By Becci Robbins
Communications Director, SC Progressive Network
SC legislators meet Jan. 28 to discuss a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound, be given “certain written materials” and wait 24 hours before obtaining an abortion, a move opponents say poses a prohibitive burden for many poor and working women.
What’s wrong with this picture? I’ll tell you: these gents are debating what goes on in my uterus. Some of them have been doing this for years. Hard to believe, but they somehow feel entitled to making decisions about the most intimate details of my health and welfare. As a grown woman, I find their presumption insulting.
Seriously. Imagine a group of women discussing how long men should wait before being allowed to have a vasectomy, or whether they should be given Viagra, and under what circumstances. Now stop laughing and imagine that these women had the power to make these choices for men.
Fat chance.