Posted on 02/22/2012 7:22:40 PM PST by blueyon
Abortion advocates in Virginia have come under heavy criticism for equating the ultrasound legislation there would allow women to see before an abortion to rape. Yet, while abortion backers say having an ultrasound is like getting raped, a 2003 study shows 99% of Planned Parenthood abortion facilities do them beforehand.
Published in the medical journal Contraception in 2003, researchers with the pro-abortion group IPAS, the University of North Carolina, a consortium of Planned Parenthood clinics and the National Abortion Federation surveyed staff at 113 Planned Parenthood affiliates and independent abortion businesses between February and April 2000.
The study specifically concerned the use of the dangerous abortion drug RU 486 (mifepristone) and the survey indicated the drug could be given to women at Planned Parenthood centers and abortion clinics because of vaginal ultrasounds.
Surveying 72 of the abortion businesses that sold the abortion pill to women, the researchers found abortion facilities frequently use vaginal ultrasounds before an abortion to determine the gestational age of the baby or afterwards to determine if the abortion was complete. In fact 99 percent of the abortion facilities surveyed always or sometimes performed an ultrasound in association with the surgical abortion — while just one percent did not.
“Vaginal ultrasound was always performed before the early surgical abortion at 59 (83%) sites, under certain conditions at 11 (16%) sites, and never at one (1%) site,” the study noted. “Vaginal ultrasound was always performed after early surgical abortion at 18 (26%) sites, under certain conditions at 46 (66%) sites, and never at 6 (8%) sites.”
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CORRECTION THE PUBLISH DATE IS 2/22/2012
They already modified the bill to remove the requirement for a specific type of ultrasound.
The ultrasound, required to prove age of the fetus, is still required, but they can do an external ultrasound as medically determined.
So this is really not an issue.
what a crap headline. 71 out of 113 is 99% ?
how can they count the after ultra-sound ?
so, if 1 clinic did 1 ultra-sound in it’s entire history, that would be 100 %
doh!.mis-read it. they surveyed 72...which includes “under certain conditions”
“They already modified the bill to remove the requirement for a specific type of ultrasound.”
Just so you know the bill said “imagining ultrasound” and had always left it open to what type (Doctors choice) needed to be done.
For this reason, I have recommended to the General Assembly a series of amendments to this bill. I am requesting that the General Assembly amend this bill to explicitly state that no woman in Virginia will have to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound involuntarily. I am asking the General Assembly to state in this legislation that only a transabdominal, or external, ultrasound will be required to satisfy the requirements to determine gestational age. Should a doctor determine that another form of ultrasound may be necessary to provide the necessary images and information that will be an issue for the doctor and the patient. The government will have no role in that medical decision.
That's a long time ago, considering how much abortion has grown and has now become a birth control method.
PP usually won’t show the ultrasound image to the mother, though. It’s just to cover their own legal rear ends, that they know yes there’s somebody (or somebodies) in there before they go in to kill him/her/them.
Abortions are down from 9 years ago.
And 00.00% do mammograms.
So much for the complete lies spewing forth from the democrat party 3 weeks ago.
Any woman who goes to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer evaluationa and treatment is truly naive or just insane.
Even more reason to question the use of a 9 year old survey.
Surely there is more current data that the author could have used.
My question is, why use this one?
And 00.00% do mammograms.
So much for the complete lies spewing forth from the democrat party 3 weeks ago.
Any woman who goes to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer evaluation and treatment is truly naive or just insane.
So . . . 99% of them sometimes don't, right?
There are so many statistical errors her that it's just plain ridiculous!
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