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Odoreida

(1,549 posts)
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 05:46 AM Mar 2020

Utah's Women Senators Walk Out As Men Pass Abortion Ultrasound Bill

Utah's Women Senators Walk Out As Men Pass Abortion Ultrasound Bill
https://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
These men hate women sakabatou Mar 2020 #1
Spam deleted by MIR Team rozeisem Mar 2020 #2
medical rape bill. pansypoo53219 Mar 2020 #3
This Pacifist Patriot Mar 2020 #4
+1 Odoreida Mar 2020 #5
We're in a global medical crisis and they're passing frivolous use of med equipment bills... Wounded Bear Mar 2020 #6
The men wouldn't want the transparency reciprocated bucolic_frolic Mar 2020 #7
Play doctor in the legislature keithbvadu2 Mar 2020 #8
Does anyone report the voting on the bill? Ford_Prefect Mar 2020 #9

Response to Odoreida (Original post)

Wounded Bear

(58,606 posts)
6. We're in a global medical crisis and they're passing frivolous use of med equipment bills...
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 07:42 AM
Mar 2020

just to belittle women.

Ford_Prefect

(7,873 posts)
9. Does anyone report the voting on the bill?
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 09:05 AM
Mar 2020

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.

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