To CRR’s claim that a court fight will waste taxpayer money, he replied:
“It is they who are filing the lawsuit. That charge makes no sense.”
Asked how the law will affect abortion doctors, Lauinger answered that abortion is “an assembly-line, mass-production type of process” that is “extremely impersonal” and has “virtually no interchange between the abortionist and the woman.”
“So this will provide much more beneficial information to a woman before she gets the abortion,” he explained.
If the doctor is the one explaining the images of the ultrasound screen, he noted, the law will actually increase the amount of contact between the doctors and the patient.
The law may also increase the amount of time a doctor spends explaining the consequences of abortion on her unborn child.
“The abortion industry tries to hide the truth from women about the baby in the womb. This law will help provide to the women a window on her womb.”
In Lauinger’s view, it is much better for a woman to have that knowledge before she takes the “irrevocable and lethal step of having her own child killed by abortion.” Otherwise, she could suffer “devastating results” when she sees an ultrasound on television or on a friend’s refrigerator and feels “powerless to undo the past.”
Asked to explain why legislators were so supportive of the law, he said Oklahoma has a “wonderful legislature” and “great elected officials” in the state House and Senate.
“The people of Oklahoma are pro-life, this issue is one with which our legislators are familiar.”
“They recognize the commonsense benefits of providing a woman all possible info prior to an abortion,” Lauinger explained. “Hopefully many unborn children will have their very lives spared.”
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Legislators who did not support the bill are “overlooking some important factors,” he thought.
Abortion facilities routinely perform ultrasounds already, including the facility that has filed suit against such laws, he reported. “They acknowledged that they do an ultrasound before every abortion that they perform.
“What this bill does is require the abortion facility to turn the screen at an angle where the mother may view it. She can see it if she wants to look.
“Such a commonsense measure could save a lot of lives and spare a lot of women a lifetime of emotional and psychological anguish. We are disappointed that some might not vote for it, and very disappointed that the governor chose to veto it.
“We don’t do pregnant women any favors when we hide the truth from them,” Lauinger told CNA.