It's true: rape of women—pregant ones, to be exact—is now mandatory in Texas. A panel of federal appellate judges decreed as much this week. Iris Vander Pluym explains it all over at her Perry Street Palace blog:
No doubt much fallout will be seen in the days, weeks, months and years ahead about Texas’s mandatory ultrasound law, which requires doctors to perform invasive and completely unnecessary sonograms on women seeking abortions and then describe what they see, whether doctors or patients desire any of this or not. Immediately after the law was enacted in the spring, opponents sought and obtained on Constitutional grounds an injunction preventing the statute from going into effect. Yesterday, that injunction was overturned on appeal, which means the law may now take effect as soon as Thursday.
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