When a woman in Alabama seeks an abortion procedure, she already has to sign that her doctor has performed an ultrasound and that she either viewed the ultrasound image or rejected seeing it. But state Sen. Clay Scofield (R) is pushing SB 12, a bill in the Alabama legislature that would mandate the physician ‘to perform an ultrasound, provide verbal explanation of the ultrasound, and display the images to the pregnant woman before performing an abortion.
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
Alabama Bill Could Require Women To Undergo Invasive Ultrasound To Convince Them ‘To Keep The Child’
Author: AMANDA PETERSON BEADLE
Source: Think Progress
Publication Date: Feb 27, 2012 at 10:33 am
Link: Alabama Bill Could Require Women To Undergo Invasive Ultrasound To Convince Them ‘To Keep The Child’
Source: Think Progress
Publication Date: Feb 27, 2012 at 10:33 am
Link: Alabama Bill Could Require Women To Undergo Invasive Ultrasound To Convince Them ‘To Keep The Child’
Stephan: This transvaginal business is not just something happening in Virginia., as this Alabama bill makes clear. There really is something sexually disturbed about the Theocratic Rightists. The idea of a government mandated medically useless procedure requiring sticking a dildo shaped foot long instrument into a woman's body and moving it around simply, as an act of legislation simply wouldn't occur to a person who was sexually healthy.
