Community | February 12, 2011 | 41 comments

Bill to require women seeking abortions to get an ultrasound (but would allow them to "avert their eyes") barely fails

source: http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/article_c12e2e66-3631-11e0-bb8e-001cc4c03286.html

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HarukoHaruhara

http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/article_c12e2e66-3631-1...

This bill actually made it out of committee went to the full House in the Montana, which was taken over by Republicans in November. Republicans now hold a 68-32 edge in the House.

The bill would've required doctors performing abortions, under threat of a criminal conviction, to do an ultrasound. They would've been required to show the ultrasound to the woman seeking an abortion, again under threat of criminal prosecution. Language was inserted giving women the right, without fear of prosecution, to "avert their eyes" from the ultrasound.

One legislator called this "science fiction legislation." It was something straight out of Margaret Atwood's "Handmaid's Tale."

The bill failed in the House by a 53-47 vote. Several Republicans voted against it because it violated their pledge that the government should not be in the business of requiring medical procedures.

http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/article_c12e2e66-3631-11e0-bb8e-00...

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41 comments // Bill to require women seeking abortions to get an ultrasound (but would allow them to "avert their eyes") barely fails

  • riverratt50
    • -3
      riverratt50  

    • A bunch of Liberal baby killers. Is there no respect for the life of another? Oh yeah, that's not a life, it's just a speck of goo, just like you were before your mother made the horrible decision to NOT have you aborted. Sounds like a good alternative future don't it assholes..

    • 2 years ago
  • DonKeye
  • HarukoHaruhara
  • royulery
  • EdJoyProductions
    • +1
      EdJoyProductions  

    • "Fuck it. Put that bitch in the Clockwork Orange chair and make her name the image in the ultra sound. Eeeee ha!!!!!"

      I was possessed by a rabid Republican there for a minute. This shit has to stop.

    • 2 years ago
  • bambuu
    • 0
      bambuu  

    • These clowns are truly pissing me off by telling and/or forcing restrictions on a women's constitutional rights through government expansion using tax hikes to fund their anti-choice bill.

      No one can tell me that the Republicans are no better then the fundamental Islamicist who restrict women from having any rights.

    • 2 years ago
  • Darevalo
  • kcaid
  • hotusanews
  • Nephwrack
  • Perplexed_Rapture
  • Mr_Brainwash
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      Mr_Brainwash  

    • Republicans are their own worst enemy. It's as if they are searching for ways to make themselves more obsolete and irrelevant. Evolve... or perish.

    • 2 years ago
  • Alanna_Dosch
    • -3
      Alanna_Dosch  

    • OK so this is just an idea... I am not against abortion, but I think I've got an idea about how to lower the numbers of abortions from young women. What if when a young woman starts getting her period and has to start going to an anual check up anyway. That they must get the 10 year birth control manditory. It wouldn't give them a reason to have sex but to PROTECT unwanted children from suffering. Whether if they get an abortion OR get put into the system. The "system" that we pay for thru our taxes. Like I said just an idea....

    • 2 years ago
  • eternal_springs
    • +3
      eternal_springs  
    • Alanna_Dosch:

      I can already hear the right-wingers decrying that one. "That would give our daughters 'permission' to have sex!"

      They want to only teach abstinence, like that works.
      They want control over what women choose to do with their bodies.
      They really do NOT believe in choice, thinking that it's "my way or the highway."
      Pathetic fools they are.

      Preach small government, but act big government-as long as it's government doing what they think is how everyone else ought to behave.

      Amazing, I remember seeing somewhere that the abortion rate was lowest when Clinton was president. Makes me remember prohibition.....that didn't turn out so well, either.

    • 2 years ago
  • floydyboy
  • FabulousAt54
    • +1
      FabulousAt54  
    • Alanna_Dosch:

      Here's why your plan wouldn't (shouldn't) work; I made a fully conscious, thought out decision to start my family early. I had my first child soon after turning 19. I was married, too by then. Sure, that's pretty early even by the standards at the time (1975), but I did what I did because I wanted to and I was legally an adult quite capable of making this kind of decision. No one should have the ultimate say in how or when I start a family...
      the best way to help our young women make these decisions for themselves is to make sure they are 1) educated in all manner of reproduction and birth control; 2) understand the consequences of any decision they make; and 3) are fully aware of and access to ALL options -- should 'accidents' happen...

