual number of illegal abortions in
the United States during the 1950s and 1960s ranged from 200,000 to
1.2 million. Prior to Roe v. Wade, as many as 5,000 American women
died annually as a direct result of unsafe abortions.
3. 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.
III. Inherency
A. Making abortion procedures legal has given women their civil rights back, has
provided safety in these procedures and has prevented many unwanted back-
alley abortions. Despite this, TRAP laws act as ultimate barriers for abortion
providers, claiming solely safety regulation purposes, yet truly making abortion
procedures less accessible and endangering the lives of women.
B. We are dealing with a structural inherency and attitudinal inherency because these
TRAP Bills are politically motivated and medically unnecessary.

IV. Plan
A. Agent: The United States of America
B. Mandates:
1. Congress will demand that TRAP Bills prove that they are
medically necessary.
2. 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.
3. States must implement policy that mandates counties to appoint
abortion providers and public county abortion clinics.

C. Enforcement: Each state health department will be on oversight, states must prove
that at least 90% of the counties in that state have appointed an abortion provider,
otherwise the state department of health could be facing fines and board members and
authoritative staff will be on overview to evaluate work performance.
D. Funding and Staffing: Enacting TRAP Bills was an expense for abortion providers
and abortion clinics, eradicating TRAP Bills actually saves states thousands of
dollars. Methods of funding and staffing will resume to the way things were before
TRAP Bills were enacted.
E. Timeline: Immediately
V: Solvency
A. Harm 1: Eliminating TRAP Bills allows abortion providers to provide easily
accessible services without unnecessary barriers.
1. By eliminating TRAP Bills, abortion providers can service women
without some many barriers while still providing safe, legal
abortions. According to the National Abortion Federation TRAP
bills can include various structural requirements, such as
specifications for the janitors' closets, hallway width and height,
lawn care standards, or excessive staffing requirements. The bills
often establish new licensing requirements for abortion clinics,
subjecting clinics to heavy fees and regular inspections of facilities
and records by the state, sometimes without adequate safeguards to
protect patient privacy.
2. Eliminating TRAP Bills also saves abortion providers thousands of
dollars because they no longer have to comply with far reaching
unnecessary TRAP Bill regulations.
3. Eliminating TRAP Bills allows small abortion clinics to operate in
non-metropolitan counties, increasing the access to legal safe
abortions.
B. Harm 2: Increased access for women to legal and safe abortions.
1. Eliminating TRAP Bills while increasing easy access to abortions allows
counties to easily identify abortion providers because abortion providers will
resurface to provide those services that they were once discouraged from
providing thanks to the TRAP Bills.
2. Access to reproductive services such as abortion care is extremely important
in that it dramatically reduces, if not eliminates, back-alley abortions.
3. Having easy access to abortions allows women to have more control over their
lives, easy access to abortions provides a woman with options. Linda Lowen
states in an article, 10 Abortion Arguments, The ability of a woman to have
control of her body is critical to civil rights.

VI. Advantages: In addition to solving numerous problems, this plan also has other
advantages:
A. Eliminating TRAP Bills will save abortion providers across the country thousands
of dollars that could go to other clinical services because they will no longer have
to comply with TRAP bills.
B. Abortion providers will resurface to provide services as they will no longer be
trapped by TRAP regulations.
C. 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.
VII. Conclusion
A. As stated earlier, TRAP regulations are not necessary and eliminating these laws will be
more beneficial to both women and providers.
B. 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.