re: #244 The Ghost of a Flea

Two things:

One, I’m disgusted by this whole matter. On my Facebook I can see physician friends reacting negatively, and the pushback they’re getting from people who, in more delicate words, are saying the same thing as Loesch: that since abortion is an “elective” process that it’s A-OK to stack on a procedure for purely punitive purposes. It’s been a while since I’ve used the word “revanchist” to describe right-wing politics, but it remains apt.

Two: Is the intravaginal ultrasound procedure 100% safe? No chance of anything going wrong? Because to my mind there’s no such thing as a totally safe procedure, and it’s going to be a legal nightmare for the state if something occurs in the course of a “mandated” ultrasound. Not that the people pushing through this bill will think or care about the implications of this…either to the individual subjected or to the larger system that will have to deal with it when something goes (inevitably) wrong.

Fair enough, we should propose legislation that requires people who want to attend church to have to be anally probed by atheists on the way in. Going to church is legal, but since it is elective there is no reason why we can’t stack on something punitive, or pleasurable depending on your particular persuasion (my guess is most churchgoers would consider it punitive.)