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The bill requires these women to pay for the ultrasound, which could be a few hundred dollars and is just an additional barrier placed in the paths of those who feel, for whatever personal reason, they are unable to have a child at this time.
All this in order to make a hard decision even more punitive. When protection of human life is less concerned with the living and is preoccupied with the lesser-developed existence, then we certainly should re-prioritize. The protection of the embryo and the developing fetus appears to be on a higher agenda for the conservatives in the Republican Party. The philosophy within the party stresses individual responsibility. Social Security, Medicare and other reforms that try to protect the weakest in our society are programs that the Republicans feel take away from individual responsibility.............
Legislature favoring unborn over the born, again
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History will be made Wednesday. Approximately 50 of the most prominent national health-care, religious and legal associations and organizations, as well as countless others, will participate in the inaugural National Health Care Decisions Day. The goal of this nationwide initiative is to ensure that American adults have both the information and the opportunity to communicate and document their future health-care decisions.
While making health-care decisions is often difficult in the best of circumstances, making decisions for others is even more complicated. As Terri Schiavo’s situation vividly revealed, having an advance directive can be valuable for all adults, regardless of current age or health status. Yet, fewer than 25 percent of all Americans have one. For an action that can be done without a lawyer, for free, and relatively easily, this figure is astonishingly low............
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