{"id":1051206,"date":"2025-02-07T16:39:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T21:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1051206"},"modified":"2025-02-07T16:39:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T21:39:42","slug":"icymi-the-guardian-wyoming-republicans-anti-abortion-bill-inadvertently-targets-chemotherapy-and-lifesaving-surgeries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-the-guardian-wyoming-republicans-anti-abortion-bill-inadvertently-targets-chemotherapy-and-lifesaving-surgeries\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: The Guardian: Wyoming Republicans\u2019 Anti-Abortion Bill Inadvertently Targets Chemotherapy and Lifesaving Surgeries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point:<\/strong><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><em>\u201cIn an effort to restrict abortion access, Wyoming Republicans authored a bill that could choke access to a host of life-saving medical procedures, from chemotherapy to heart surgery. \u2026 The George Washington University law professor Sonia Suter said the bill fit into a broader trend of taking away authority from medical professionals and putting it into the hands of politicians.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/02\/wyoming-republicans-anti-abortion-bill\"><strong>The Guardian<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Wyoming Republicans\u2019 anti-abortion bill inadvertently targets chemotherapy and surgeries<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Cy Neff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>In an effort to restrict abortion access, Wyoming Republicans authored a bill that could choke access to a host of life-saving medical procedures, from chemotherapy to heart surgery.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>[Republican] Steinmetz says Senate File 125 offers a new definition of healthcare in Wyoming: \u201cNo act, treatment or procedure that causes harm to the heart, respiratory system, central nervous system, brain, skeletal system, jointed or muscled appendages or organ function shall be construed as healthcare.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But Wyoming attorneys and healthcare law professionals at Boston University, George Washington University, Johns Hopkins and Pittsburgh University, say the problem is that a broad swath of healthcare procedures can be considered to cause \u201charm\u201d by design.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cThere\u2019s a slew of medical procedures, surgeries, treatments that can have potentially positive outcomes but may also cause harm in the short period or as an unintended consequence,\u201d the Wyoming attorney Abigail Fournier said.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cIt\u2019s scary to me, because I think it could be interpreted to be very limiting in terms of what healthcare providers can do.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Boston University healthcare law professor Nicole Huberfeld has seen plenty of crafty attempts to restrict abortion access such as transvaginal ultrasound requirements, or laws mandating abortion clinics meet the licensing requirements of ambulatory surgical centers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But Huberfeld and other experts interviewed said that they had yet to encounter a bill looking to redefine healthcare entirely.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Huberfeld will not be surprised if other states follow Wyoming\u2019s lead, particularly those that have constitutional rights to healthcare.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>\u201cIf they don\u2019t have bills like this, I expect that they will take a page from Wyoming\u2019s book and try the same thing,\u201d Huberfeld said.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The George Washington University law professor Sonia Suter said the bill fit into a broader trend of taking away authority from medical professionals and putting it into the hands of politicians.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cIn an effort to restrict abortion access, Wyoming Republicans authored a bill that could choke access to a host of life-saving medical procedures, from chemotherapy to heart surgery. \u2026 The George Washington University 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