re: #74 Gus 802

Think about it. This is a state mandated medical procedure. It is done for the purpose of intimidating women into a level of guilt in the hope of them deciding not to have an abortion. It’s not done for the health of the woman. It is mandated in order to make these women feel guilty.

Now, were have we heard anger regarding “state mandated” medicine before?

Irony.

Absolutely. I’ve posted this before in re: the ultrasound legislations:

But what if a woman doesn’t want an ultrasound, and there’s no pressing clinical reason for her to have it? Four states—Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Oklahoma—have taken the galling step of requiring her to have one regardless of need. They recently passed laws that go beyond offering ultrasounds to mandating them. Oklahoma’s new statute dictates that either the doctor performing the abortion or a “certified technician working in conjunction” with that doctor do the ultrasound, “provide a simultaneous explanation of what the ultrasound is depicting,” and also “display the ultrasound images so that the pregnant woman may view them.” The law goes so far as to specify the doctor’s script: The physician must describe the heartbeat and the presence of internal organs, fingers, and toes. The patient then has to certify in writing that the doctor or technician duly did all of this before the abortion. She can avert her eyes from the screen, the statute allows. Maybe the legislators should have also thought to mention putting her hands over her ears.

TWENTY states have ultrasound legislation now.
In Ultrasound, Abortion Fight Has New Front