Candidates who call themselves "pro-choice" and their supporters often claim that abortion should not even be a topic of discussion in politics.  They state, "It should be between a woman and her doctor."  In the last legislative session, many of these same "pro-choice" legislators fought hard to get a bill passed that requires doctors in hospitals to provide information on emergency contraception to victims of rape and incest.  Why do they think it is necessary to intervene in a doctor / patient relationship that they have presented as so untouchable all these years?  Do they not trust these doctors to properly care for their patients?  Why do they presume that abortion providers are above reproach in caring for their patients?  They must consider abortion providers as the best doctors in the nation because they demand that abortion clinics remain the most unregulated component of the medical profession.   Any attempt to regulate abortion clinics generates claims that right wing extremists are trying to intimidate women who are seeking abortion.  But the people and groups making that complaint are usually those who have a self-interest in abortion.  These groups with a self-interest include Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest provider of abortion, where over 180,000 abortions are performed annually.  How many women who seek an abortion actually get a chance to make this decision with their doctors?  In fact, in the vast majority of abortions, the first contact the woman has with the doctor is when he begins performing the abortion.  "Keeping abortion between a woman and her doctor" is empty rhetoric.  Women need protection from abortionists who victimize them, in some cases, even forcing them to have the abortion after they have changed their mind.  So much for choice!