I pit Gov. Scott Walker for mandating the unnecessary inserting of objects into women

[Bricker]

@iiandyiiii

Resurrecting this thread because of a new study:

The findings are essentially this – looking at an ultrasound does not change women’s decision to have an abortion. Women really are capable of making this decision without ‘help’ from the government.

I’ll also bring up that in this post, Bricker says that he would oppose mandatory ultrasound requirements if it could be proved that it had no affect on their decisions to have an abortion.

So, Bricker, do you stand by your statement, and now oppose such requirements?

The study says that a small number of women did change their minds:

Patients opted to view the ultrasound image 42.5% of the time. Nearly all pregnancies (98.8%) were terminated: 98.4% of pregnancies among women who viewed their ultrasound images and 99.0% of pregnancies among the patients who did not.

So there is a tiny difference – maybe not even significant statistically.

What I said at the time was that I expected a significant number…I might have tossed out 25%. If it had been, say, ten percent, I might have made a case that the benefit still outweighed the imposition on liberty.

But this, I concede, was not. I have only read the abstract, so I may reverse my opinion again if the study methodology is flawed in some way, but based on this evidence, I agree: the law is not justified.