Nerdgrrrlnerd!

Transvaginal Ultrasounds ARE ALREADY HAPPENING

keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:

I keep wanting to scream, “TRANSVAGINAL ULTRASOUNDS ARE ALREADY HAPPENING RIGHT NOW TODAY IN TEXAS!!!!”

Texas has THREE times as many people as Virginia AND they already have mandatory transvaginal ultrasounds before abortions (I also have no hard data but I’m going to guess that Texas probably also has a much larger poor population and a higher percentage of minorities, both groups which have so many barriers to accessing abortion as it is).

I’m glad people are mad about Virginia. I’m glad Amy Poehler is talking about it on SNL. I’m glad that people whom I’ve never seen speak up about this issue are now because of what is POSSIBLY going to happen in Virginia. I’m pleased with these developments.

But please, let’s STOP talking about mandatory transvaginal ultrasounds like they MAY happen. THEY ARE HAPPENING.

Forced penetration, by a doctor or anyone else, is unacceptable.

And don’t give me that “well, they were penetrated by a PENIS, so they shouldn’t mind some doctor sticking a foreign object into their vagina, too!” bullshit, because we all know that’s just a shitty argument. You mean to imply that people can’t make choices depending on the situation? That an action is just the same, no matter what the context? Gee whiz, I might as well go and take money from everyone who has ever given anyone a gift of cash! (BIG note: this does not mean, however, that I’m making an equivalence between theft and rape, theft and violence against a person’s body. They are certainly not equivalent).

Hoo boy. Here I go, goin’ off into ragey land. The blood, it is boiling.

(via ladyatheist)