What can you say about this. I guess it’s no longer “safe, legal and rare”, but “fast and profitable”.
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England and civil liberties groups are challenging a Maine law that prohibits nurse practitioners and nurse-midwives from performing abortions, a case that could have national implications and result in improved access to abortion services.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Portland, contests a law enacted in 1979 requiring that abortions be performed only by doctors. Most abortions in Maine are done at three women’s health centers – Planned Parenthood in Portland and clinics in Augusta and Bangor. Read more here.