Texas Jumps on Anti-Abortion 'Sonogram' Bandwagon on Heels of Scary Ohio 'Heartbeat' Bill

[marmar]

from AlterNet:



Texas Jumps on Anti-Abortion 'Sonogram' Bandwagon on Heels of Scary Ohio 'Heartbeat' Bill


This week, Texas State Senators will consider a barbaric new bill that would force women to look at a sonogram, hear a heartbeat and listen to their doctor's detailed description of the fetus just two hours before receiving their scheduled abortion.

(Before we get into the details, hold up for one second. Apparently the supporters of the bill, including Republican Senator Dan Patrick -- who introduced it -- and Gov. Rick Perry -- who fast-tracked it -- think that deciding to have an abortion is easy? That choosing to terminate a pregnancy is a decision the country's wanton women make flippantly, as though scheduling a manicure? That the time between learning you are pregnant and deciding to have an abortion is not already filled with agony and distress? Absurd -- and a violation of women's civil liberties.)

Moving on. The bill was expedited by Gov. Perry last month, so that legislators could debate it early on in the session. According to the Austin-American Statesman, Sen. Patrick believes the bill will convince women to curb their planned abortions -- yet even area doctors feel the bill would trample their civil liberties -- and ability to practice effectively:

"It's really an intrusion into the patient-physician relationship," said Pam Udall, spokeswoman for the Texas Medical Association. "We don't think it's in the best interest of any Texas patient that any medical care be predetermined by a scripted, cookbook-type approach."

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[tammywammy]

1. Perry's such an asshole

I'm so glad that this, THIS, is considered an emergency instead of, I dunno, the $27B budget deficit.

[JoePhilly]

2. Surprised the aren't calling it "The Free Sonagram Act".

[Zoeisright]

3. Ah, Repukes. Terrorizing and torturing women is their specialty.

Are they going to hold the woman's eyelids open so she has to look at it? Are they going to tie her hands down so she can't put her fingers in her ears?

My God, these repukes make the torturers of the Spanish Inquisition look mild.

[rubberducky]

4. Why do men think they should decide what happens to a woman`s body?

Maybe, just maybe they would have a different opinion if they spoke openly to the women in thier lives. But, I guess these upright, conservative men would never listen to the little woman. Just imagine what would happen if one of these upright men intercepted the mail on the day that the "little woman`s" dildo arrived?

[golddigger]

5. Sucking up to the religious right again.

Knew this was going to happen when they came to power again. Nothing about jobs, just guns and abortion.

[Wounded Bear]

6. ...and of course these "tests" would be sooooo difficult to fake, right?

After all, we live in an age where nobody fakes an internet photo or video, right?