Reply #11: Vaginal ultrasounds are often painful and traumatic. [View All]

[Lyric]

Those probes are cold, hard, and can be painful if you're tense or upset or naturally small inside. The vagina tends to tense up and refuse entry when a woman is nervous, upset, or scared, so forcing this thing inside of her before an abortion (which is obviously an occasion for fear, anxiety, and/or grief) is just heinous. It can HURT, no matter how much lube they put on it. At least in terms of the vaginal sensations felt by an unwilling woman who's being forced by the state to undergo this, those things might as well be rape sticks. It's one thing if you're undergoing this willingly because you're pregnant and the doctor needs to check on the baby's progress. That makes the experience at least a neutral one, if not a positive one. But THIS?

Now that I think of it, I don't see anything mentioned about an exception for victims of rape--so what, they're going to insist that raped girls undergo forced penetration AGAIN? What if the girl is 12 years old? What if she has vaginal damage from the rape that hasn't completely healed yet? What if she's suffering PTSD in the aftermath of the rape, and this sends her spiraling into a complete mental breakdown? What kind of evil bastards THINK of this shit?

I have a great idea for a new Texas law. Mandatory, un-sedated colonoscopies for all new legislators before they're allowed to run for office. They have to be awake and watching the screen, and THEY have to pay for it. After all--the state has a vested interest in ensuring that its lawmakers aren't going to keel over from colon cancer within a year of being elected.

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