Texas's New Sonogram Law Is Going Into Effect Immediately. As In: Right Now.

• "allowing Texas to enforce the will of our state, which values and protects the sanctity of life."  Hmm.......and we lead the nation in state executions, 477 executed since 1976.  Gotta love Texas, a whole other country.

• Here's a thought- and we can all rally around this:  if you are against abortions, DON'T have one.  Legislating morality hasn't worked since the Garden of Eden.   Oh- and if you are going to 'post', have a point.  OK?

• This is what frosts my ass about this whole ordeal.... Regardless of your views on abortion, in the state of Texas we’re laying off teachers, our schools are shit, our roads aren’t any better, we’re staring down a massive deficit…. …..and THIS is what the clowns down in Austin decided to concentrate on in the last legislative session?

• They do not even like birth control pills. They are just plain messed up as far as sex is concerned. That and they can't keep their noses out of others business either.

• If Rick Perry is so concerned about saving unborn babies lives, why doesn't he spend money, time, resources on MAKING BIRTH CONTROL EASILY AVAILABLE FOR EVERYONE! Pass out condoms everywhere! Play episodes of Maury Povitch's "You are NOT the father" for the young and impressionable to see! Make it easy for girls under 18 to go to places like Planned Parenthood to GET BIRTH CONTROL PILLS. It's not fckin rocket science. If you want to cut down on unplanned pregnancies/abortions, then focus on birth control.

• I think this is the only post of yours on this website that I've ever agreed with. Maybe I should check that I'm current on my meds.

• Planned Parenthood should mount a campaign to buy blindfolds and iPods.

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• Please let it be driving !

• Donate to Planned Parenthood of North Texas at http://www.plannedparenthood.org/north-texas/

• A real poverty hating republican should dispense abortions, vasectameies, and tiring up tubes food truck style roaming the city. Free ! Hell no we will give you a $50 gift card to wal Mart each time you come in

• Yea what's more big government than making poor people make more poor people, then feel quilty when they don't make more poor people

• At what point do we lose the distinction between extreme right-wing fascist authoritarianism and extreme left-wing socialist authoritarianism? Right here, apparently.  The far right fringe has curved so far that they're lefties.  The State can do no wrong, and it's all for our own good, no matter who it hurts.

• Between this and the HPV vaccine mandate, I get the feeling this gov isn't too friendly towards women! What next...burkas????

• Bless God for Rick Perry 

• Just take an existing sonogram and share the file. If you have seen one tiny fetus you seen them all. It was nice for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to deliver this verdict at just a critical point in the Republican primary where Perry is barely hanging on. Now  Perry can show those others impersonators who the real Christian conservative is. Ohhhhhh, the hypocrisy. Those anti-govenment, freedom loving Republicans. 

• It always amazes me how the party that constantly tells us that we need LESS government in our lives is the very same party to always push for MORE government in our lives, especially our personal lives. It also amazes me how utterly stupid anybody has to be to buy into the lies of the GOP. And, just so you know, I personally oppose abortion, but I strongly believe that it is a decision best left to a family, their doctor and their personal beliefs. It is not my business what others do with their own bodies.

• If I was still a Republican voter, instead of a thinking conservative, this would have pushed me away from the party.  I don't think I have strayed from a good conservative position as much as the Republicans have run off someplace to the right of Genghis Khan. I still maintain, push abortion out of the picture, and this is a law allowing the state to impose a particular moral, a specific value, into our very consciousness.  It makes no allowance for free religious association (or no religious association at all), it violates the right of the citizens to be secure in and of themselves.  In effect, it establishes state favoritism of a singular, specific religiously held belief, to the detriment of free will and personal determination. The religious right makes a lot of noise about President Obama being socialist or communist, and they may be correct in some of those assumptions.  However, enacting a state law that establishes moral conduct may be the highest degree of communistic 'state as god' mentality since we enacted state mandated agricultural price supports and allowed the farming cooperatives to rape the populace to the tune of billions of dollars per year.

• "The sooner we start providing sonograms" Unless the governor has a frog in is pocket it sounds like the state is going to pony up the funds.

• This just in from the governor himself, via statement dispatched by his office: "The sooner we start providing sonograms to those considering abortions, the more lives we can save. The Fifth Circuit's decision requires abortion providers to immediately comply with the sonogram law, appropriately allowing Texas to enforce the will of our state, which values and protects the sanctity of life."

• Yeah.  Aren't we proud of the Lege and gov for enacting a law requiring mental torture of medical patients?  Not to mention, if the pregnancy is less than 12 weeks, the sonogram probe must be inserted in the patient's vagina.  Yeah, the Leg has required by law an intrusive medical procedure. So, small government, anyone?

• No idea what the cost is, but the patient, or her insurance, if any, pays for it.  No tax $ from any level go to pay for abortions unless pregnancy is due to rape or incest or endangers life of the mother. This is federal law.

• I still don't understand the point of this.

• This is 100% about pandering to religious right.  Consider yourselves pandered to. You can bet that Perry, Abbot and most other R Texan politicians will thump their chests mightily as they proudly talk about this law.  They will strut about now that they make typically young, economically challenged, often minority mothers take what is certainly one of the most difficult decisions of their lives and turn it into a nightmare they will never forget as long as they live.  

• The doctor could be a bit of a prankster and describe Fred Flintstone instead.

• I'm still curious who pays for this and does anyone have any idea of what the cost will be?

• The AG is sure hot to get this law into effect. Let's see, the AG earns praise and monetary grants for his child support collection efforts, and here he is vigorously fighting for a law that could, conceivably, produce more child support cases for his office to pursue (while they absolutely refuse to pursue parents who ignore the other aspects of child custody agreements because there's no money in that, i.e. the "kids need time with both parents so let's write visitation in there" part). It all comes together.

• Next up Prevention of Conception . No that's not right . Prevention of Conception Prevention. Ah Yes that's right .

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