The local paper's opinion section had a piece that adds something interesting to this...
If this is accurate (and it seems like it ought to be reasonably verifiable), then a lot of the argument seems to just sort of spiral into itself and collapse, because there's no additional indignity there as a result of the law - just a requirement that the pictures be shown to the person receiving the abortion. Which still feels like an assumption of idiocy, but it still seems relatively non-threatening.
Given the established time and economic issues waiting periods can cause (think they came up in a discussion here before?), *that* part of the law is a real problem, and if you're going that far there's no reason to keep any of it...
-Morgan.
Quote:[...]sonograms are already done before every abortion. Agents of Planned Parenthood testified in the Texas Legislature that a pre-abortion sonogram is already the standard of care for a number of medical and health reasons.
If this is accurate (and it seems like it ought to be reasonably verifiable), then a lot of the argument seems to just sort of spiral into itself and collapse, because there's no additional indignity there as a result of the law - just a requirement that the pictures be shown to the person receiving the abortion. Which still feels like an assumption of idiocy, but it still seems relatively non-threatening.
Given the established time and economic issues waiting periods can cause (think they came up in a discussion here before?), *that* part of the law is a real problem, and if you're going that far there's no reason to keep any of it...
-Morgan.