    • 2 years ago
  • EmperorThan
    • 0
      EmperorThan  

    • Oklahoma already passed this law a couple years ago. I think here they have to look at it though. Cus part of the law stipulated they had to 'review it' with their doctor.

    • 2 years ago
  • HarukoHaruhara
  • EthicalVegan
  • BadBadKitty
    • +2
      BadBadKitty  

    • The obsessive desire of many conservative right wing "christian" men (and some conservative women) to control women's bodies, continues. Conservatives fear women, one reason being that we are the ones who bring life into this world.
      They really cannot stand the fact that women actually control something (our bodies) that they themselves cannot control and "manage" for us.

    • 2 years ago
  • freecrack
    • +4
      freecrack  

    • ah yes.the people who are obsessed with smaller government, expanding its authority right up a womans cooch.but its ok, that isnt oppressive big brotherish, cuz they have the free right to avert thier eyes from the sonagram.

      arent we super pissed about the airport scanners as a personal intrusion? do the republicans know they are trying to legislate what we all agree we find unacceptable?

      now i know why the government doesnt work.the party that says it doesnt work is the reason it doesnt work.

    • 2 years ago
  • Jeremy_Benson
    • +6
      Jeremy_Benson  

    • I am consistently astounded that a group of people who claim to hold to a conservative ideal would dream of legislating abortions or marriage. And what kind of nonsense is this bill? Attempting to guilt people into doing things your way? How pathetic.

    • 2 years ago
  • PepeLepew
  • EthicalVegan
  • Saladin
    • +7
      Saladin  

    • "There you are ma'am, that's your baby!"

      "I don't see anything."

      "Well that's because it's only the first month, there's not much to see."

      "Why are you doing this again?"

      "I'm obligated by law. =("

      I'm surprised that small minority of Republicans actually held true to their "values" for this vote. At least it wasn't passed, even if it was for all the wrong reasons.

    • 2 years ago
  • timetide
  • Jeremy_Benson
  • freecrack
  • floydyboy
  • twinite
  • SeekNDestroyAgain
  • ClassicalGas
  • artemis6
    • +3
      artemis6  
    • SeekNDestroyAgain:

      Yes , females are simply possessions , breeders for the GOP . We need to be controlled because a lot of us will not breed with them , voluntarily . This is how a coward or someone very short on charm , might react , if he had been rejected , repeatedly . One would think they see the benefit in legal prostitution , but NO , Independent business women are still a threat . Even if they WOULD give them the time of day . People small minded as this Bill , would bring back slavery in an instant . Everyone who voted for this should be banned from "public service" , for the rest of their natural lives . If anyone actually read this , thank you for letting me vent , I just loathe these decrepit , simpering .....

    • 2 years ago
  • EthicalVegan
  • ClassicalGas
    • +8
      ClassicalGas  

    • The Handmaid's Tale,indeed! The American Taliban, with their perpetual bleatings for 'freedom', continues the agenda to assert total control over women's bodies. The 'Solid South' is trying to rise again.

      Thanks for posting this article, Haruko!

    • 2 years ago
  • Child_of_Corn
  • Blueshound9
    • +2
      Blueshound9  

    • "The bill failed in the House by a 53-47 vote. Several Republicans voted against it because it violated their pledge that the government should not be in the business of requiring medical procedures."

      I wonder if these were newly elected republicans.

    • 2 years ago
  • floydyboy
  • NC54
    • +9
      NC54  

    • oh... but the self-righteous GOP would never want the public to see how our tax $$$ are spent against humanity in other countries.

    • 2 years ago
  • rf_dude
    • +10
      rf_dude  

    • The hidden agenda is the added cost of an ultrasound driving the cost of an abortion even higher, placing the procedure beyond the reach of many who can barely afford the procedure in the first place.

      Plus the added inconvenience of going for the ultrasound, an unnecessary part of an abortion procedure, in the first place.

      Bravo to the House Members who voted this bill down!

    • 2 years ago
  • EthicalVegan

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