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Related: About this forumState legislators at it again with the Transvaginal Probes
Indiana Bill Would Force Women To Undergo Two Transvaginal Probes To Take A PillA medication abortion pill, officially known as RU-486, is the earliest available abortion option for a woman.
A patient could be as little as one week pregnant and take the pill to terminate. But despite the incredibly early stage at which the pill is administered, a new bill proposed in the Indiana State Senate would require women to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound before they are permitted to simply swallow the medication.
Indianas effort follows a sweeping national trend to mandate the medically unnecessary and invasive procedure as a way to create barriers to abortion access. And theirs goes a step further, by also forcing clinics that administer the pill to meet all of the same requirements as a surgical abortion clinic:
The provision is included in Senate Bill 371, which also would require any clinic that dispenses the drug known as RU-486 to meet the same requirements as a clinic that performs surgical abortions, though physicians offices would be exempt.
A patient could be as little as one week pregnant and take the pill to terminate. But despite the incredibly early stage at which the pill is administered, a new bill proposed in the Indiana State Senate would require women to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound before they are permitted to simply swallow the medication.
Indianas effort follows a sweeping national trend to mandate the medically unnecessary and invasive procedure as a way to create barriers to abortion access. And theirs goes a step further, by also forcing clinics that administer the pill to meet all of the same requirements as a surgical abortion clinic:
The provision is included in Senate Bill 371, which also would require any clinic that dispenses the drug known as RU-486 to meet the same requirements as a clinic that performs surgical abortions, though physicians offices would be exempt.
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State legislators at it again with the Transvaginal Probes (Original Post)
LiberalFighter
Feb 2013
OP
It reeks of men wanting Taliban like control over women. Makes my skin crawl.
applegrove
Feb 2013
#1
It be best that they and their progeny are fixed so they can't procreate.
LiberalFighter
Feb 2013
#5
applegrove
(118,677 posts)1. It reeks of men wanting Taliban like control over women. Makes my skin crawl.
HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)2. Inserting an object in a woman's vagina
against her will is RAPE. Plain and simple. I think to make it fair, men should be required to have a proctoscopy before getting viagra. How does that insertion of a foreign object into one's body sound now?
MrYikes
(720 posts)3. Indiana is so,,so,,disgusting. I should move away.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)4. I have a friend from Indiana
Even he has said it's getting a little scary over there. Apparently his mother is a prepper (I don't know if I got that correct), one who prepares for an armed revolution.
I'd like to see mandated anal probes suggested for some of the male legislators sponsoring these laws. I'm sure they'd run screaming like little boys.
Edit: To be clear I'm not saying they should be anal probed, only that it should be suggested as well since they clearly think it's ok to violate women's bodies.
LiberalFighter
(50,942 posts)5. It be best that they and their progeny are fixed so they can't procreate.