providers. msnbc.com s national reporter joins us now. are there members of the medical community who are pushing back at this, or is this mostly conservatives and republicans who see this as a danger to women? tamron, they conducted a study over several years with medical professionals from public health researchers to sociologists training people in these procedures, trying to see, would it be just as safe for women if physicians assistants, nurse midwives and nurse practitioners performed first trimester abortions? it s a very simple procedure. what they found is that in both cases, in both groups, the complication rates were less than 2%. in countries where abortion is illegal, women get them anyway. they just get ones that are less safe. if we can expand access, the idea is we ll keep women safer. as i pointed out, opponents point out it subjects women to a lower level of medical care.
20-week bans in a number of states. 20-week ban part of texas law. we re hearing marco rubio will introduce a senate version of 20-week van to go with trent franks version in the house. attached to the 20-week bans are the attacks on the clinics, themselves. what does it mean to require a clinic to say, have, admitting privileges? why is that actually a that? why shouldn t we think that s a perfectly reasonable thing to do? there there are a couple of reasons why these are t.r.a.p.s. t.r.a.p., sometimes we use it as an acronym. look at the motivation behind i law. why would you require admitting for abortions and not for something else that s done regularly every day in an outpatient clinic? it s not necessarily necessary. you re doing it to make sure abortion providers can t continue to do abortions. abortion has the highest safety record of any surgical procedure in the country. it has one of the lowest complication rates. it almost never results in someone needing to two to the hos
t.r.a.p., sometimes we use it as an acronym. look at the motivation behind i law. why would you require admitting for abortions and not for something else that s done regularly every day in an outpatient clinic? it s not necessarily necessary. you re doing it to make sure abortion providers can t continue to do abortions. abortion has the highest safety record of any surgical procedure in the country. it has one of the lowest complication rates. it almost never results in someone needing to two to the hospital. admitting privileges are really hard to get. right. for a variety of reasons. you pass one of these laws and you shut down the clinic. there s other ways in which there s other kind of novel ways in which states have come up with this, you know, having to register as an ambulatory center to meet some kind of regulatory threshold. right. that s what s going on right now in a few states as well. right. so texas and north carolina are both considered ambulatory surgic
we re hearing marco rubio will introduce a senate version of 20-week van to go with trent franks version in the house. attached to the 20-week bans are the attacks on the clinics, themselves. what does it mean to require a clinic to say, have, admitting privileges? why is that twhactually a that? why shouldn t we think that s a perfectly reasonable thing to do? there there are a couple of reasons why these are traps. t.r.a.p., sometimes we use it as an acronym. look at the motivation behind i law. why would you require admitting for abortions and not for something else that s done regularly every day in an outpatient clinic? it s not necessarily necessary. you re doing it to make sure abortion providers can t continue to do abortions. abortion has the highest safety record of any surgical procedure in the country. it has one of the lowest complication rates. it almost never rulesults in someone needing to two to the hospital. admitting privileges are really hard to get.
years the death rate from colon cancer has gone down a lot to do with the series we re doing and awareness for patients out there. we want to talk about screening and prevention. what can people do to try to keep themselves from actually getting colon cancer. five second formula, stay away from red meat and animal fats and make sure that you increase your fruits, vegetables, fibers, and get screened. that s the easy formula. obviously, there are certain guidelines about screening and anyone, men or women over the age 50 to 75, you want to make sure you go for your screening and that requires stool test once a year, which is a very easy test, sigmoidoscopy looking at the camera and part of the colon and virtual colonoscopy, the gold standard i want to emphasize colonoscopy every ten years and pros and cons, colonoscopy is invasive and fear factor it it, but the complication rates are extremely low and in the