{"id":29136,"date":"2017-02-21T21:10:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T05:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/alaska-board-prompted-by-lawsuit-proposes-new-abortion-rules\/"},"modified":"2017-02-21T21:10:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T05:10:34","slug":"alaska-board-prompted-by-lawsuit-proposes-new-abortion-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-board-prompted-by-lawsuit-proposes-new-abortion-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska board, prompted by lawsuit, proposes new abortion rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><strong>JUNEAU &mdash;<\/strong> The Alaska State Medical Board has proposed new abortion regulations, prompted by a lawsuit from abortion-rights advocates who argue that existing rules restrict second-trimester abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Debora Stovern, the board&rsquo;s executive administrator, says the lawsuit flagged for the board the fact that some existing rules were more than 30 years old and perhaps due for review.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed new rules, among other things, would repeal a requirement that a physician consult with another doctor before performing an abortion after the twelfth week of gestation.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, from Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands, is on hold to give the board time to consider its rules.<\/p>\n<p>Planned Parenthood&rsquo;s Katie Rogers says her organization won&rsquo;t make final decisions about the case until any rules changes are final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU &mdash; The Alaska State Medical Board has proposed new abortion regulations, prompted by a lawsuit from abortion-rights advocates who argue that existing rules restrict second-trimester abortions. Debora Stovern, the board&rsquo;s executive administrator, says the lawsuit flagged for the board the fact that some existing rules were more than 30 years old and perhaps due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-29136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29136"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=29136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}