SC Abortion bill...

[asterroc]

A South Carolina abortion bill would force women (including victims of rape and incest) to view an ultrasound of their fetus before allowing the abortion to be performed.

czarina69 expresses her outrage here, but what I really want to know is what about blind women? There should be an exemption for them, otherwise as the bill appears worded right now they would be unable to have abortions at all, as they are unable to view anything, let alone ultrasounds.

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[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I am screening all posts on this topic as I want the post to remain public, but I *do* want to discuss the issue. Give me a few minutes and a more locked post will appear on the topic.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I am screening all posts on this topic as I want the post to remain public, but I *do* want to discuss the issue. Give me a few minutes and a more locked post will appear on the topic.

[spazzy444.livejournal.com]

This just makes me sad.

When will the government learn that they cannot regulate what a woman does to her body, especially when it is something as important as having a child.

We keep going through cycles - like we never learn. First the government said - NO ABORTIONS - so woman performed home remedy types and often hurt themselves. Then the gov't said ok abortions, and now they are putting more and more regulations on them. The end result is more and more women attempting home remedies which in they can and do hurt themselves.

Abortions have been going on since the beginning of time. Women knew of certain herbs and whatnot would end pregnancies and used them.

I've known several (read as a couple) women who have had abortions, and it is often a very painful and emotionally trying experience but the costs and abilities to even have, much less take care of a child are prohibitive. Why are we trying to make it harder (not just legally but emotionally too).

People need to grow up and realize that choices we make are choices that we have to live with. YOU do not have to live with the choices I make about MY body. YOU should not have the right to decide what I can or cannot do with MY body.

BTW (I didn't read the article) who is going to pay for that ultrasound?

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

In the article...

"The state's three abortion clinics already perform ultrasounds, paid for by the woman seeking the procedure, to determine the fetus' age. The state's informed-consent law, passed in 1994, requires abortion doctors to tell women at least an hour before the operation the likely age of their fetus and give them information about fetal development and alternatives to abortion."