Every woman in the Utah Senate walked out in protest of a mandatory ultrasound bill
“There is no other health-related scenario in which the government dictates medical interventions,”
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Utah’s six female senators — Republican and Democratic — left the chamber in protest Tuesday, refusing to vote on a bill that requires women to undergo an ultrasound and be presented with video and audio of their developing fetus before terminating a pregnancy.
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Spanish Fork Republican Sen. Deidre Henderson successfully amended the bill to prohibit the use of transvaginal ultrasounds under the bill, a more invasive procedure than transabdominal ultrasounds. But while the bill went too far before the amendment, she said, the amendment resulted in the bill going “a little less too far.”
I've never had a transvaginal ultrasound, but knowing what the probe looks like and where it goes would feel awfully like a sexual assault.
(have you seen those probes??? They're friggin' huge!)
I have and if it was involuntary I would feel the same way.
Just another attempt to impose unnecessary procedures on women in an attempt to coerce them. Such tactics are unethical.