Reply #42: Why do we need a law to give women a choice they already have? [View All]

If she wants to see an ultrasound, she can ask her OB/GYN for one. This is just a transparent attempt to make these clinics shell out for extra equiptment and to force often already traumatized women to assert (yet again) that they do in fact, for all and for keeps, no take-backs with cherries on top want to have an abortion. It's fucking condescending.

Why not a law requiring doctors to show X-rays to their patients before setting a broken bone? And then they can have a serious conversation about the long-term physical and psychological impact of having a cast. And then they'll have to wait for 48 hours to make sure they really wouldn't prefer to keep the broken arm.

Women who make it into an abortion clinic have made up their minds already. Is it so much to ask to give them a little credit for making their own decision and not double guess it over and over again?