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OK, so I'm not sure if this belongs in Grip of Death's thread, since I can only find news about this bill happening in South Carolina... her thread said North, but...ah... sweatdrop

Anyway, I found this article.
Here it is.

If nothing else, the remarks from some of the reps are interesting.


Huh. Yes, please tell the victim of terrible sexual violence that her Representative in government thinks that God was at work through her rape, and that she should have to totally check out the end result because that's what said representative thinks that God wants. Very comforting.

Another Republican made with much hand-wringing over allowing a rape exception, since:

and he got told:

Yeesh. And yet, without the rape/incest exceptions, this measure was passed 91-23, with two Republicans voting against it, and twenty-three dems in favor. stare

The article goes on to note that the measure will have to be approved by a GOP-controlled Senate, but will likely be amended to excuse the victims of incest and rape from the mandate.

Even almost full term fetuses cannot be identified by non-trained-proffessionals. If your seriously swayed by a bunch of blobs on a screen you probably shouldn't be doing it anyway. It usually means someones forcing you into it.. i always wonder if people who change their minds because some propaganda that got smeared in their face really think about what they are doing. Or are they just going with the majority to make them leave them alone? I used to do that. Then i turned 10. -.-

It's more disgusting that they would be FORCED to see it. Forcing anything on someone who is emotionally unstable is a bad thing. These people should be forced to watch the Hiroshima and Holocaust docomentaries and then vote again. Sick sick disturbing assholes. Mind you i've seen sonograms of my insides and at some parts it looked the same as those old images of Hiroshima and the Holocaust we saw in school.

Like Katsuya said, I can see where the benefit would be to women who aren't sure, but it's not fair if the woman is aborting for health reasons and otherwise would have remained pregnant. That's unnecessary trauma.

I don't like the idea of women being forced to view a sonogram, but like LadyInWhite said, if a bunch of blobs makes you change your mind, you probably shouldn't be doing it anyway.

Does the President or the Congress have to watch horrifying scenes of soldiers dying bloody, gruesome deaths in war, being decapitated, shot through by bullets, tortured in interrogation sessions, etc.etc. before they declare war? Conversely, do they have to look at footage of civilians dying under an oppressive totalitarian government, children being kidnapped and brainwashed as child-soldiers, citizens being raped, etc. when they choose not to involve themselves in another country?

No? Not when they themselves control the living or dying of an enormous number of lives when they make that decision?

Honestly.

rolleyes

That said, I can't honestly think it'd make the slightest bit of difference, except in perhaps the cases of some women who weren't entirely sure if they wanted to get an abortion in the first place. I can't see myself changing my mind at all when I get shown a video/picture of the blob that is my fetus.

I suppose that it could help women who aren't entirely sure if they wanted to get an abortion make their decision- and if they choose not to, good for them. However, for rape victims, people who do want to keep the pregnancy- but are hampered by reality (financial problems, physical difficulties, etc.), it could pose unnecessary trauma, as someone above me has already stated.

Question: How many of the people who voted in favour were men?