Reporter Megan Carpentier Undergoes ‘Unnecessary’ Transvaginal Ultrasound to Frame Abortion Debate | Communications Major | Scoop.it

The GOP's war on women has enacted laws in at least 3 states and tried to pass them in several others that would require this painful and unnecessary procedure should a woman choose to end a pregnancy. The reporter, who was not pregnant, underwent the procedure and then wrote that mandating a transvaginal ultrasound is


"...not a choice to be made at a distance by elected officials with an ideological axe to grind, little medical knowledge and a belief that it's acceptable to require doctors to put unnecessary instruments inside women's bodies in an effort to achieve in practice what they can't constitutionally pass into law: an end to abortion."