Sunday, February 8, 2009

12 States Consider Ultrasound Abortion Bills

Most of the bills would require an ultrasound be available, and some require that the ultrasound be performed, and "the images displayed in a manner that the pregnant woman may view them". Most women have abortions before 12 weeks, and it's nearly impossible to make heads or tails of ultrasound images that early. People are imagining the ultrasounds from tv and movies where it's like a video camera in the womb, but the reality is that unless you know what to look for, those early ultrasound images could all fall under the category Attack of the Sand Fleas.

I won't go into my own personal views on abortion, or if women should be required to look at ultrasound images of the uterine contents they wish to terminate.
My question is:
"What about blind women who are wanting abortions?"
Are they exempt from these laws? If so, why? Can one make an abortion law that only affects sighted women? Only sighted women are required to feel guilty before terminating a pregnancy?

If not, then how, exactly, do these practitioners uphold the law and "
display the images in a manner that the pregnant woman may view them"?
Would the doctors use DVS?
Would abortion clinics and private practitioners in these states be required to subscribe to some sort of live DVS streaming technology that the ultrasound images would be uploaded onto?
And have you ever heard some of this DVS? The following is the opening credit sequence of the kids tv show Arthur:
Arthur is an 8-year-old aardvark. He wears round glasses with thick frames over his big eyes. He has two round ears on top of his oval-shaped head. He wears red sneakers and blue jeans, with a yellow sweater over a white shirt.

How the heck would a blind kid know what red sneakers, blue jeans, yellow sweaters, and white shirts look like? How would all this useless descriptive narration during a tv show help any blind person know what is going on during the program?

59% of abortions in the US are performed before 8 wks.
Below is a picture of a 7 wk ultrasound.
What kind of descriptive narration would go with this?



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