California Senate Passes Bill to Let Nurses Perform Abortions

So, what is all of this leading to?  Looks to me that they are trying to make the doctor irrelevant and pointless.  Get rid of the high-priced employee and bring down the cost of healthcare.

How short-sighted is that?

The measure by Assembly Majority Leader Toni Atkins, a San Diego Democrat, passed the Senate 25 to 11. The bill now goes back to the Assembly, which passed it in May, to ratify amendments before going to Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat.

If signed, California would allow abortions by midwives, physician assistants and nurse practitioners in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Four others states permit non-physician abortions: Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon and Vermont, according to a University of California, San Francisco, study. Thirty-nine states require a licensed physician.

Wow.  States that are Paragons of Liberal Thought.  Doesn't surprise me in the least.