What does it say about the state of our society when so many state legislators seem to make the passage of laws de-humanizing women their main priority, but newspapers are afraid of running comic strips satirizing these laws? Garry Trudeau, the brilliant political cartoonist, has produced a series on forced trans-vaginal sonogram laws in Texas, but papers in a number of the states with similar laws are not running it.
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How unpopular are ultrasound bills becoming? Legislators don’t even want to say the word anymore.
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Unable to say the word “vaginal,” one of the authors of the forced trans-vaginal ultrasound bill in Alabama says he will pull it. But the women of Alabama won’t stand for replacing it with forced abdominal ultrasounds or any other form of coercion.
A senator pushing for mandatory ultrasounds in Alabama claims his company wouldn’t benefit financially. But is he telling the truth?
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Does that make abortions performed by physicians “legal abortion by dismemberment?”
While there has been much fury recently over Virginia’s recently proposed transvaginal ultrasound bill, other states’ anti-choice lawmakers have chosen the equally unacceptable route of psychological—rather than physical—violation of women.
Although the 5th circuit has overruled the injunction on the law, there’s still no consensus on when it will be enforced.
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Yet another state wants to hop on the ultrasound bandwagon.
Judge Sparks is still fending off requests from anti-choice advocates wanting to testify in the Texas ultrasound case.
The Texas law would require all women to get an ultrasound before obtaining an abortion.
