One woman talks about the counseling she received at an abortion clinic:
“The day of the abortion, my future husband was a real sport and drove me to the clinic and paid for the procedure. That is what it became known as that day. He left and said he would pick me up later. I stared around the waiting room and saw a lot of young girls, some alone, some with a boyfriend, a husband, a friend, not many with a mother, all of them looking scared. A young woman called me and made me take another urine pregnancy test. She showed me into a “counseling” room. She came back and told me that I was pregnant, took out a plastic model of a uterus and explained how they would remove the tissue lining of the uterus. There was never any mention of a baby, or fetus, just the tissue that lined the uterus and how it would be removed.”
A bill was proposed in Virginia that would’ve mandated the following:
“The bill would require the abortion clinic or hospital to provide a woman with information on the probable age of her fetus and details of the abortion procedure and to offer her information about the pregnancy and other options available. Unless her life is at stake, the woman would then have to wait 24 hours before having the abortion. The information could be given by phone or in person. “
Planned Parenthood oppose this law and lobbied against it, spending a great deal of money to defeat it. According to one pro-choice politician:
“I just think it is patronizing and unfair to women and women’s health.”
Stephen Dinan “24-Hour Abortion Wait Progresses in House” The Washington Times: February 3, 2001: 8
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