Posted on 04/17/2005 9:31:06 PM PDT by eeevil conservative
Legislation Seeking to Criminalize Ultrasounds without Doctor's Order Moves in Springfield
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
By The Leader-Springfield Bureau
SPRINGFIELD -- Pro-abortion forces won a victory in the Illinois House Wednesday as State Rep. Rosemary Mulligan (R-Park Ridge) successfully passed HB 2492 which would make it a criminal offense for an ultrasound to be administered without a doctor's order
Mulligan said that Planned Parenthood and the Illinois State Medical Society encouraged her to sponsor the legislation because there was a concern about long exposure of fetuses to ultrasound waves.
"There's a new little industry that does ultrasound videos on babies before they're born for entertainment purposes," the Cook County legislator told her colleagues. "There is concern about the neurological development with long exposure."
When asked by State Rep. Randy Hultgren (R-Wheaton) whether or not it would effect crisis pregnancy centers who have recently begun doing ultrasounds on women considering abortion, Mulligan said she wasn't familiar with the practice in those agencies, and deferred a clear response.
"I am assuming those agencies have doctor's orders to perform the ultrasounds, so I don't know whether this would change their policies or not," she responded.
Mulligan, who is a strong abortion advocate, said that an ultrasound should not be done for political reasons to make anyone change their minds about any particular purpose.
Hultgren called the proposal "disconcerting" that the bill was being promoted as a minor bill. "This is very serious," Hultgren said. "I encourage everyone to vote no. A person shouldn't be charged as a criminal for doing a two minute ultrasound on an expectant woman."
State Rep. Coreen Gordon (D-Kankakee) asked for specific studies indicating the harm an unborn baby would face for prolonged exposure to ultrasound.
Mulligan said that the Federal Drug Administration had warned that muscle and nerve development could be affected by long exposure.
"We should be concerned about the long term health of the fetus," Mulligan, who has voted against a ban on partial birth abortion, said.
The bill passed with bi-partisan support with 76 yes votes and 32 no votes.
Six voted present.
The legislation would make it a Class A misdemeanor for an ultrasound to be performed without a doctor's orders.
It now moves to the Illinois Senate, where it will go through committee before a floor vote.
I don't even know where to begin. What as load of crap. The abortion mills are supposedly "concerned" for the child? Evil SOB's!
Wait
Pro Abortionists want to do away with ultrasounds because it might harm the fetus they're showing the mother so it'll be easier to kill it?
I'm confused
Please help!
We need to get ahold of the SENATORS RIGHT AWAY!
At the heart of this is that an ultrasound image portrays the humanity of what ghouls call a "lump of tissue"; it reminds folks that a human being is growing and developing within them - the abortion mills do not want anyone to stop and think of the "cell mass" as a human being deserving of a chance to live and breathe.
Next week, Rosemary Mulligan plans on introducing legislation that will make it a felony to ask anyone if they want to feel the baby kick.
Mulligan, a strong abortion advocate, is concerned about long exposure of fetuses to ultrasound waves? WTF does she care! She'd just as soon chop 'em up anyway.
I got one Senator's email right here:
info@ronstephens.com
These people probably already working under a doctors order and PP knows it so what's the real agenda here?
When asked by State Rep. Randy Hultgren (R-Wheaton) whether or not it would effect crisis pregnancy centers who have recently begun doing ultrasounds on women considering abortion, Mulligan said she wasn't familiar with the practice in those agencies, and deferred a clear response.
They don't women changing their minds from an abortion. The ones that go to the crisis pregnancy centers!!!
That's the agenda!
I guess "Keep your laws off my body!" doesn't apply to this.
EXACTLY!
This TICKS ME OFF!
It's not enough to have abortion legal- but now we have to do all we can to MAKE SURE WE DO AS MANY AS POSSIBLE!
LOL!!
That sounds about right!
witch!
Well I know that but what's the agenda with this law? All I can think of is to maybe scare doctors with liability that babies could be harmed . Can you think of anything else?. The ultra sounds must be working.
no, I can't think of ANYTHING ELSE!
Especially when it is PLANNED PARENTHOOD doing the the lobbying on it...
no, I can't think of ANYTHING ELSE!
Especially when it is PLANNED PARENTHOOD doing the the lobbying on it...
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