New Law Requires Women To Name Baby, Paint Nursery Before Getting Abortion

In The Know panelists say more states should make decorating a nursery and choosing a baby name required steps in obtaining access to an abortion.

00:00:12.210,00:00:15.170 I'm Gregory Dawson, sitting in for Clifford Banes who was accidentally erased. 00:00:15.280,00:00:17.410 On the heels of states which have passed abortion laws 00:00:17.550,00:00:19.310 requiring the viewing of an ultrasound, 00:00:19.550,00:00:22.190 Arkansas has enacted a new law that requires women 00:00:22.380,00:00:25.020 to name their unborn baby and paint a nursery for it 00:00:25.220,00:00:26.790 before undergoing the procedure. 00:00:27.030,00:00:29.160 Should other states adopt similar abortion laws? 00:00:29.260,00:00:32.230 Of course they should it's just common sense that viewing an ultrasound image of a fetus 00:00:32.320,00:00:35.150 and then painting a nursery either pink or blue helps gives women 00:00:35.290,00:00:38.020 the information they need to be sure they're making the right decision. -Exactly! 00:00:38.170,00:00:40.020 We have to support women through this process. 00:00:40.220,00:00:42.770 Naming their unborn child is part of that. -Yes! 00:00:42.960,00:00:44.900 And if a woman clears out a room in her house, 00:00:45.000,00:00:47.360 and assembles a crib and buys three toys for the child, 00:00:47.510,00:00:50.150 and a few other simple steps, and then decides that she wants 00:00:50.340,00:00:52.700 to purge that baby from her womb, then she can. -Definitely. 00:00:52.850,00:00:55.300 But I'm worried that the law doesn't go far enough in helping these women. -How so? 00:00:55.450,00:00:57.760 Well, because during the mandatory three week reflection period 00:00:57.910,00:00:59.060 after the nursery is painted, 00:00:59.260,00:01:01.300 the women could just close the door and not even look at it. -That is true. 00:01:01.490,00:01:03.760 She should be required to sit in the nursery at least an hour per day 00:01:03.860,00:01:06.410 surrounded by baby booties and pacifiers so she won't 00:01:06.600,00:01:08.270 regret rushing into a decision later. 00:01:08.500,00:01:11.090 Now, some critics say that this law may be too time consuming 00:01:11.240,00:01:13.550 for many women to comply with. - I agree. It's too complicated. 00:01:13.700,00:01:17.040 Simply requiring women to watch a computer simulation of their baby, 00:01:17.280,00:01:19.270 what it would have looked like saying, "I love you mommy," 00:01:19.460,00:01:20.200 would have been enough. 00:01:20.340,00:01:22.980 These extra measures are simply taking valuable time away 00:01:23.170,00:01:24.790 from our medical professionals. -That makes sense. 00:01:24.940,00:01:27.120 Like the provision that requires nurses to follow women around 00:01:27.310,00:01:30.140 with a giant boom box that plays that sound of children's innocent laughter 00:01:30.280,00:01:31.160 over and over again. 00:01:31.300,00:01:32.690 But those studies show that these extra steps 00:01:32.790,00:01:34.690 actually make the laws work better. -Yeah. 00:01:34.880,00:01:37.800 For example, the Missouri law requiring pharmacists dispense birth control 00:01:37.990,00:01:39.660 in a blood red container with a skull on it 00:01:39.850,00:01:42.400 while eerily chanting, "God have mercy on us" in Latin 00:01:42.630,00:01:46.110 has actually increased how careful teens are about sex. -Absolutely. 00:01:46.300,00:01:48.290 Similarly, Texas this week, started a so called, 00:01:48.440,00:01:50.240 "Take a life, save a life" program, 00:01:50.390,00:01:52.840 ordering women to give a kidney while undergoing an abortion. 00:01:53.040,00:01:53.870 And it's a great program. 00:01:54.060,00:01:55.770 Look, if a woman isn't ready to have her kidney removed, 00:01:55.960,00:01:58.650 then it's clear that she has doubts about getting an abortion. - That's right. 00:01:58.840,00:01:59.710 It also gives the woman so many choices. 00:01:59.910,00:02:00.740 If they don't want to give a kidney, 00:02:00.880,00:02:02.960 they can just opt to donate all the blood in their body. 00:02:03.340,00:02:08.860 STILL AHEAD: POPEYES INTRODUCED ALL-SKIN MEAL