{"id":3369,"date":"2012-01-31T07:52:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T12:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3369"},"modified":"2012-01-31T07:52:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T12:52:17","slug":"may-cause-a-sudden-drop-in-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3369","title":{"rendered":"May cause a sudden drop in blood pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"

More fun with conditional hypocrisy, courtesy of the Virginia Senate<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The bill, <\/span>SB484<\/a>, says pregnant women must be given an opportunity to view the ultrasound image prior to an abortion and requires abortion providers to keep a copy in the patient’s file.<\/p>\n

"I view this as a serious women's health issue," Vogel said on her website. "At a minimum, ultrasound is necessary to determine gestational age and that there is no anomaly that could affect the health of the mother or outcome of the procedure."<\/p>\n

Pro-abortion rights advocates consider the ultrasound provision a tactic to add cost and inconvenience to the process with the goal of getting women to change their minds.<\/p>\n

Sen. Janet Howell, D-Fairfax County, was dismayed enough by the bill's progress that she tried to amend it so men seeking prescriptions for erectile dysfunction medication such as Viagra would be required to undergo a rectal exam and cardiac stress test.<\/strong><\/p>\n

She said that's "only fair, that if we're going to subject women to unnecessary procedures, and we're going to subject doctors to having to do things that they don't think is medically advisory."<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Howell's amendment ought to help people visualize how such a bill would affect their own administration of their privates, were certain facts different. <\/p>\n

The amendment was defeated, but so was the bill. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More fun with conditional hypocrisy, courtesy of the Virginia Senate: The bill, SB484, says pregnant women must be given an opportunity to view the ultrasound image prior to an abortion and requires abortion providers to keep a copy in the patient’s file. "I view this as a serious women's health issue," Vogel said on her website. "At … Continue reading May cause a sudden drop in blood pressure<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1291,721,801],"class_list":["post-3369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tu-quoque","tag-etiam-tu-quoque","tag-subjunctive-tu-quoque","tag-tu-quoque-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3370,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions\/3370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}