Bill to shame women

I found this article in the Austin American Statesman, Ultrasound bill is an outrageous intrusion by the Texas Legislature, Under the editorials section.

The writer started the article concern with how State Republican leaders are making sure that the culture wars continue to rage. He said First came the spurious voter identification bill in the Senate that opened this year's legislative session. Now comes an intrusive bill mandating that pregnant women seeking an abortion be force-fed information designed to humiliate them.

This antiabortion bill will require an ultrasound before an abortion, which the writer adds that already is performed on every woman seeking an abortion because it's medically necessary. The writer seem quite upset at the provision that anti-abortion information be read to the woman before the procedure, that the ultrasound image be described in detail and that the heartbeat be audible.Such information can't be refuse in this bill before an abortion.

In my opinion the writer is upset with republican leaders in the legislature and is writing to a non republican, liberal audience. The writer is also very concerned with the humiliation of women and how many of them are already traumatized by an unexpected pregnancy and the decision to have an abortion.The writer also seems upset on how the States of Texas leaders are so protective of abortion but are always grudging when it comes to extending insurance to children of the working poor. What threw me off is how the writer closes with a whole different bill that aims to prevent teen pregnancies by teaching sex education. Which he argues is more effective than humiliation.

I totally agree with the writers point of view on education rather than humiliation to reduce the number of abortions, but the writer took this issue too personal to close it with an agreement on a different bill going on to oppose this one. I think that the main issue for the writer is woman's rights not teen education, and that for people trying to fight this bill there should be a bigger emphasis on what goes behind an abortion that would make this bill be inhumane. I also feel that there is a lack of facts besides the humiliation of pregnant woman that readers that are man or women never been pregnant can agree with. I think the article is good article, but the structure in my opinion could be better.