re: #253 lostlakehiker

Should juries in death penalty cases have to watch an execution, stem to stern, and then watch an autopsy, blow by blow slide by slide, before being allowed to vote the death penalty? There’s decisions that are hard enough without skull-fucking the person who’s making the call. You do realize why firing squads have more than one shooter, and some of the rounds issued are blanks?

Interesting that you compare abortion to the death penalty. Let it be noted, that is your analogy, not mine. But, to accurately answer your question, no I don’t believe the mother should be forced to watch an ultrasound as the fetus is removed. And, yes, a similar level of consideration to your jury should be made prior to electing for an abortion. That is not to say that most women aren’t already making that consideration with or without an ultrasound. It is to say that regulating an ultrasound to be a part of that consideration is not the evil it’s made out to be here. Thus, someone wouldn’t need to be a whack-job to support such a measure. I expect better from a community that spends so much time railing against the flippant defamations made by Palin, Beck, and the rest of their gang.