comments_image Comments  Why Do Right-Wing Extremists Have the
Power to Force Doctors to Humiliate Women?  Legislators are
using the mandated ultrasound to scare, insult and humiliate
women.  Photo Credit: Shutterstock   Of all the words one could
have guessed that would completely shift the public discourse,
“transvaginal” probably wouldn’t have rated very high before the
month of February. Yet that simple word managed to finally draw
national attention and outrage to an issue pro-choicers have
been trying to highlight for years now -- the anti-choice
enthusiasm for passing laws requiring women seeking abortion to
endure harassment ultrasounds before being allowed to abort
unwanted pregnancies.  Anti-choicers claim the laws are
necessary for “informed consent,” an argument that bafflingly
presumes that women seeking abortions aren’t aware that they’re
pregnant. Pro-choicers correctly point out that the laws are
both about putting obstacles between women and abortion, and
most importantly, forcing unwilling d