in a more enlightened era. I feel for the young women that will have to deal with this stupidity! A friend of mine from a family of religious conservatives tells me that the ethos on the subject is very simple: anything is acceptable to prevent abortion. By that logic this is just another means toward that end. Personally, I am beginning to see some rather perverse sexual ideations creeping into the GOP base. I'm not sure exactly what is at the root of it, but things like this, or describing your sexual activity level to your supervisor, strike me as the sort of thing designed to fill someone's "spank bank" as it were. Something is rotting in there and the smell is just starting to leak out. I don't need to comment. The post says it all. My grandfather was a doctor before medicine was owned by insurance and pharmaceutical companies, I and suspect he's rotored his way to the core of the earth by now. Idea -- When the State mandates a medically unnecessary procedure, the State should have to pay for it, including travel expenses and loss of pay. I don't know what a transvaginal ultrasound costs, but it doen't sound cheap and doesn't sound like the sort of thing that would be available in a country doctor's office. @Scribe: When a soldier refuses to torture captives, because it violates their personal moral code, they are charged with a court martial. No... just plain out no. As an