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from:msnbc.comTexas lawmakers pass sonogram abortion requirement
Seeded on Tue May 10, 2011 12:24 AM EDT (msnbc.com)
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This is unfair. I'm all for informed consent, but to legally require a full sonogram, with a verbal description as well as seeing the results, the day before an abortion smacks of pro-life propaganda-and I'm the kind who personally wouldn't abort!
I agree. I too think informed consent is important but this amounts to duress. I personally would not abort either but luckily I am not in a position of having to make that choice. Forcing a woman to listen to a description of the fetus and the heart beat is akin to laying a guilt trip on the woman. While I concede that there are women who use the freedom to choose callously I believe the majority think long and hard about the choices they make and do not need the additional stressor of going through a narrated sonogram.
This is the kind of crap our government would rather spend time on rather than address the truly important issues facing our country. They will continue to beat this horse to take our attention from what needs to be addressed.
How unsurprisingly absurd. Of course it was Texas. Don't they have more important things to worry about right now?
I agree. Texas is among the worse when it comes to things like education, elder care, mental health/mental retardation care, teen pregnancy rates, etc. This issue should be the least of their worries.
It would only be marginally fair if the state paid for the sonogram.
This requirement will be promptly invalidated by the courts.
No kidding. If the mom who's gunna abort really wants to abort then she shouldn't have to pay for the sonogram. That's just nonsense.