If Ultrasound is Rape, Arrest Planned Parenthood Staffers

LifeNews.com ^ | 2/24/2012 | Kristan Hawkins

[blueyon]

Having an ultrasound is now considered rape, according to the latest talking points from the largest abortion chain in the nation, Planned Parenthood, over the controversy about the Virginia ultrasound bill.

If this sounds illogical and absurd, that’s because it is.

In a 2003 study of Planned Parenthood and other independently owned abortion facilities, 99 percent of these clinics admitted that they either “always” or “sometimes” perform an ultrasound in association with a surgical abortion. Further, it was stated that vaginal ultrasounds were “always” performed before the early surgical abortion at 83 percent of these sites, 16 percent “under certain conditions,” and only 1 percent “never” did them.

Additionally, the study revealed that after an abortion was performed, vaginal ultrasounds were also “always” performed at 26 percent of these sites, “under certain conditions” at 66 percent of these sites, and “never” at 8 percent.

Planned Parenthood even admits they do ultrasounds before an abortion: “That’s just the medical standard,” said Adrienne Schreiber, an official at Planned Parenthood’s Washington, D.C., regional office. “To confirm the gestational age of the pregnancy, before any procedure is done, you do an ultrasound.”

[blueyon]

Another GREAT article cutting right to the facts!

[Secret Agent Man]

So, planned murder says trans-vaginal ultrasounds are not intrusional but necessary for abortion, but intrusive if they are for showing a mom her baby before an abortion.

Where would we be without these altruistic, expert people that have no conflicts of interest, telling us what is right and what is wrong?

[Texas Eagle]

I’m not a medical professional or anything but aren’t abotions themselves trans-vaginal or intra-vaginal or whatever this new word is?

[grey_whiskers]

If a mere vaginal ultrasound is rape, what is a full-fledged abortion?

NO cheers, unfortunately.

[Styria]

That's a poor article. "If ultrasound is rape" - I don't know that Planned Parenthood said that. Where are the references?

There are reasons you'd want an ultrasound first. An ectopic pregnancy is dangerous and above a certain size requires surgery rather than medications. Gestational trophoblastic disease/molar pregnancy grows faster than a normal pregnancy and has malignant potential. But neither is something Planned Parenthood would treat.