Perry’s Anti-Abortion Law Takes Effect This Week, Requiring Women To Get A Sonogram 24 Hours Before An Abortion

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/657988/perry%E2%80%99s_anti-abortion_law_takes_effect_this_week,_requiring_women_to_get_a_sonogram_24_hours_before_an_abortion/

Among those laws is the highly controversial sonogram law Perry signed in May, forcing pregnant women seeking abortions to undergo a medically unnecessary ultrasound at least 24 hours before an abortion and to hear a description of the fetus:

One new law requires a doctor to attempt to show a woman seeking an abortion a sonogram of the fetus, to describe the image and to provide the sound of the fetal heartbeat before the procedure. Federal Judge Sam Sparks is expected to rule before Thursday on a challenge to the law by the Center for Reproductive Rights.

“This law is intrusive, patronizing to women and unconstitutional,” said Julie Rikelman, the center’s lead attorney on the case. She said patients should be given only the information and medical tests appropriate for the circumstances and that a doctor should not have to act as a “government agent.”

**Opinion**

Here is another one of those unnecessary hurdles that they like to provide for the less fortunate. For someone claiming to be less government and conservative, it doesn't take a CEO to determine that this is contrary to their (projected) popular belief. A real small government conservative would look at the long term, rather than the short term. I'm not a financial advisor, however, it's simple to see that a minimal payment/one-time cost easily exceeds lifetime costs and/or expenses.

Texas conservatives initially refused to include exceptions for cases of rape, incest, and fetal abnormality in the bill.