The horror of showing a woman there is an actual human being in their womb before having it sucked out and thrown in the dumpster.

(Chron) — A national abortion rights group has filed suit in federal court to stop implementation of a new Texas law that requires women seeking an abortion to undergo a sonogram and have details of the fetal image explained to them.

Claiming the amendment to the state’s Woman’s Right To Know Act is unconstitutionally vague and violates physicians’ freedom of speech, the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights filed the motion for a preliminary injunction in Austin Thursday.

Gov. Rick Perry, who had called passage of such a measure an emergency, signed the amendment into law on May 19. The Center for Reproductive Rights first filed a lawsuit against the amendment, which becomes effective in October, in mid-June.

Under the provisions of the amendment, sponsored in the Senate by Katy Republican Dan Patrick, women seeking abortions must obtain a sonogram and listen as physicians describe the image. The law also provides for women to look at the sonogram and listen to fetal heartbeats, but they have the option to decline.

Exceptions are provided for women with pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.

The law also requires a 24-hour waiting period between the final consultation and the abortion unless the woman lives more than 100 miles from a clinic, where upon a two-hour waiting period is imposed.

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