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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is in-frickin-sane!!! Pennsylvania poised to enact most restrictive abortion law of 2012
In addition to mandating the much-maligned transvaginal ultrasound requirements since rejected by the state of Virginia, Pennsylvania legislators proposed strongly encouraging women to view and listen to the ultrasounds, forcing technicians to give the women personalized copies of the results and mandating how long before any abortion the ultrasound much be preformed and thats just for starters.That last requirement has already been passed and struck down in Louisiana, partially over concerns of patients privacy and potential risks for women in abusive relationships, Nash said.
This bill definitely suffers the legislators-playing-doctor problem. There are a number of requirements in this bill that are medically unnecessary, Nash said, pointing out that so many requirements packed into the 22-page bill could make it logistically difficult for abortion providers to comply with them. This bill is something that would be unacceptable to most women seeking an abortion.
Additionally, Nash points out that the length of the legislation hides bizarre and unprecedented requirements, such as asking women who gets an ultrasound more than 14 days before her abortion to view a state-approved video on fetal gestation. The bill, unlike many other ultrasound requirements, does offer exceptions for victims of rape and incest; the bill does not require victims to have reported the incidents to the authorities.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/27/pennsylvania-poised-to-enact-most-restrictive-abortion-law-of-2012/
Swede
(33,282 posts)Good grief this is getting scary.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)This is just all to fire up the base so they will vote in November.
Warpy
(111,332 posts)and that it will turn into a baby 9 months later when it is born, something women seeking an abortion have already acknowledged when they seek to terminate the whole process.
Personally, I think we need to bring tar and feathers back for doctor playing politcians.
toddwv
(2,830 posts)They are attempting to shame and humiliate the women into submitting to their beliefs.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)make that hot tar and feathers.
2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)Where did I see that before?
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)You know, re-education Gulags?
These people scare the shit outta me.
atreides1
(16,093 posts)To describe what they really are!
We know that the Republicans are racist, as seen by the voter ID laws they've enacted...and we know that they are anti-woman...we also know that they support corporations over the people of this country.
Racist, bigots, anti-women, anti-gay, but I guess until they start putting people in camps...
beyurslf
(6,755 posts)Selatius
(20,441 posts)neverforget
(9,436 posts)and her doctor.....and in her. Government small enough to fit in a uterus.
nobodyspecial
(2,286 posts)I guess the concern over big government does not extend to women's rights over their bodies.
Thrill
(19,178 posts)A 10 point win for the Republican in the governor race? What happened to the Democrats? This is what happens when you sit elections out or crossover and vote for the puke
suffragette
(12,232 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)What?
Oh, never mind then..
Ishoutandscream2
(6,663 posts)Vinca
(50,303 posts)which is what that transvaginal ultrasound law is.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Corbett must go!
How many boys were raped by Jerry Sandusky because Tom Corbett was more worried about protecting Penn State and running for Governor?
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Not much room left for an embryo with all the religious hypocrites setting up camp in there.
timesup
(88 posts)So the Reps are in EPIC FAIL mode and don't give a hoot at this point, and trying to get so much garbage to be repealed, that so much time and money will be wasted addressing this crap that actual good policies will be slowed, whilst they try to scramble themselves
back into power, do not let these turds ever forget this pompous bovine feces they tried to pull: VOTE!
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This is the only reason I could come up with for this stupidity, other than trying to drive healthcare costs higher?!!?
PCIntern
(25,577 posts)Wotta dump...and I LIVE here, was BORN here, and EDUCATED here.
Orrex
(63,220 posts)Lots of wilderness between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia with just the small island of State College in the middle.
tropicanarose
(240 posts)that this being an election year the Rethugs are doing their best to rev up their troops with anti-welfare, anti-abortion rhetoric. Any kind of legislation of this kind will ultimately be struck down. I have to believe that--we won't stand for it! however,it will serve its purpose--uniting the right into thinking that the left doesn't represent their "morals"
I know that this legislation isn't Roe v. Wade, but in speaking to the broader picutre I am sick and tired of the entire abortion issue. We had EIGHT years of President Bird Brain compounded by the the Roberts court that put that idiot in the White House and Roe v. Wade was NEVER overturned. Why the hell do people think that it will be different now? It isn't going to happen.
Just like social security isn't going to be abolished.......these are political hot button issues and they play the public like puppets. WHAT BS
The people of PA will never stand for this horse manure!!
starroute
(12,977 posts)I'm never sure if these things do any good -- but it can't hurt. And though most of the signers are Pennsylvanians, it isn't required.
http://signon.org/sign/stop-pennsylvanias-mandatory.fb1?source=s.fb&r_by=468387
MadrasT
(7,237 posts)It can't hurt. *And* I do live in PA.
Thanks for the link.
DiverDave
(4,886 posts)This should be it's own post.
blitzburgh55
(411 posts)because I love my hometown Pittsburgh so much. Time to squish Philly and Pit together and get rid of the middle.
October
(3,363 posts)evilhime
(326 posts)is making Pennsylvania the non abortion state - virtually making it unavailable without making it illegal contrary to the Federal ruling. Fortunately other more reasonable states like MD and NJ etc. are not that long a drive ... inconvenient for sure but there. I love the way they phrase it as offering women the "opportunity" to get this procedure and see the images whereas in reality it is mandated. What is really sad is that a woman sponsored it . . . talk about a crusading <expletive deleted>. As I saw in another article today... care about them before their born, but don't care about educating the children, helping to provide for them, etc. What hypocritical buggers!
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)small government huh? I guess women are considered property to the gop males. How about outlawing "oral sex" while they are at it, I mean isn't it killing sperms? How about only allowing 50 years old men and under to obtain enhancement drugs because why would older men need it? Condoms should also be outlawed as well. Younger men should be subject to a penis probe to make sure its working properly, seriously.
These loony goppers are so enthralled about womens' reproductive organs and so concerned about making babies, but where the hell are they once the baby is born?
radhika
(1,008 posts)Seriously, each Red State is trying to up each other is how far they will go assaulting the dignity of women. Not to mention everything else they are doing.
I think John Waters should make a movie about this bizarre era. A political take on the 'world's dirtiest person competition' that launched his infamous Pink Flamingos.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)The people are really effed up there.
Returning Survivor
(13 posts)How Many Centuries Back Can Women Be Thrown? Repulsive!
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Brettongarcia
(2,262 posts)These are the most likely suspects.
Since there are dozens of states, considering the same kinds of bills at the same time?" Obviously there's a coordinated, systematic, and secret campaign at work here.
Most likely suspect by far: Fr. Frank Pavone of "Priests for Life"; a fulltime, well staffed, "one issue" anti-abortion agency. Originally chartered by the bishops. Even though it has long since descended into the kind of narrow, dis"proportionate" "one-issue" advocacy organization that the Cardinals, if not the bishops, often condemned. (Card. McCarrick; Card. Bernardin; Card. Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI).
What are they really? In their religious fixation on just one issue, they amount to a CULT; the Embryo Cult, we should begin calling it.
For a 700-page white paper, offering 200 religious and rational arguments against anti-abortionism, EWTN? See http://brettongarcia.wordpress.com/
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