An Oklahoma County District Judge has blocked enforcement of a new state law that would require abortion clinics to provide each woman with an explained ultrasound image of her unborn child.
Each description would include fetal dimensions, age and whether a heartbeat, limbs and organs are present. Abortion supporters fought the law as “emotionally abusive.” The NY Center for Reproductive Rights challenged the law’s constitutionality using various arguments:
- that women might be forced to hear irrelevant medical info;
- that women are capable of caring for themselves;
- that the law violates doctor’s free speech rights.
But consider how ridiculous such complaints are in any other medical context– like cancer or even a “wanted” pregnancy with complications. Physicians outside the abortion arena do not withhold test results and do not avoid explaining the problems — no matter how uncomfortable or distraught the patient is when hearing the medical truth — because denying information will expose physicians to being sued.
However, abortionists know that aborted women will not seek justice in the courts for being denied information, and are thus willing to misinform women to secure the sale. That is why states are increasingly enacting informed consent requirements that include ultrasound provisions.
On its face, the Oklahoma law is “stronger” than the Kansas 2009 law requiring that clinics using ultrasounds during abortion offer women the choice to see, or refuse to see, the imaging. In addition, because Kansas’ Governor, Attorney General, state medical board and state Supreme Court are hostile to enforcement of abortion regulation, it is unknown if Kansas abortion laws are being subverted.
Sad. The most ruthless murderers a trial and years of appeals, but abortionists don’t want to show a woman what her innocent baby looks like in the womb before she gives consent to abort it. To withhold that information is to withhold from a woman something she has the right and the need to know, because eventually (when its too late) she will know.
If she ever has children after that, she’ll see an ultrasound. She’ll realize what she lost. It’s only right to let her see what’s going on before an abortion and before it’s too late.
But that is the dilemma for the abortionist. If he shows her that its a person and not “just tissue”, the woman may decide not to abort her baby. The abortionist will lose money, and that’s what he’s there for. Not to help women, but to exploit them and their babies, and get lots of money from what is usually a quick and easy procedure.