{"id":3093,"date":"2013-02-07T12:22:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T17:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2013-02-07T12:22:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T17:22:02","slug":"michigan-gop-would-force-women-to-undergo-invasive-ultrasounds-before-getting-an-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/02\/michigan-gop-would-force-women-to-undergo-invasive-ultrasounds-before-getting-an-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan GOP Would Force Women To Undergo Invasive Ultrasounds Before Getting An Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/02\/michigan-gop-would-force-women-to-undergo-invasive-ultrasounds-before-getting-an-abortion\/michigancities\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3094\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3094\" alt=\"MichiganCities\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MichiganCities-278x300.png\" width=\"222\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MichiganCities-278x300.png 278w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MichiganCities-139x150.png 139w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MichiganCities-400x431.png 400w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MichiganCities.png 556w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michigan Republicans introduced a mandatory ultrasound bill this week with a carefully-worded clause that threatens to stir up controversy that first erupted during the height of last year\u2019s \u201cWar on Women.\u201d By stipulating that the ultrasounds must use the \u201cmost technologically advanced equipment on site,\u201d Michigan lawmakers would require women seeking abortions to undergo an invasive transvaginal probe.<\/p>\n<p>Transvaginal ultrasound bills, which require doctors to insert a wand into a woman\u2019s vagina before proceeding with an abortion procedure, were introduced last year in Virginia and Alabama. Widespread public outcry \u2014 including considerable derision from the national media \u2014 forced GOP lawmakers to back away from the extreme legislation, but Talking Points Memo reports that Michigan lawmakers are now ready to revive the fight:<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/health\/2013\/02\/06\/1552881\/michigan-transvaginal-ultrasound\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michigan GOP Would Force Women To Undergo Invasive Ultrasounds Before Getting An Abortion | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Michigan Republicans introduced a mandatory ultrasound bill this week with a carefully-worded clause that threatens to stir up controversy that first erupted during the height of last year\u2019s \u201cWar on Women.\u201d By stipulating that the ultrasounds must use the \u201cmost technologically advanced equipment on site,\u201d Michigan lawmakers would require women seeking abortions to undergo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17,22,7],"tags":[835,1643],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3096,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions\/3096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}