Say-No-Grams

According to the State Health Services “about 75,000 abortions were performed in Texas in 2010, the latest year for which statistics are available.” There are various reasons for why a woman chooses to have an abortion such as no money to raise a child, having been a rape victim or not wanting to be a single parent.

NBCNews published an article on February 2^nd, 2012 that Texas has begun to enforce a strict anti-abortion sonogram law. This means that the doctor performing the abortion has to conduct a sonogram beforehand showing the woman images of the fetus and making her listen to the heartbeat. By employing this law the state hopes that more women will change their mind about aborting the baby and keeping it instead. 

Is this law really going to affect a woman’s decision overall? Let’s think about it for a second. There is no doubt that the woman walking into an abortion clinic already made up her mind as to whether she should keep the baby or get rid of it. She should be the only one to decide what is best for her and her life. If she feels that an abortion is the right thing for her, then she should do it and not even the sonogram law should try to change her mind.

Rochelle Tafolla, spokesperson for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast said “emotions range from confusion to anger to being quite emotionally upset by it. Having to hear the position described of fetal development is not something they are wanting to endure.”  Now the question is, why do you have to put pregnant women through more than they already have to go through? Whatever the reason for abortion is, it is a good enough reason for the woman to do it. Let’s get real! What’s worse: a woman getting an abortion because she is not apt to raise that child for whatever reason OR the woman being “talked” into having the child through a sonogram, then neglecting and resenting it all her life. Who knows that child could turn into a mass murderer one day as a consequence of growing up in a broken home. Do we really want that?
The legislature needs to just realize that sonograms  are redundant here, takes up a lot of doctors’ time that they could be using to help people instead and costs the government a lot of money.  Why don’t we take those funds somewhere else and invest in the public health care system for example? What do you say, Texas?