Your Voices: Patient Safety Ordinance Harms Women
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Your Voices: Patient Safety Ordinance Harms Women

ByKyle W. Bell

The St. Joseph County Council is currently debating Ordinance 69-14, the Patient Safety Bill, which proponents say will help provide better healthcare for women. If this is truly the purpose of the bill, one would think that medical practitioners in South Bend would offer their full-throated support. The opposite is true. Medical professionals, including the…

St. Joseph County Council Debates Proposed Abortion Restriction
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St. Joseph County Council Debates Proposed Abortion Restriction

ByKyle W. Bell

Indiana has been at the center of a number of controversial anti-abortion laws in the past several years. The legislature’s measures have ranged from mandates that women receiving an abortion procedure be informed that “objective scientific information shows that a fetus can feel pain” at or before 20 weeks into a pregnancy — a contention…