{"id":215053,"date":"2019-12-10T10:40:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T16:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=215053"},"modified":"2019-12-09T12:03:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T18:03:28","slug":"rejected-slovakia-informed-consent-needed-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/rejected-slovakia-informed-consent-needed-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Though rejected in Slovakia, informed consent laws are needed everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On December 5, 2019, in Slovakia, a conservative bill that would have required women seeking abortions to view their own ultrasounds prior to their abortions\u00a0was voted down<\/a> in the name of “women’s rights.”<\/p>\n

Monica Costa Riba from Amnesty International stated, “Today\u2019s vote is a victory for women and for reproductive rights. By rejecting this bill, lawmakers in Slovakia chose to protect women\u2019s privacy and autonomy and reject any further roll back of women\u2019s hard-fought rights.”<\/p>\n

The New York Post reported<\/a> that the goal behind the bill was “to ensure that women are informed about the current stage of their pregnancy” and to encourage “positive impacts on marriage, parenthood and family.” It explains further that the law required women seeking abortion to be informed\u00a0about the “development stage of the embryo or fetus whose development is to be terminated\u201d by using ultrasound images, and that “if technically feasible, the physician must also enable her to listen to the heartbeat of the embryo or fetus.”<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0The abortion industry lies to women. That\u2019s why we need ultrasound laws.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

While forcing<\/em> women to view ultrasounds prior to abortion is questionable, women should\u00a0always be given the option<\/em> of viewing the real-time ultrasound of their preborn child beforehand, and they should at the very least be informed of fetal development at their preborn child’s gestational age. The reason why this seems unreasonable to abortion advocates, however, is likely because it all reveals that abortion isn’t destroying some sort of blob or tumor, but a living human being.<\/p>\n

In fact, just yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal<\/a> to overturn Kentucky’s informed consent ultrasound law, which — in the worlds of a circuit court judge will\u00a0\u201cprovide[] the patient with more knowledge about the effect of an abortion procedure: it shows her what, or whom, she is consenting to terminate. That this information might persuade a woman to change her mind does not render it suspect under the First Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n