You know, trying to fend off attacks on women’s reproductive rights sometimes feels like a game of Whac-A-Mole. You wallop that first little bugger on the head, and then another pops up — and another and another, faster and faster. Pretty soon, you’re contemplating abandoning the provided mallet and just going at ’em double-time with your bare fists. (What can I say, I play to win, folks.)
A perfect example of this dynamic are bills forcing pre-abortion ultrasounds on women. Last year, we persistently wrote about a proposed South Carolina bill that would, in part, require a woman to “review” her ultrasound image before having an abortion — right on up until the ultrasound provision was dropped from the measure. Phew! Only, now a similar bill — despicably called the “Freedom of Conscience Act” – has popped up in Oklahoma and is poised to go into effect Nov. 1.
Luckily, the Center for Reproductive Rights has brandished the largest of mallets in this game: a lawsuit. It’s the topic of this week’s clip for Current TV:
