From pro-choice author Roxane Gay:
“In the race to see who can punish women the most for daring to make these choices, Texas has outdone itself, going so far as to require women to receive multiple sonograms, to be told about all the services available to encourage them to be pregnant, and most diabolically, to listen to the doctor narrate the sonogram.
This legislation designed to control reproductive freedom is so craven as to make you question humanity. It is repulsive.”
Laws requiring women to get sonograms in fact make abortion safer for women because they are the most accurate way to date pregnancies (determining which abortion instruments can be used safely) and detect tubal/ectopic pregnancies (which can be fatal if not detected and allowed to rupture) before an abortion, and the most accurate way to find retained bits of tissue that can cause an infection after an abortion
And being forced to learn about the unborn baby on a sonogram makes Gay “question humanity”, is “craven”, and “repulsive” but the abortion depicted below is fine? Which is more repulsive- learning facts about fetal development of doing this to a preborn baby?
Doing this to a baby at this age is legal in most states thanks to the efforts of people like Gay. And to be fair, in case I’m accused of only showing rare late term abortions, here is an abortion at 8 weeks, a time when most abortions are performed
More from Gay:
“Waiting periods, counseling, ultrasounds, transvaginal ultrasounds, sonogram storytelling: all of these legislative moves are invasive, insulting, and condescending because they are deeply misguided attempts to pressure women into changing their minds, to pressure women into not terminating their pregnancies, as if women are so easily swayed that such petty and cruel stall tactics will work. These politicians do not understand that once a woman has made up her mind about terminating the pregnancy, very little will sway her. It is not a decision taken lightly, and if a woman does the decision lately, that is her right.”
Roxane Gay “The Alienable Rights of Women” in Kim Wyatt, Sari Botton Get Out Of My Crotch: 21 Writers Respond to America’s War on Women’s Rights and Reproductive Health (South Lake Tahoe, California: Cherry Bomb Books, 2012) Kindle edition
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