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Earlier this month, a bill requiring women to receive an ultrasound before they can receive an abortion passed the Virginia senate, and it recently cleared a state house committee with an overwhelming majority. As Dahlia Lithwick explains, the effect of this bill would be to force most women to undergo a stunningly invasive procedure for no medical reason whatsoever. Because the great majority of abortions occur during the first 12 weeks, that means most women will be forced to have a transvaginal procedure, in which a probe is inserted into the vagina, and then moved around until an ultrasound image is produced.
In case Lithwicks description doesnt completely drive home what this means, here is a depiction of the procedure that women would be forced to endure under the Virginia bill:
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/02/17/427778/virginia-poised-to-enact-state-sponsored-rape-law-forcing-women-to-be-vaginally-probed-before-abortions/
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)one_voice
(20,043 posts)Great Job!
Galraedia
(5,092 posts)rocktivity
(44,749 posts)rocktivity
rocktivity
(44,749 posts)prairierose
(2,147 posts)GOP and their real agenda.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)for all the talking they do about keeping government out of your private life and individuals freedoms they just want the government in women's vaginas.
Can't believe this is happening. wtf. WTF in CAPS!!!!
Hutzpa
(11,461 posts)love it.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)I hope you are posting this everywhere. Well done.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)time for some culture jamming.
handmade34
(22,819 posts)where the f**k is the outrage??!! i am in Virginia working right now and where aren't people in the streets??? NEVER did I think I would see this again...
rustydog
(9,186 posts)saras
(6,670 posts)Maybe with a prominent republican face photoshopped onto the end of the wand.
CrispyQ
(37,616 posts)k&r