Virginia Lawmakers Drop Invasive Ultrasound Requirement From Abortion Bill
After an understandable uproar over a mandatory procedure that federal law would consider rape, Virginia legislators have opted to forgo the invasive and most definitely uncomfortable procedure for women seeking abortions. On top of a big invasion of privacy for all women, the legislation could have re-traumatized women who sought abortions because of rapes. A meeting last night led legislators to reconsider the vagina wand provision, reaching a compromise that would make the procedure voluntary, but not mandatory, reports The Washington Post. We’re not sure what woman might choose to have an ultrasound used in this way, but, now they get a choice. And with that, the never-ending reproduction debates continue.
A victory for activists in the latest round of the culture wars.
Hurray! Also: I like that poster. That’s a fully formed human baby, alive and breathing and functioning on its own. YES, that baby deserves all the same rights afforded to human persons. But seeing as abortion doesn’t do anything to already-born babies, it’s kind a non-sequiter on this issue.
-Jess
Yep, all of this.
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