Indiana Right to Life Director Sue Swayze defends mandatory transvaginal ultrasounds:
“I got pregnant vaginally. Something else could come in my vagina for a medical test that wouldn’t be that intrusive to me. So I find that argument a little ridiculous.”
I'm glad to hear it's open season on Ms. Swayze's vagina, but I've actually heard the opposite even from women who are having wanted pregnancies. One of my family members just found out she was pregnant and did not realize that the first check on the fetus involves a transvaginal ultrasound (she thought it would just be the rub-the-gel-on-the-belly ultrasound standard on TV and movies). She was kind of startled and discomforted by it, again despite being very happy to be pregnant and getting the ultrasound because she wants to have the best pregnancy possible, not because she wants to terminate it.
I'm glad to hear it's open season on Ms. Swayze's vagina, but I've actually heard the opposite even from women who are having wanted pregnancies. One of my family members just found out she was pregnant and did not realize that the first check on the fetus involves a transvaginal ultrasound (she thought it would just be the rub-the-gel-on-the-belly ultrasound standard on TV and movies). She was kind of startled and discomforted by it, again despite being very happy to be pregnant and getting the ultrasound because she wants to have the best pregnancy possible, not because she wants to terminate it.
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