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Anti-abortion bill to show Pennsylvania women fetus ultrasound advances
The legislature is moving to pass the orwellianly titled "Women's Right to Know Act," which would "require ultrasounds before abortions and then give women 'the right' to look at them."
Anti-abortion bill to show Pennsylvania women fetus ultrasound advances
The legislature is moving to pass the orwellianly titled "Women's Right to Know Act," which would, as my editor Samantha Melamed notes, “require ultrasounds before abortions and then give women 'the right' to look at them.”
Doctors would also be required to invite women to listen to the fetal heartbeat.
“Ultrasounds,” says bill sponsor State Rep. Kathy Rapp, “dispel the myth that abortion is only about removing a ‘clump of cells’ and that information in itself is absolutely critical to every mother’s ability to make a fully informed decision.”
As the legislature enters its final session before budget hearings begin (more on the education and welfare gutting proposed budget here), Pennsylvanians for Choice, a coalition of abortion rights groups, released a statement condemning the bill. Last week, the House Health Committee passed HB 1077.
“This legislation is an overreach in the extreme,” said Sari Stevens, executive director of Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania Advocates, a coalition member. “It’s based on the belief that women are not smart enough or emotionally mature enough to make decisions about their healthcare on their own. This is an insult to women everywhere.”
The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, another coalition member, says the measure might be unconstitutional.
“The government cannot force doctors to deliver its anti-abortion message,” said Andy Hoover, legislative director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania. “The constitution protects us from compelled speech.”
Anti-abortion politicians control Harrisburg, and the ultrasound bill comes just two months after Governor Tom Corbett signed legislation that will require abortion clinics to spend millions of dollars on renovations that are not medically necessary or shut down (longer analysis of that legislation here).
Last month, Rep. Babette Josephs told CP: "It's a very thinly disguised attempt to make sure that it's difficult for women to get abortions, to require abortion providers to perform actions that are not medically necessary, that have nothing to do with high-quality medical care, and which are designed only to make it difficult for women to access medically safe abortion, which is their Constitutional right."
The bill should also include how a mother drowned her five kids in a bathtub, how one was on TV crying about her kids when she put them in a car and had it slide into a lake where they drowned; one little girl stated her mother used to put her in the oven and bake her like a turkey. I guess there is room to show them being flushed down a toilet, put in a garbage bag and thrown in a dumpster - and we could also include a little of Ireland, where nuns, brothers and priests physically, mentally and sexually abused 17,000 Catholic orphans (you know, when the mother was not married but had the pro life baby and then made billions, not millions off of them and according to the Irish government STASHED the money around the world, and don't forget the nuns in Spain who told mothers their babies died, and sold them. That would be fair and balanced.— Bob Washick
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