This is the country I live in

[moonwise]

Next month the U.S. Supreme Court will hear argument about the obscene government overreach that is the individual mandate in President Obama’s health care law. Yet physical intrusion by government into the vagina of a pregnant woman is so urgently needed that the woman herself should be forced to pay for the privilege.

Virginia’s Proposed Ultrasound Law Is an Abomination

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[skurtchasor.livejournal.com]

Warning: I'm putting on the Angry Moderate hat.

While I completely agree that mandatory ultrasounds are a steaming crock, trying to frame the counterargument in terms of the national healthcare debate is pretty damn foolish. Yes, let's take the issue of forced penetration, something that everyone who isn't a fundamentalist nutcase can very confidently oppose, thank you very much, and muddy the waters with a tie-in to the more contentious issue of the individual mandate, because that's a great way to win support for our position!

Oh, the article is from Slate. What I meant to say was "Kudos for again pointing out how the other side are a bunch of hypocrites, because that's the Most Important Thing."

[arafel.livejournal.com]

I agree that Slate is hardly an unbiased source; they lean heavily to the left. But, I enjoy reading their articles, so.

IMO, making the decision to have an abortion is hard enough without it being law to have a probe shoved up your cooter. It's a very clinical and uncomfortable moment. I speak from experience.

[skurtchasor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we're pretty much in agreement there (even though as a Testicled American, I can't speak to this from personal experience). What I'm saying is that this an important issue, and a lot more people are likely to support it if it isn't hijacked by the debate over the individual mandate.

Now if you want some real right-wing hypocrisy, Rick Santorum supports mandatory ultrasounds under the guise that it provides more information to women about their pregnancy, but Rick Santorum opposes prenatal testing, even though....you guessed correctly, it provides more information to women about their pregnancy.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Santorum apparently doesn't realize that ultrasounds are used, in part, to detect fetal abnormalities.

It's a twisted sort of logic he has. He's pro-life (natch), and I know one of his daughters has a trisomy. The NIH statistics show that an overwhelming number of parents who are informed that their child has a severe chromosomal defect choose to abort. It's something like 85 - 90%. So, if the parents are never told that their child has a chromosomal defect, they won't abort. Never mind that some of these defects result in stillborn infants, or children who live short and painful lives.

What an asshole.