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April 18, 2005

This is just weird ...

Out of Illinois

SPRINGFIELD -- Pro-abortion forces won a victory in the Illinois House Wednesday as State Rep. Rosemary Mulligan (R-Park Ridge) successfully passed HB 2492 which would make it a criminal offense for an ultrasound to be administered without a doctor's order.

Mulligan said that Planned Parenthood and the Illinois State Medical Society encouraged her to sponsor the legislation because there was a concern about long exposure of fetuses to ultrasound waves.

Now, excuse me if having PP, who earns a lions' share of the non-profit profit being an abortion provider, sponsoring this bill raises just a few red flags with me. Is this really about protecting unborn babies? Eric Zorn of the Chicago Tribune has an article that starts out with a good and pointed analysis of the two sides, then gets sidetracked in his own biases. He lays out three reasons for ultrasounds: Diagnosis, Entertainment and Propaganda and then only covers what he deems "propaganda" coming exclusively from the pro-life side of the argument
Since 2002, anti-abortion-rights activists have been raising money to buy ultrasound equipment for hundreds of "pregnancy resource centers" out of a conviction, buttressed by statistics they have collected, that if you show a woman who is considering an abortion an ultrasound image of her fetus, it increases the chances that she'll decide not to have the abortion.
Geez, Eric, and maintaining to women/girls who come in for abortions that it isn't really a baby but not more than a mass of tissue like a cyst or ingrown toenail is not propaganda?

:::sigh:::

I best put my disclaimer in yet again. I'm a reluctant pro-choicer. I think that within the first trimester women need to be legally free to choose abortion. But I don't pretend that the fetus is anything other than a nascent human life. While convenience abortions (90% or more of abortions) are legal it doesn't make 'em moral.

PP doesn't want pregant women contemplating abortion to have full knowledge of what they are contemplating because the reality of what they are doing makes some say "no."

Sad. So very sad.

Posted by Darleen at April 18, 2005 06:53 PM

Comments

Hey dumbass, of course Zorn "got sidetracked on his own biases." He's a columnist, not a reporter. That's his job.

Posted by: joe at April 24, 2005 09:08 AM

Geez, Joe, did I say anywhere that Zorn was a reporter?

Y'know, even columnists can acknowledge both sides of an argument while giving their opinion. The "propoganda" exists on both sides, sweetcheeks.

Posted by: Darleen at April 24, 2005 10:17 AM