Healthcare

No Transvaginal Ultrasound in Alabama

Republicans in Alabama have backed off their rape bill:

In a Virginia-like turn around, the sponsor of a bill in the Alabama legislature mandating a physician “to perform an ultrasound, provide verbal explanation of the ultrasound, and display the images to the pregnant woman before performing an abortion” says he will water down his measure to give women more say over the procedure. SB12 will no longer require “a woman seeking an abortion to first undergo an ultrasound in which a doctor or technician inserted an ultrasound transducer, or wand, inside her,” State Sen. Clay Scofield (R) explained in a statement Monday, allowing the woman to determine which “method of ultrasound that she would be more comfortable with.”

Bear in mind, these bills still suck. While not as intrusive, they're still trying to tell women what they can and can't do with their bodies. They're still stripping women of basic human rights.