She first came to WWHA on a Friday to receive state-mandated counseling, have a state-mandated ultrasound to date the pregnancy, and to be read a state-mandated script of several bullet points. These range from medical misinformation about when a fetus feels pain and a warning about the “physical risks to a woman having an abortion,” to a controversial line about when life “begins.” After the ultrasound was done, she was required to see an image of a fetus that corresponded to her gestational age. The state requires that this image be in color. Nowhere does this script emphasize that abortion
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