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One law requires abortion clinics to have separate dressing rooms for patients and staff, complete with toilets, washing station and storage, in addition to procedure rooms of at least 150 square feet
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Under the arrangement announced last night, Swedish will underwrite the cost of a new clinic, which will be called the First Hill Health Center of Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest.
In the original announcement of the affiliation, Swedish said it would “remain a nonreligious organization”. . . it was not clear why a nonreligious organization would end legal elective abortions.
Women who have private insurance plans can now get any contraceptive, including sterilization procedures, with the insurance plan picking up the entire cost.
Anti-abortion groups oppose the decision, arguing that contraception is against the religious beliefs of some Americans, and that some forms of emergency contraception, including Plan B, are akin to early abortion.
States in the first half of this year have enacted a record 162 new laws or changes to existing laws that affect reproductive health and access to abortion.
Since 1989, when the state’s rate peaked at 96 pregnancies per 1,000 teenaged women, the rate has halved to 46.6 per 1,000 last year.
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