The Oklahoma Senate approved several bills Monday that opponents say would make it more difficult or uncomfortable for women to get abortions, including one that would require women seeking the procedures early in their pregnancies to undergo an invasive form of ultrasound.... One of the laws headed to the governor would require doctors to use a vaginal probe in cases where it would provide a clearer picture of the fetus than a regular ultrasound. Doctors have said this is usually the case early in pregnancies, when most abortions are done."You're going to force someone to undergo an invasive medical procedure," objected state Sen. Andrew Rice, D-Oklahoma City, who voted against the bill. "You have to invasively put an instrument inside the woman. This could be your 15-year-old daughter who was raped."
Anti-choice activists spent most of the last decade railing against late-term abortions. No one could've predicted that they would have a problem with early-term abortions too.
What most anti-choice activists have a problem with—almost all of them motivated by our sex-hating, woman-hating religious "traditions"—is sexually active women, period, whether they're using birth control or not, whether some seek to terminate their pregnancies early or late. They want to punish sexually active women. They want to deny women access to the life-saving HPV vaccine, they want to deny women access to birth control, they want to deny women access to abortion services. And when they can't outright deny women access to abortion—and for now they can't—they will do all they can to make sure obtaining an abortion is a humiliating and traumatizing ordeal.
Because they hate women.
