Posted by JM Ashby
The conservative abortion fetish marches on today. What would a day be like without yet another anti-abortion bill being approved somewhere inside the continental United States?
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Women seeking an abortion would have to first get an ultrasound under a measure approved on Thursday by the Texas House of Representatives.
The proposal, the first significant bill considered by the House this year, was designated by Republican Governor Rick Perry as an emergency priority. A similar measure has already been approved by the state Senate.
Women would have to get an ultrasound between 24 and 72 hours before an abortion, the bill says. They would view the sonogram, hear an explanation of the image and listen to the heartbeat, if it is audible. [...]
Democrats tried unsuccessfully to add a series of amendments to the bill. One of those said that if the woman decided not to go through with the abortion, the state would have to pay for the college education for the child. Another, which also would have applied to cases in which the woman decided not to have the abortion, would have allowed women to get a court order to require the father of the child to get a vasectomy.
The state of Texas is looking at the very real possibility of firing 100,000 school teachers and administrators, but the first major bill to be considered in the House, an "emergency priority," is an abortion bill.