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A Nebraska bill that would have banned the use of remote control systems to administer abortion drugs in small-town clinics has stalled in a legislative committee. The Judiciary Committee on Tuesday failed to advance the measure (LB521) by Lincoln Sen. Tony Fulton. The bill would require a doctor's physical presence with a patient to administer abortion drugs. No plans are under way to introduce remote web cam systems in Nebraska, but Planned Parenthood has enacted such a program in Iowa. The bill would require a doctor who is prescribing and administering the abortion drug RU-486 to be physically present with the patient. Nebraska Right to Life, a leading abortion opponent in the state, vowed to continue its push to advance the bill
Under the webcam system, an abortionist, maybe from a clinic in a large urban center, communicates with a woman at a remote location by means of a video conferencing system. After a brief screening and “counseling” session, he clicks a mouse and triggers the opening of a drawer from which the woman takes out the two drugs that make up the “RU-486? chemical abortion regimen: mifepristone and misoprostol.
