Do You Not Know, Have You Not Heard? Questions every young American should contemplate the first/next time she votes:

That the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued a press release dated June 7, 2013, opposing undue political interference in the doctor-patient relationship.  They also have issued a formal Statement of Policy:
http://www.acog.org/About_ACOG/News_Room/News_Releases/2013/Ob-Gyns_Issue_Policy_Opposing_Legislative_Interference
http://www.acog.org/About_ACOG/News_Room/News_Releases/2013/Ob-Gyns_Denounce_Texas_Abortion_Legislation
http://www.acog.org/About_ACOG/News_Room/News_Releases/2012/Response_to_Politicians_Inaccurate_Abortion_Comments
See also the New England Journal of Medicine article that describes the forms of undue political interference:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb1209858

That ethical informed consent in medical research is a principle that should carry over into ethical clinical practice untainted by undue political interference:
http://answers.hhs.gov/ohrp/categories/1566
http://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/topics/consent.html
http://www.ama-assn.org//ama/pub/physician-resources/legal-topics/patient-physician-relationship-topics/informed-consent.page

That ethical informed consent as we know it today is the direct result of the Belmont Report issued in the wake of the Tuskeegee Syphilis Study scandal:
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/humansubjects/guidance/belmont.html

That undue political interference in women's health care already has taken a devastating toll in women's lives both here and abroad:
Consider the case of Danielle DEAVER.
http://nebraska.statepaper.com/vnews/display.v/ART/4d746bd70eb25
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2126108/Nebraskas-new-abortion-law-forced-mother-birth-22-weeks-watch-baby-die.html

Consider the case of Savita HALAPPANAVAR:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-20321741
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Savita-Halappanavars-husbands-detailed-diary-of-days-leading-up-to-her-death-183769781.html
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/republic-of-ireland/savita-halappanavars-abortion-requests-missing-from-medical-file-16241442.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2013/0118/1224329001402.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-20405702
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-20779631
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2264608/Savita-Halappanavar-Husband-demands-answers-inquest.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/02/medics-treating-savita-halappanavar
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/did-irish-catholic-law-or-malpractice-kill-savita-halappanavar

Consider the case of Carolyn JONES:
http://www.texasobserver.org/we-have-no-choice-one-womans-ordeal-with-texas-new-sonogram-law/
http://www.npr.org/2013/01/22/169059701/we-have-no-choice-a-story-of-the-texas-sonogram-law

Consider the case of NATIVE AMERICAN women:
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/no_plan_b_for_native_american_women/
http://www.msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2012/06/07/wishful-thinking-or-science-morning-after-pill-abortion-myth-debunked/

Consider the case of American women serving in "our" military -- especially BEFORE you enlist:
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2011/11/29/her-service-and-sacrifice-demand-fairness-and-equal-treatment-from-congress
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2011/05/26/military-women-deserve-firstclass-treatment-secondclass-status

Consider the case of Ann KEENAN and how those who refuse to learn from history have no qualms about forcing others to repeat it:
http://www.salon.com/2011/08/08/mitt_romney_abortion_ann_keenan

Consider the plight of millions of women around the globe:
http://livewire.amnesty.org/2012/07/11/looking-for-human-rights-at-family-planning-summit/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22958512
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/nov/18/female-genital-mutilation-circumcision-indonesia

That in this day and age, every woman's access to information, education, and medical services for her reproductive health is not just some extra pork in her state's budget, it is a basic human right:
http://www.unfpa.org/gender/index.htm
http://www.unfpa.org/rights/rh.htm
http://www.unfpa.org/rh/planning.htm
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/13/us-women-un-rights-idUSBRE92C1EN20130313
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/166196.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/381827.stm

That many committed Catholics also believe in the right -- and the duty -- of every woman to plan her pregnancies for the sake of her children:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/11/melinda-gates-challenges-vatican-contraception

That even with the best state-of-the-art medical testing, things can still go very, very wrong:
http://www.npr.org/books/titles/174114011/the-still-point-of-the-turning-world

That it is incumbent upon every voter to check out the scientific reliability of research cited by politicians to the extent she can:
http://www.guttmacher.org/media/evidencecheck/index.html
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/resources/research-papers-23519.htm

That TRAP laws have nothing to do with regulating hunting in your state:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SBtu5Pxf68cJ:http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/students/groups/oslj/files/2013/05/12_Manian_Publisher.pdf%2Bwww.guttmacher.org/pubs.gpr/11/14/gpr110420.html&hl=en&gbv=2&ct=clnk

