Monday, June 11, 2012

Texas Here We Come...

We talked recently about if the far right gets their way, we can be more like Indiana. Now that the recall election is over, the far right thinks Indiana is too tame. Texas here we come!!

 From Sunday's Wisconsin State Journal:
Wisconsin Right to Life, which scored major victories last session thanks to Walker and the Republican-dominated Legislature, plans to push a series of anti-abortion rights measures that are almost certain to draw opposition from many Democrats.

Among their priorities are requiring doctors to conduct ultrasounds on women seeking abortions and make them available for patients to see; banning all abortions after 20 weeks' gestation, as six states do; banning abortion coverage in public workers' health insurance plans; and prohibiting gender-selection as a basis for abortion, said Susan Armacost, legislative political-action committee director for Wisconsin Right to Life.
Yes that has worked so well in Texas:
If learning that her son was sick was the single worst moment in Jones’ life, what followed just magnified the horror. Texas is one of seven states — along with Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana and Mississippi — that requires ultrasound prior to abortion. In July, Virginia will become the eighth.

When she arrived at Planned Parenthood, the doctor who was to perform the abortion first performed an ultrasound, as ordered by law — despite the fact that it was Jones’ third ultrasound of the day. He also had to describe in detail her baby’s anatomy. “It felt barbaric to have to listen to a description of a baby I had so badly wanted,” says Jones, who is 35. “I could barely breathe.”

Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath, pledging to do no harm. Yet it’s tough to argue that forcing Jones to look at and listen to the description of a baby she would never rock or cuddle didn’t cause her psychological harm. The doctor must have known this; he apologized to Jones and tried to minimize her distress. “I am so sorry,” she says he told her, “but if I don’t do this, I could lose my license.” He did his best to make the ordeal easier. He spoke softly. The nurse turned up the radio. But still Jones heard him
Read the full account of her story here! Nothing says smaller limited government more than Robin Vos passing a bill forcing transvaginal ultrasounds upon women who make the very personal and private decision to terminate a pregnancy.

10 comments:

  1. I can not say that I disagree with the idea of an ultrasound before an abortion takes place. It is important that woman (not all are that bright, yanno) know exactly what they will be held accountable for :)

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    2. WTF! WTF! HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR? LOOK YOU HYPOCRITICAL STREET CORNER PRAYING PHARISEE YOU LEAVE G~D'S JOB TO G~D! You're the kind of sanctimonious skirt-lifter that gives the rest of Yeshua's bretheren a bad name. G~d won't need an ultrasound to see into any of our hearts and I'll trust Him to see the grace circumcised there.

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  2. held accountable for???

    Why not just have Steve Nass have to sign off on everything we do?

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  3. As a woman I say get the hell out of my vagina!

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  4. Women are the inferior, anyway, created to serve man.


    ;)

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  5. Geez, it's getting crowded in my gynecologist's exam room these days.

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  6. Fine, I'll serve your man on a platter.

    With an apple in his mouth.

    Possibly after turning slowly, slowly on a spit.

    Mmmmmm, spanferkel!

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  7. Smaller government??? As long as Republicans want bigger government stationed in the bedroom no less, I propose that for every transvaginal ultrasound performed in Wisconsin, Rep Vos and Sen Grothman be subjected to a penile probe "to make certain their plumbing is in order"

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