Posted on 03/11/2020 6:21:43 PM PDT by Morgana
SALT LAKE CITY — A bill to require a woman seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound passed the Utah State Senate, with every single woman lawmaker in the chamber walking off the floor.
Republican and Democrat, the female senators did not vote on House Bill 364. The bill was passed by men on a 16-7 vote.
"The six Republican and Democratic women of the senate decided to walk out in protest. It wasn’t planned, but a spontaneous decision to put an exclamation mark on our concerns about the invasive nature of that bill," Sen. Deidre Henderson, R-Spanish Fork, said in a text message to FOX 13. "I am very pro-life, and always vote for pro-life bills. But I’m concerned that we are overstepping with government mandates of medically unnecessary procedures."
Added Sen. Jani Iwamoto, D-Salt Lake City: "This was not Democrat and Republican but was women legislators saying it goes too far. It’s invasive and government intrusion at its worst."
Sen. Henderson proposed an amendment to remove a transvaginal ultrasound. The senator said she is pro-life, but felt the bill went too far. As the legislation was debated, several senators spoke of the invasive nature of a transvaginal ultrasound.
Sen. Henderson's amendment won the support of Democratic senators.
"I rise in support of something that stops government from intruding on someone's body," said Senate Minority Whip Luz Escamilla, D-Salt Lake City.
Senate Minority Leader Karen Mayne, D-West Valley City, stared down her colleagues on the floor and said "it makes me sad when women have to stand and expose their life stories."
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Utah FReepers you remember this next election!!!
Repeal 19
Wow.
Only land owners should be allowed to vote. Period.
What is so damn invasive about an ultra sound?
Pro-Life my ass. Primary all of them.
I’d be inclined to go with landowners who have passed some sort of test and have dependents for the state Senate, and people with dependents who pay more in taxes than they receive from the government in benefits for the state House, but who am I to judge?
I’d settle for an ultrasound. If it has to be a transvaginal ultrasound, which seems to be the case from the article, ‘d agree with the women.
“Six Utah Female Senators Support Murdering Babies” would be a more accurate headline.
This is an example why I’m reluctant to vote for women. Not all but the vast majority bond with their ‘sisters’ right or wrong. These nincompoops would deny a safe, diagnostic medical scanner such as widely used ultrasound is a travesty.
Walking kill holes.
YAWN
In other news, Utah mountains are snow covered...
What are they afraid of?
Proof of life?
I want these harridans to explain to me a non-invasive abortion procedure.
Bare foot and pregnant worked for thousands of years. .....just something to think about. ...
Good. I echo the repeal19
I’d be interested on some discussion on why a pre-abortion transvaginal ultrasond would be objecionable, seeing that the abortion itself is invasive and transvaginal... and the ultrasound is 100% non-risk while the abortion is quite the opposite...
I’m with you 110%.
I think that a regular non-transvaginal ultrasound should suffice to make the point, and consequently think that on the grounds of being minimally invasive, that should suffice—if the woman wants a transvaginal one, she should be able to opt for it instead.
While I think that this can be discussed, I think that most of the people on the thread are missing the point concerning what is being required.
They don’t want the girls having the abortions to see the babies they are killing. Those women won’t get their campaign contributions from planned parenthood if they don’t do whatever pp asks of them.
“Bare foot and pregnant worked for thousands of years. .....just something to think about. ...”
And it will again. They’ll be hispanic, or Muslim, or something else, but they won’t be our descendents.
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