California enacts law allowing nurses to perform some abortions

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California enacts law allowing nurses to perform some abortions

By Sharon Bernstein and Dan Whitcomb SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - California's Democratic governor signed a law on Wednesday that will allow nurses and midwives to perform some abortions, a move aimed at increasing access to the procedure even as other states are tightening the rules. Under the law, the most populous U.S. state would allow nurse-practitioners, nurse-midwives and physician assistants to perform a procedure known as aspiration, which uses suction to dislodge an embryo from the uterine wall during the first few weeks of pregnancy. ...

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