Transvaginal ultrasounds are solidly on the list of “medical procedures no one wants but you’ll probably need at some point anyway.” This type of ultrasound can be useful if your doctor needs to get a ...

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Plenty of pundits on both sides of the ideological aisle have weighed in on the country's ongoing abortion debate and the transvaginal ultrasound mandates passed by several states—what some people ...

A Republican legislator in Michigan has proposed legislation that would require women to go through an invasive procedure known as a transvaginal ultrasound before they could get an abortion. The bill ...

RICHMOND, Va. (CN) - Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell signed into law a bill that requires women to have an ultrasound procedure before they can legally have an abortion ...

It’s not as if “Doonesbury,” the comic strip, hasn’t tackled controversial subjects before. Still, the series just released, which features a woman seeking an abortion being forced to undergo a ...

This week, the Virginia state Legislature passed a bill that would require women to have an ultrasound before they may have an abortion. Because the great majority of abortions occur during the first ...

“Are we now going to have to convince our patients we are not raping them?” A longtime abortion provider posed that question to colleagues on a listserv this week, and it demonstrates what is ...

Several states are considering laws that would mandate an ultrasound before a woman has an abortion. Critics say the laws are unnecessary and intrusive, and the debate reached a fever pitch recently ...

Let a fellow student conduct an “invasive” transvaginal ultrasound on you while your teacher calls you “sexy” and suggests you should be an “escort girl,” or be “blacklisted” from working at local ...