It's not a choice...it's a baby.
The Texas legislature is debating a bill that would require women seeking abortions to view a sonogram of their fetus before killing it.
While I think abortion is an abhorrent act and the absolute worst possible decision any woman can make in regards to her pregnancy, I still oppose this bill.
Abortion is still legal in Texas. Period. This is unnecessary government intrusion into a legal activity.
AUSTIN — Lawmakers are poised to add more restrictions to a woman’s right to an abortion as the Texas House today is expected to begin considering a bill requiring women to get a sonogram at least 24 hours before having an abortion.
The bill, passed by the House State Affairs Committee last week, would require doctors to inform a woman that she has a right to view a sonogram and hear a fetal heartbeat.
The woman would be allowed to sign an affidavit exempting her from viewing the sonogram or hearing a heartbeat, but she still would be required to listen to the doctor’s explanation of the sonogram.
The House bill, sponsored by Rep. Sid Miller, R-Stephenville, is more stringent than the version that won Senate approval two weeks ago.
Miller’s bill requires the doctor to perform a sonogram at least 24 and no more than 72 hours before an abortion is performed. The waiting period ensures the woman must make two trips to the abortion facility to go through with the procedure.
The Senate version would require the woman to receive a sonogram two hours before an abortion, allowing the procedure to occur the same day.
Though I completely disagree with the Houston Chronicle’s amazingly biased lede that this restricts a woman’s right to an abortion — even if this bill passes, a woman will still have every right to have an abortion as she does today.
Now, let’s talk about making sure that zero tax dollars are ever used to fund this atrocity, and I’m all on board.
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Sorry, Robbie, but I have to part company with you on this one. There is no reason that obtaining an abortion should be easier than getting a concealed carry permit to exercise my Second Amendment rights. My ownership of a firearm does not guarantee a murder, abortion does. Or that the woman should have to spend as much time in a clinic because of a sonigram that would be equal to getting her driver’s license.
Abortion was intended to be “legal and rare”. Now it is legal, and thousands of babies are murdered in their mother’s wombs every year. New York revealed that over 40% of all pregnancies in that state end in abortion. The practice of abortion is going to go down in our history as a crime against humanity on a par with slavery.
If you want to kill your kid, don’t you think you should at least know what that kid looks like before you do a snuf-film action? If you are going to have a tumor cut out, the doctor (if he is worth his salt) is going to show you the x-rays of that tumor so you know why he is cutting you open. He should also explain to you the procedure he is going to use during surgery. Why are women not being told that their babies are going to be torn apart via suction procedures or burned to death with a saline solution? Because the Pro-choice (now there’s an oxymoron) crowd have fought to keep women in the dark about what actually happens during an abortion.
I will go even farther; all high school students should be shown the film Silent Scream. The hell with An Inconvenient Truth. Lets inform kids what abortion really entails.
Abortion is not pro-choice. The choice, according to the Gottmacher Institution (an arm of Planned Parenthood) claims that incest and rape account for only <0.1% of all abortions. LESS THAN 1 PERCENT. So the choice to risk being impregnated was made PRIOR to conception, not after.
Any Texas bill that makes people INFORMED has my support. Sonigrams are just as informative as x-rays to a cancer patient. Let's make it as hard as possible to legally murder another human being.
I don’t like the idea of state funds being used for abortions or sonograms, but I do support the sonogram requirement, for one simple reason. A large percentage of women who have seen the sonogram images before an abortion have changed their minds. It is no longer “non-viable tissue” after the viewing.
I agree with retire05, the nearly 40 million “legal” abortions performed since Roe v Wade is a national disgrace and debases our culture even further.