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I am pro life and always have been - that is not the issue.

The Hell it ain't.

This law begins a slippery slope to take away your liberty relating to your medical decisions.

Bullsh*t. The law in question mandates that COMPLETE diagnostic information be provided to the patient prior to the ACTUAL medical procedure. A sonogram is non-invasive, and in the context of this law it very likely may save lives, i.e., the lives of the unborn that you claim to be in support of. Give your head a shake about this. The Fifth Circuit smackdown of that injunction was a very good thing, and you should be applauding it if your concern about the unborn is anything more than lip service.

Marcella says: This law begins a slippery slope to take away your liberty relating to your medical decisions.

The contrary is true. This law ENDS a slippery slope to take away your liberty relating to your medical decisions by way of a fully INFORMED decision regarding an unreversible and major step which can now be made in a fully informed context. A decision based on partial information is not an empowered position.

The law in question mandates that COMPLETE diagnostic information be provided to the patient prior to the ACTUAL medical procedure. A sonogram is non-invasive, and in the context of this law it very likely may save lives, i.e., the lives of the unborn that you claim to be in support of.

For years there hasn't been an abortion in Texas without a sonogram. The abortionists order them to document the stage of pregnancy, so they can be paid more for later abortions. What the law does is require the physician let the woman seeking the abortion to see the sonogram at least 24 hours before the procedure is to be performed. This is what any other physician would do when consulted about a produre or operation. It means abortionists actually have to meet with their patients before the procedure and tell them what they will be doing. They can't just anonymously enter the room, perform the procedure, and leave without ever meeting the patient. I can see why abortionists don't like it. They can't just have an assembly line of patients to perform abortions on whose only interaction is in an operating room.