Berney writes: "Walker thinks they're so lovely and cool that he signed a bill forcing women to get one before obtaining an abortion."
Governor Scott Walker. (photo: Michael Zamora/The Register)
02 June 15
isconsin Governor Scott Walker has deeply, deeply weird ideas about what’s cool. From RawStory:
“The media tried to make that sound like that was a crazy idea,” Walker said. “Most people I talked to, whether they’re pro-life or not, I find people all the time that pull out their iPhone and show me a picture of their grandkids’ ultrasound and how excited they are, so that’s a lovely thing. I think about my sons are 19 and 20, (and) we still have their first ultrasounds. It’s just a cool thing out there.”
That “lovely” and “cool thing” is ultrasound scans. Walker thinks they’re so lovely and cool that he signed a bill forcing women to get one before obtaining an abortion.
And look, ultrasounds are cool when you’re an expectant mother who wants to know how your pregnancy are going. But we know what Walker’s law was for. It wasn’t for anything cool. It wasn’t for anything lovely.
Walker signed the bill to tell women they can’t be trusted to make decisions for themselves. It was to guilt women into deciding to cancel abortions after seeing the pictures of their pregnancies. (Spoiler alert: it doesn’t work, according to a study published last year in Obstetrics & Gynecology.)
Scott Walker, who wants to be the next president of the United States, thinks it’s cool to force women to go through unnecessary, humiliating medical procedures because he believes he knows better than they do. That ain’t cool; that ain’t lovely. And while his anti-choice extremism may help him in the GOP primary process, it’s not going to fly come general election time.
