"Ron Paul hates govt intervention, likes mandatory vaginal ultrasound probes" [View all]

[ProSense]

@KathaPollittKatha Pollitt

Ron Paul hates govt intervention, likes mandatory vaginal ultrasound probes http://tinyurl.com/7hqwdlg

https://twitter.com/KathaPollitt/status/157554848890486785

The article linked to:

Ron Paul hates invasive government but supports state-mandated sonograms

By Lori Stahl and Mary C. Curtis

WEST COLUMBIA, South Carolina — When GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul was asked today about Tuesday’s federal court ruling upholding an aggressive new sonogram law in his home state of Texas, the congressman said the requirement that women seeking an abortion first get a sonogram “should always have been a Texas state position.’’

“Like Roe v Wade should never have been heard in the Supreme Court,” he said after a midday speech and rally at the Columbia Metropolitan Airport at the Eagle Aviation Building .

Paul, who opposes abortion rights, has consistently railed against intrusive Big Brother government when it comes to other issues, especially health care reform. But it’s hard to imagine anything more literally invasive than a required sonogram.

In fact, Dr. Paul’s colleagues in the Texas Medical Association came out against the law last year, saying it “not only sets a dangerous precedent of legislation prescribing the details of the practice of medicine, but it also clearly mandates that physicians practice in a manner inconsistent with medical ethics.”

- more -

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/ron-paul-hates-invasive-government-but-supports-state-mandated-sonograms/2012/01/11/gIQAcikYrP_blog.html