Well, if abortion is a “mother’s” right and if the state cannot enact regulations deemed necessary to protect the “mother’s” health, I have a Modest Proposal.
Why couldn’t the state redefine abortion as not being a medical procedure at all? Then let the law provide that no medical credentials of any kind are required to conduct such non-medical procedure?
I’d suggest naming the bill the US Supreme Court Women Butchery Act and being done with it.
Gee, I wonder if a non-medical procedure is even covered by health insurance?
Actually, this Supreme Court decision established that abortion is not a medical procedure. Despite years of abortion proponents claiming that abortion is women's health care (with the unspoken implication that we need no other health care), the Supreme Court just ruled that abortion is not a medical procedure.
So states are completely correct if they remove any requirement for abortionists to have *any* affiliation with the medical community. Although traditionally, abortionists have been trained as physicians, states now have no obligation to require them to have an MD degree or to undergo any kind of board exam. Because it's official--they do not provide medical services.