North Carolina's new anti-choice law

This pisses me off to no end. The N.C. legislature and senate have overridden Governor Bev Perdue's veto of H.B. 854, the "Women Know Nothing" Act (that's what I call it!) This bill undermines the doctor-patient relationship and interferes in a woman's ability to make her own health-care decisions. Here are just some of the restrictions that women will now face when they try to access abortion in NC:

• Women will be forced to wait 24 hours before they can access abortion care.
• Doctors will be required to perform ultrasounds, even if they are not medically necessary, before providing abortion care.
• Physicians must read a script written by anti-choice legislators that includes medical inaccuracies to women prior to the procedure.

What’s worse, there are no exceptions to any of these provisions, including in instances of rape, incest, or fetal anomaly. These politically motivated attacks will have very real and devastating consequences on North Carolina women.

This infuriates me so much that I think if I ever found myself in a situation where I needed an abortion I would cross state lines to do it. Or find an NC doctor willing to break this stupid, harmful law. Honestly.

Watch out, ladies - governments at both the state and federal levels are barging in on our exam rooms and uteruses, eroding away at our rights and dignity as mightily as they know how.