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Kathleen Sebelius And The Appeasement Strategy
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Thu Dec 10
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But don't let the facts get in the way of your outrage.
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While it sounds bad, it seems like this actually changes nothing.
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this particular law requires the physician to offer the woman a chance to view it. Again, not harmful on the surface, but another example of government intrusion into a medical procedure.
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It could very well be legit, but at the same time I felt this horrible galump plop in my stomach that this was not so on the up and up and vulnerable women may be falling into backstreet abortions. And then I thought of Jez, and how we get up in arms because some old farts somehwere want to take the right of choice away from women, the right to safe and legal women's health which includes abortion.
Requiring or not to see scans of a foetus is one little step more toward the rendering of a woman's womb as a more important incubator for breeding than a woman herself. This, viewed in larger societal strokes, and that notice on the electric pole, gives me shudders. Keep fighting the fight, Jezzies.
03/30/09
Because, in all the stories I've come across, I haven't see anyone being forced.
I'm really curious about this aspect of the whole thing actually.
03/30/09
It's even worse b/c many legislators draft this in terms of abusive relationships, ignoring the evidence that shows that abusive men are actually much more likely to coerce their partner into continuing a pregnancy rather than aborting.
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You won't be so lucky anymore:(
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[www.kansas.com]
The bill, dubbed the Woman's Right to Know Act, SB 238, also would require abortion clinics to offer more information -- in pamphlets and videos -- about fetal development.
The clinics would have to post large signs notifying women that they cannot be forced to have an abortion.
Women would not be required to see the images or hear the heartbeat.
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By requiring women to be further educated about forced abortion, there's a chance you might be able to actually uncover cases of abuse, or expose their abuser.
There are facets to these abortion arguments, and, frankly, freeing up more information and providing more educational material is NOT a universally bad thign!
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Tick Tock, Tick Tock.
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Maybe this is the ONE case where a majority of anti-choicers can acknolwedge that the woman's health is important?
Or is it motivated by some weird, twisted logic that says an abortion in this case is a way of punishing the rapist by denying him offspring? (Whoah, had never thought of it like that before and am now intrigued by this idea.)
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an ultrasound is necessary to determine fetal development, which can affect the procedure quite a bit depending on the said development.
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