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Comatose Sphagetti

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3. Rachel did a segment about a new bill from my home state of Indiana...

Reply to cali (Original post)

Fri Feb 22, 2013, 03:02 PM

Feb 2013

"IN Senate committee approves abortion measures"

From the new bill -

"...women receiving abortion-inducing drugs at Indiana abortion clinics would be required to receive an ultrasound before and after dispensing RU-486."

Senator Vaneta Becker (R-Evansville) says "the bill places greater requirements on mostly low-income women."

And she notes the legislative proponents of the bill are men -

“I don’t think they fully understand because I don’t think they’ve ever had a vaginal ultrasound. And so maybe we should see if we can work on that as well.”

Said Indiana Right to Life legislative director, Sue Swayze -

“I got pregnant vaginally. Something else could come in my vagina for a medical test that wouldn’t be that intrusive to me. So I find that argument a little ridiculous.”

http://wbaa.org/post/senate-committee-approve...

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On Republicans and transvaginal probes [View all] cali Feb 2013 OP

Right on! Rider3 Feb 2013 #1

Rethugs have created a 21st century Salem Witch Trial kairos12 Feb 2013 #2

Rachel did a segment about a new bill from my home state of Indiana... Comatose Sphagetti Feb 2013 #3

I really dislike living in Indiana, sigh............. firenewt Feb 2013 #10

"I got pregnant vaginally"... bobclark86 Feb 2013 #19

as an aside, snooper2 Feb 2013 #4

if they thought they could waterboard the women and get away with it Johonny Feb 2013 #5

You know all those "jokes" about leftynyc Feb 2013 #12

By coming out publicly and shamelessly against this, Dems could secure elections forever loudsue Feb 2013 #6

Just whereare the prominent voices in Congress? cali Feb 2013 #7

While my instinct is to leftynyc Feb 2013 #16

yeah, I had the same impulse, but realized that halfway through cali Feb 2013 #17

I'd settle for a press conference leftynyc Feb 2013 #18

And their stances in 2012 caused them to Hara Kiri themselves Taverner Feb 2013 #8

I wish that a woman seeking an abortion and required SheilaT Feb 2013 #9

I suspect that women will be forced to sign consent for the cali Feb 2013 #13

Certainly would/should timdog44 Feb 2013 #22

I'd say, sign it explicitly SheilaT Feb 2013 #23

Amen to a huge backlash leftynyc Feb 2013 #11

Every male Republican state legislator who votes for MineralMan Feb 2013 #14

I think they all have been given shares in the manufacturer of the ultrasounds. Not really, but I firenewt Feb 2013 #15

+1,000. Republicans Raping Uppity Women They Don't Know or Care About... freshwest Feb 2013 #20

Lets call it what it is- State sanctioned rape Dollface Feb 2013 #21

and remember, the GOP has no interest in newborns Skittles Feb 2013 #24

it has dawned on me that the Federal Government could do something like erinlough Feb 2013 #25

it's rape HiPointDem Feb 2013 #26