I’m pro life and live in TX, but this is a stupid law. Who pays for all the sonograms? What if I don’t want that machine put on my belly? The Supremes will rule this stupid also. Just costing us a lot of money in TX for some politician’s idea to help him get elected.
Are you for real?
Who pays for all the sonograms?
(The same people who pay for the abortions these sonograms are designed to prevent)
What if I don’t want that machine put on my belly?
(Then don’t go to an abortion clinic to have forceps put on your uterus)
The abortionist routinely does a sonogram before and during the abortion. There is no extra cost to show the sonogram to the mother.
I am concerned that the abortionists will intentionally do an out-of-focus, poor quality sonogram to show the client, while hiding from her the higher quality sonograms used to guide the abortion. Some abortionists already do this, or so I have heard. Of course, the state can check on this, much the same way the state enforces liquor laws by sending a minor into a liquor store. Just send in a pregnant undercover agent, and look at the quality of the sonogram she is given. It should be easy enough to compare with the sonograms she gets from her legitimate OB-gyn doctor, or with reference sonograms.
The women and girls are already getting and paying for the sonogram. No halfway competent doctor would instrumentalize the uterus without a real-time sonogram.
The sonogram is routinely done by a tech a couple of days before the abortion in order to stage the pregnancy (to determine how much to charge, too).
The routine external uterine sonogram done during the abortion helps the abortionist find the baby and decreases the chance he or she will puncture the uterine wall with the instruments inserted in the uterus. It also helps prove the abortion is complete and there’s no longer any living baby in the pelvis or bits in the uterus.
Can you imagine someone complaining because the doctor explained the xray showing their broken bone, the heart sonogram before the doc did a catheterization, or the results of the cath before a heart bypass? None of which are “elective.”
Texas has long had very explicit informed consent language mandated by State law and laid out by regulation for hysterectomy, sterilization, radiation therapy, and electric shock therapy.
However, the law will allow women and girls to have a sonogram done elsewhere (like a pregnancy assistance center), as long as the results are explained to them by the physician who will perform the abortion. That physician also has to make the heartbeat audible to the woman.
If you are pro-life, what would you be doing being treated at an abortion mill?