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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUtah's Women Senators Walk Out As Men Pass Abortion Ultrasound Bill
Utah's Women Senators Walk Out As Men Pass Abortion Ultrasound Billhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/utahs-women-senators-walk-out-as-men-pass-abortion-ultrasound-bill/ar-BB112BLb
Six women in Utah's Senate, from both sides of the aisle, walked out on their male peers Tuesday, as they passed a bill requiring pregnant women to sit through an ultrasound before being able to undergo an abortion.
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Six women in Utah's Senate, from both sides of the aisle, walked out on their male peers Tuesday, as they passed a bill requiring pregnant women to sit through an ultrasound before being able to undergo an abortion.
a close up of a computer: An ultrasound machine sits next to an exam table in an examination room at Whole Woman's Health of South Bend on June 19, 2019 in South Bend, Indiana. Men in Utah's Senate passed a bill seeking to force women undergo an ultrasound before getting an abortion.© Scott Olson/Getty An ultrasound machine sits next to an exam table in an examination room at Whole Woman's Health of South Bend on June 19, 2019 in South Bend, Indiana. Men in Utah's Senate passed a bill seeking to force women undergo an ultrasound before getting an abortion.
House Bill 364 was passed entirely by male senators as their six female colleagues, Democrats Luz Escamilla, Jani Iwamoto, Karen Mayne and Kathleen Riebe and Republicans Deirdre Henderson and Ann Millner walked out on the vote.
According to Escamilla, who tweeted about the incident, the decision to walk out of the Senate was not planned.
"Love my sisters in the Senate," Escamilla said, sharing photos of the six women senators embracing each other after walking out. "A spontaneous decision not planned of sisterhood against the invasive nature of HB 364," she said.
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Utah's Women Senators Walk Out As Men Pass Abortion Ultrasound Bill (Original Post)
Odoreida
Mar 2020
OP
We're in a global medical crisis and they're passing frivolous use of med equipment bills...
Wounded Bear
Mar 2020
#6
sakabatou
(42,141 posts)1. These men hate women
Response to Odoreida (Original post)
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pansypoo53219
(20,959 posts)3. medical rape bill.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)4. This
Wounded Bear
(58,606 posts)6. We're in a global medical crisis and they're passing frivolous use of med equipment bills...
just to belittle women.
bucolic_frolic
(43,069 posts)7. The men wouldn't want the transparency reciprocated
keithbvadu2
(36,678 posts)8. Play doctor in the legislature
Play doctor in the legislature
Ford_Prefect
(7,873 posts)9. Does anyone report the voting on the bill?
Did male Democrats in the Utah House and Senate support this bill? We know the GOP party line is to humiliate and dominate women.
The Newsweek article did not report the vote count, nor did it make clear if all of the males in both houses voted in favor or not. There was no mention of any males or Democrats having spoken against the bill, either.