Yesterday some top Dems supported other Dems with Right to Life views

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6. Did you read Omaha Steve's excellent clarification of the mischaracterization of

Mello's stance of forcing ultrasound for women?

Either those describing Mello's stance on ultrasound were lazy, mistaken, or...

I urge you to go back and read the excellent clarification he posted.

It's at:https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028967293 and the first several paragraphs are these:

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A false claim about Heath Mello in a front page diary has been corrected. Thank you, Daily Kos.


WOW!!! How did so many miss this? Fake news discredited on 4-20-17 with actual links and stuff!

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/4/20/1654741/-David-Nir-is-wrong

By Nova Land 2017/04/20 · 13:24

Snip: First, here’s a link to the text of the bill Mello co-sponsored. I urge people to read the text for themselves. I have, and can attest to the fact that the bill does not require women to undergo ultrasound. Rather, it requires the doctor to give the woman a list of places where ultrasounds can be done (including, and clearly specifying, places which will do it for free), but the choice of whether to have one or not is left to the woman.

The law also states that, if the doctor needs to do an ultrasound prior to the abortion for medical reasons then the doctor must inform the woman an ultrasound is being done and offer her the choice of viewing the screen, but the choice of whether to view or not is hers.

This is very different from how the law is being misrepresented. There were many laws passed which did require women to have ultrasounds; this one does not.

A number of people on this site yesterday were repeating the false claim that Mello favored forced ultrasounds and had co-sponsored a law requiring women to undergo ultrasounds. One source of this misinformation is VoteSmart. VoteSmart is usually a good source, but in this case they screwed up badly. On their page regarding the Nebraska law they give both the wrong title and the wrong summary. (Their summary claims the Nebraska law mandates women must have an ultrasound before having an abortion; the actual law says just the opposite.)

FULL story at link.

And from Nebraska's LARGEST news gathering agency 2 days ago: http://www.omaha.com/news/politics/bernie-sanders-stumps-for-heath-mello-in-omaha-stirs-national/article_284457a1-a7d1-5d79-ae2e-9c8bc68ea31e.html