Texas does everything big... including stupidity. They've forced me to weigh in on a topic that I usually avoid with every fiber of my being, abortion. I'm keeping my personal thoughts on the topic quiet intentionally, because they have no place in this article.
John Seago, Senior Legislative Associate with Texas Right To Life, says with the Republican supermajority, the bill has a strong chance of becoming law. “We do have a pro-life majority in the House,” says Seago. “We know that it’s the personal agenda of several legislators to get important pro-life legislation passed in this particular session.”
The purpose of the bill? To force women to look at a sonogram of their fetus before performing the procedure. This is the equivalent of torture, without medical need and is being pushed purely as a punitive action against women undergoing a legal procedure. To attack the procedure itself is one thing, but this isn't the way to make this particular point. This is a sour grapes reaction to failure to overturn Roe vs. Wade, and it was surely no coincidence that it was released on the 38th anniversary.
“If an ultrasound is required and medical necessary, we will absolutely provide that information, as would most physicians,” Tafolla (Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Spokesperson) says. “Politicians really have no business telling doctors how to practice medicine.” In addition to the sonogram, the bill would require women to hear a doctor explain the physical characteristics of the fetus as well as listen to audio of the heartbeat.
This is as wrong as it gets in my book.
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