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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it's "just a fetus" and not a baby, why are you so up in arms about seeing a picture?

You can't have it both ways: It's too painful and tortuous for a woman to have to look at that but, wait, it's not really a baby, right, so it's really no big deal?

Either abortion is a no big deal medical procedure, it is killing a baby, or it is a fuzzy gray zone. But when you go on and on about how hard it is for women to look at those images, you are undercutting one of the main arguments that helps keep abortion legal.[/quote]

Here's why I'm up in arms about a woman being forced to look at a picture (and it being noted in her file if she refuses to look at it - for whatever purpose later). Insisting on an ultrasound that has no medical value, followed by insisting that a woman look at the picture and listen to the heartbeat if they can find one devalues the woman's choice in the matter. If I decide that I want to get an abortion, that's my decision. I've made my choice. Showing me an ultrasound picture is an attempt to manipulate me while I'm already in a vulnerable emotional state - not because seeing the picture itself is so traumatic but because not a single woman I know who has terminated a pregnancy, for whatever reason, made that choice lightly or easily. The assumption that all my thought processes will go right out the window with an ultrasound photo, that I just need more convincing to see it your way invalidates my freedom of choice. The picture is not the issue. The manipulative tactics are.

I've posted several times on this thread and I never said it was not a big deal. Of course it's a big deal. But all these tactics to "educate" women about their "options" fall on dead ears when the tactics really serve only to disrespect a woman's right to make her own medical decisions. [/quote]

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