Posted on 06/27/2011 4:39:08 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Gov. Bev Perdue vetoed a bill that would have required women seeking abortions to wait 24 hours after state-mandated counseling and to undergo ultrasounds.
In a statement, Perdue said the bill would interfer with doctor-patient relationships.
“This bill is a dangerous intrusion into the confidential relationship that exists between women and their doctors," she said. "The bill contains provisions that are the most extreme in the nation in terms of interfering with that relationship. Physicians must be free to advise and treat their patients based on their medical knowledge and expertise and not have their advice overridden by elected officials seeking to impose their own ideological agenda on others.”
This is Perdue's 10th veto of the year.
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A 24 hr waiting period is too extreme?
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