There is a challenge in the works to the newly-enacted Texas Forced Sonogram law.
"A national abortion rights group has filed suit in federal court to stop implementation of a new Texas law that requires women seeking an abortion to undergo a sonogram and have details of the fetal image explained to them. Claiming the amendment to the state's Woman's Right To Know Act is unconstitutionally vague and violates physicians' freedom of speech, the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights filed the motion for a preliminary injunction in Austin Thursday...Under the provisions of the amendment, sponsored in the Senate by Katy Republican Dan Patrick, women seeking abortions must obtain a sonogram and listen as physicians describe the image. The law also provides for women to look at the sonogram and listen to fetal heartbeats, but they have the option to decline."
The issue here is not abortion. Abortion is legal.
The issue is that the State of Texas is forcing free citizens to undergo a medical procedure that may well not be wanted. If Texas can mandate one medical procedure, why can't it force citizens to undergo other unwanted medical investigations and treatments?
We hear a lot about individual rights and small goverment in Texas.
It seems that these alleged beliefs don't extend to Texas women.
We can't force people to buy health insurance, but we can force then to have an unnecessary medical procedure. If this is small government, I have a small ass.
We can't force people to buy health insurance, but we can force then to have an unnecessary medical procedure. If this is small government, I have a small ass.
If there is a God in heaven, this detestable bill will be overturned.
Honorable mention, however, goes to the Kansas legislature for their reprehensible legislation this year.
Witch, I love you!
This whole forced sonogram thing makes me so mad I could spit nails! As does the whole "waiting period" issue.
In their zeal to harass and control women disguised as a "right to know", they conveniently leave out the fact that some 61% of elective abortions are given to women that have 1 or more living children already.
Now, convince me that a woman who has already given birth at least once before does not know what is going on in her body! She's been through it before! She knows, dammit, she knows!
Stop treating women like we don't have a brain in our pretty little heads and that we need a man to make all the important decisions for us because we are simply too simple to think for ourselves.
(Disclaimer: I know that not all men think women are too stupid to make their own decisions. Just the ones passing moronic laws like this one.)
I have posted this on another site...
“As I woman in Texas, I am so completely offended and angry that our "wonderful Gov. Goodhair and the Texas lege." have decided that they, and they alone, know what is best for adult women.
This is an outrageous law - and I am NOT a fan of abortion - but I will be dam*ed if I will tell another woman what she should do!"