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Originally Posted by Nat
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I do see this as state sanctioned, or perhaps more accurately state mandated rape. However, what concerns me most is that beyond transvaginal ultrasounds there is a plethora of laws and bills being passed and proposed whose sole purpose is to weaken and ultimately eradicate the reproductive rights of women.
To narrowly focus on this one bill is, to me, short sighted when the Supreme Court’s decision regarding Roe vs. Wade pretty much makes all the bills the various states have been passing regarding abortion unlawful.
The Supreme Court decision is very clear “FOR THE STAGE PRIOR TO APPROXIMATELY THE END OF THE FIRST TRIMESTER, THE ABORTION DECISION AND ITS EFFECTUATION MUST BE LEFT TO THE MEDICAL JUDGMENT OF THE PREGNANT WOMAN'S ATTENDING PHYSICIAN.” The state has no right to interfere in this at all, in any way, with the exception of making sure the physician is licensed in the particular state where the abortion is to take place. The decision of the woman's physician as to what is necessary is final.
Not until the second trimester is the state allowed to promote its interest but even then it is only in regards to the health of the mother. It is not until the third trimester that the state can promote its interest in the potentiality of human life. It seems to me these states who have passed laws placing restrictions on abortion in the first trimester are not operating within federal law. So I wonder why is this not the approach being taken?