they do? Maybe they have recourse as the good doctor/author suggests in other states, but in Texas they'll be hunted down like wild hogs. Patients, if your doctor doesn't refuse to perform this procedure, find another doctor. If enough of you do this, the doctors will get the message and do their duty to their patients, as Dr. Anonymous above describes. I would suggest that many doctors are ignoring this issue because they won't have to do the actual rape-procedure. That will be handled by a Radiologic Technologist and the MD only has to look at pictures. And I can call it rape because I've had one (wasn't told ahead of time that I needed a full bladder in order for them to look at my uterus from outside). It is invasive and painful. I'm leaving the house for an event with my daughter. During that time I won't have a full range of editing tools, so if I find something I need to Mallet I'll drop it into the moderation queue. When I get back home I'll return it, with the reason why it was malleted. I just wanted to add my thanks to the many other expressions of gratitude here. Doctor Anonymous, may you go forth and heal for a hundred more years. Scalzi, when there are casbahs which need rocking, you arrive, and you rock them all. If we were at all geographically close, I would volunteer to have my empty uterous imaged. I'd even sign a