Posted on 03/19/2009 11:02:16 PM PDT by malkee
AUSTIN – Emotions ran high Thursday as lawmakers had their first hearing on a bill that would require women seeking abortions to first get a sonogram of the fetus.
Abortion opponents said the bill by Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, which would force doctors to perform the sonograms and check a heartbeat monitor at least two hours before the abortion, will remind women that they're considering terminating a human life. They say it still gives women a choice: the bill, as it's currently written, lets them to decide whether to see the image or listen to the heartbeat.
"Sonograms are very good for the women to see to know they have something there. They can make a choice of whether or not to keep that baby," said Elizabeth Ross, with the Austin Pregnancy Resource Center. "If that's not available to them, one day down the road when they do decide to have children ... what happened in the past is going to come back to them."
Information is a good thing before making a decision. A sonogram will not hurt anyone or deprive anyone of their rights. The only people opposed are those that want women - and girls - to blindly kill the clump of cells growing inside their bodies. To see and hear that those cells comprise an actual baby would be too much for the murdering sluts and their evil enablers.
Destroying the world is child's play, compared to child murder.
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They should be making informed decisions. The truth can hurt.
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