That political ends make sacrificing women's ethical health care an expedient means only if women are gullible enough to vote shysters into office:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-election/9493653/US-election-Mitt-Romney-met-Todd-Akin-doctor-John-Willke-during-2012-campaign.html

That not every doctor weighing in on women's health care knows what he is talking about:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/us/politics/rape-assertions-are-dismissed-by-health-experts.html

So make sure that you consult a doctor who knows what s/he is talking about:
http://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/get-involved/advisory-boards-and-initiatives/republicans-choice/goldwater-award/

That you also should inform yourself about how religious doctrines enforced by clerics with no medical qualifications whatsoever can affect the quality of health care you will receive at any hospital BEFORE you permit yourself to be admitted:
http://msmagazine.com/blog/2011/05/09/treatment-denied/

That, when it comes to financial accountability, Planned Parenthood is NOT the institution on international criminal watchlists for its money laundering practices:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/28/vatican-prelate-plot-smuggle-20m
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/world/europe/pope-fills-key-job-at-troubled-vatican-bank.html?_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/world/europe/power-struggle-on-reforming-vatican-bank.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/9130182/US-list-Vatican-as-money-laundering-risk.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/08/vatican-laundering-idUSL5E8E89AM20120308

That those opposed to ethical reproductive health care would do better to take care of the children we already have in this country:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15193530
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/mitt-romney-rejects-his-natural-voters-by-jeffrey-frankel
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/06/05/star-house-funding-still-kept-out-of-state-budget.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18585020

That a painful truth in human history is that some women can and do behave just as treacherously toward other women as some men do:
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/scholtz-klink2.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERscholtz.htm
http://womanwarriors.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/gertrud-scholtz-klink-female-fuhrer-breathed-her-nazi-beliefs/
http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/ScholtzKlinkGertrud/

That a hopeful truth in human history is that other women find the courage to speak out and to help eachother:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/peopleevents/p_sanger.html
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4847bx.htm
http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/
http://www.uic.edu/orgs/cwluherstory/CWLUFeature/TribTheater.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/world/europe/18aubrac.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/mar/16/guardianobituaries.france
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/spots_of_light/stefania_wilczynska.asp
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/events/event_details.asp?cid=100

To The Ladies Of The 130th Ohio General Assembly

As you most certainly must know by now, The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued a press release on June 7, 2013, opposing undue political interference between doctors and their patients.  This organization of QUALIFIED medical professionals views the political threat to women's health care so seriously that they also have issued a formal Statement of Policy.  You can access their Statement of Policy in pdf format through a hyperlink in their press release (assuming you care enough about other women patients to bother):

http://www.acog.org/About_ACOG/News_Room/News_Releases/2013/Ob-Gyns_Issue_Policy_Opposing_Legislative_Interference

In their press release, these obstetricians and gynecologists specifically oppose subjecting patients to unnecessary tests and procedures like ultrasounds for no medical reason.  They reject being forced to recite scientifically disputed -- and even disproven -- scripts as if they were holy writ, for that can only subvert the relationship of trust between them and their patients.  Evidently, doctors don't like being forced to pervert informed consent for base political reasons anymore than any sane patient wants to be betrayed and put at gratuitous risk by statehouse-sponsored lies:

http://answers.hhs.gov/ohrp/categories/15666
http://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/topics/consent.html
http://www.ama-assn.org//ama/pub/physician-resources/legal-topics/patient-physician-relationship-topics/informed-consent.page

Unfortunately, the 130th General Assembly has been a breeding ground for assinine TRAP bills like Ohio HB 200; bills to pervert informed consent; and even budget amendments to defund Planned Parenthood by rigging the Title X grant approval process as payback for refusing to play political footsie by betraying their patients.  The willful ignorance and the reckless disregard for patients behind these bills couldn't be crasser.

Accordingly, any woman in the 130th General Assembly who supports this ongoing idiocy -- or remains silent in her own caucus lest she be outted as a woman of true conscience -- deserves to take her place next to Gertrud Scholtz-Klink in the annals of history:

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/scholtz-klink2.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERscholtz.htm
http://womanwarriors.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/gertrud-scholtz-klink-female-fuhrer-breathed-her-nazi-beliefs/
http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/ScholtzKlinkGertrud/

Time is short, ladies.  Either speak up as real women asserting EVERY woman's right to consult her doctors without undue political interference or get ready to stand next to Gertie for all time according to the motto that Gertie, Gertie, Gertie was a hack, hack, hack.