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Article: Abortion clincs' procedures assailed Waiting-period backers say intense counseling should be given
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 10, 1996
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State lawyers defending a new law requiring a 24-hour waiting
period for abortions began their case Wednesday by trying to put
abortion clinics and their counselors on trial.
Witnesses for the state told U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb
that women thinking about getting abortions should receive intense
counseling from qualified personnel.
They then attacked the forms and procedures used by several
Wisconsin abortion clinics to counsel such women and obtain informed
consent before performing abortions.
One official called it "medically negligent" for counselors at a
Madison clinic not to review each of the procedure's physical risks
with patients before getting them to sign documents ...