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Romney and Corbett: "Shared Values" on Forced Ultrasound
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
May 2, 2012 - 1:30pm (Print)
Romney and Corbett both want power, for themselves. And they are willing to demean women to get it.
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Romney Advisor Tom Corbett, Governor of Pennsylvania, Speaks Again on Forced Ultrasounds
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett reprising his "just lay back and take it" moment on forced ultrasounds.
Transvaginal Ultrasound: A Patient's Perspective
The state of Texas currently requires that all women seeking abortions have ultrasounds. But if they are too early along for a regular ultrasound to show anything, they must undergo transvaginal ultrasounds. Raw Story executive editor Megan Carpentier had one to see what it was like. Read her full perspective here.
District Court Permanently Blocks Oklahoma Ultrasound Law, Expect A Supreme Court Battle
by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
March 29, 2012 - 8:15am (Print)
With two conflicting lower court rulings, we are very likely to see our first new challenge to Roe V. Wade approach the Supreme Court.
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Illinois House To Vote on Forced Ultrasounds For Cattle... I Mean Women
by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
March 22, 2012 - 9:52pm (Print)
Oh, hey! Look what made it through the agricultural committee this time!
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Is Civil Disobedience the Right Move for Physicians?
Should physicians engage in civil disobedience to protect their patients from over-reaching state legislatures? It’s a provocative suggestion made in a popular blog earlier this week.
Poll: Virginia Voters Strongly Disagree With Forced Ultrasound Law
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
March 21, 2012 - 9:39am (Print)
A new poll out today from Quinnipiac University reveals that Virginia voters are not happy with the recently signed forced ultrasound law, and their confidence in and approval of both Governor Bob McDonnell and the state legislature has declined.
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Idaho Senate Set to Vote On Forced Ultrasound Bill
by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
March 18, 2012 - 1:11pm (Print)
The Idaho Senate may vote as early as Monday, May 19th on a forced ultrasound bill despite the fact that its original author admitted he had no idea exactly what sort of ultrasound he was mandating, nor how women would pay for them. Opposition is building against it.
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Censoring Doonesbury on Abortion: It's So Sad It's Not Even Funny
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
March 12, 2012 - 1:33pm (Print)
What does it say about the state of our society when so many state legislators seem to make the passage of laws de-humanizing women their main priority, but newspapers are afraid of running comic strips satirizing these laws? Garry Trudeau, the brilliant political cartoonist, has produced a series on forced trans-vaginal sonogram laws in Texas, but papers in a number of the states with similar laws are not running it.
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Ultrasounds? Lawmakers in Pennsylvania Want to Force You to Have One, But They Can't Even Say the Word
by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
March 8, 2012 - 9:32am (Print)
How unpopular are ultrasound bills becoming? Legislators don't even want to say the word anymore.
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