There is a new piece of legislation that is working its was through the Texas system that will undoubtedly cause a very large upset across the state. The new legislation is trying to force all doctors to perform a sonogram on any woman seeking an abortion. The set method uses pre-abortion sonograms as a routine, but not medically necessary, procedure. Once this new legislation makes it though all doctors will have to give a sonogram with detailed description of the fetus. During the whole process the mother will have to hear the heartbeat of the fetus. This seems like a simple step added but it has large implications.
Legislation like this that forces doctors to perform procedures on patients hurts the patient doctor relationship. Doctors are not allowed to perform anything on a patient without their consent bringing the argument that the woman then doesn't need to agree to an abortion. This argument though is imposing that a non medically necessary procedure should hold back a person's choice. If any doctors refuse they could lose their practice strong arming them to throw aside their ethics. Having doctors say and do things against their will ruins the oath they take to do things that are in the best interest of the patient.
A minor part of the legislation is the state can make random unannounced visits to make sure clinics are following orders. If state officials start barging in unannounced the doctor patient confidentiality is removed. This piece of legislature holds much more weight than is noticed and should be stopped. Dictating to doctors what to do and say hinders a doctor from giving the best treatment possible.
I am glad to see that some of our states younger voters are not being fully influenced by the opinions of others and can take a stand against something. Regularly peoples religious beliefs shape how our government works. Mr.Whittington lays out a well reasoned and respectable argument for why the sonogram bill is not a good idea. Of course the objections to his ideas are not based on factual arguments but motivated by faith. I found that Mr. Whittington was objective in his argument and right to leave out any religious part from the view point.
ReplyDeleteOne thing that I would like to see covered is left out. How come when someone talks about God and it is a sin to have an abortion they assume that everyone that gets an abortion believes in their god or even a god. If you find in your religion that abortion is a sin than you are welcome to not have an abortion, just keep your personal relationship with God out of our public relationship with politics