Governor Granholm is going to sign a bill to require an abortionist to allow a pregnant woman to view an ultrasound of her unborn child:
"The anti-abortion group Right to Life of Michigan, maintains that the change will ensure that pregnant women have more complete access to accurate information before having an abortion.
"I think she looked at both the substance of the policy, and at the politics, and determined that a veto was not the prudent thing to do," said Ed Rivet, chief lobbyist for Right to Life of Michigan.
The law would require physicians who take ultrasound images before performing an abortion to give his or her patient the opportunity to view an active ultrasound of the fetus, and to offer the patient a still image taken from the ultrasound."
This is important because a significant proportion of women who see their child on an ultrasound don't go through with an abortion. This is one of the reasons that the abortion rate has been going down in recent years. This bill will save lives. This is the kind of bill that state legislatures need to be passing, rather than focusing on Quixotic efforts to ban all abortion.
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This is a huge step. And it's good for us politically. Granholm will lose a bit of her baby killing support on this.
As far as the outright ban deal, I'm still curious as to how that experiment will work out. I wonder if anyone on the left has the guts to take such a law to the US Supreme Court given the fact that there are more conservatives on the bench.
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