Lanyap
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Wow
http://timesdaily.com/stories/Ultrasounds-before-abortions,187883
Apparently he has now changed his mind and is amending the bill.
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2012/02/senator_plans_rewrite_of_ultra.html
The bill from Clay Scofield, R-Guntersville, passed out of committee with a vote of 4-to-1 last week. Sen. Linda Coleman, D-Birmingham, voted against it.
The bill calls for the ultrasounds to be done either vaginally or with an abdominal scan, whichever would display the embryo or fetus more clearly. The doctor also would be required to describe the images to the woman.
Scofield said he hopes that, if signed into law, his bill will stop some abortions. Though the bill states a woman can look away from the ultrasound image, Scofield wants her to see it.
So she sees that this is not just a clump of cells as she is told, he said. She will see the shape of the infant. And hopefully, she will choose to keep the child.
The procedure would not be required in the case of a woman seeking an abortion to save her own life. But the bill doesnt allow victims of sexual assault to opt out of the ultrasound.
Physicians who dont perform the required ultrasound could be convicted of a Class C felony, which is punishable with between two and 20 years in prison. The bill also says the doctor could be sued by the unborn childs father or grandparents.
http://timesdaily.com/stories/Ultrasounds-before-abortions,187883
Apparently he has now changed his mind and is amending the bill.
Scofield in an interview said that was not his intent, and that he planned to rewrite the bill so that the woman could decide whether to have an abdominal or vaginal transducer, or wand, used on her.
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2012/02/senator_plans_rewrite_of_ultra.html