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Who have decided which medical procedure you will have and you will pay for by order of state law. thus he is known as governor ultrasound. but rightfully, he should not be the only governor ultrasound. because he is not the only republican governor to sign a forced ultrasound law in the last few years. they have them in texas, in louisiana, in indiana, in kansas and arizona and wisconsin. this is a relatively recent invention, this idea that state government should force you to have an ultrasound, essentially, as the price of having an abortion, even if you and your doctor do not want you to ...

Forced ultrasound law in the last few years. they have them in texas, in louisiana, in indiana, in kansas and arizona and wisconsin. this is a relatively recent invention, this idea that state government should force you to have an ultrasound, essentially, as the price of having an abortion, even if you and your doctor do not want you to have an ultrasound. it's a relatively recent idea. but since the idea took hold, republicans have been pushing it all over the country. and the push for these laws happened all at once, all over the country, not because republican governors and legislatures al...

And arizona and wisconsin. this is a relatively recent invention, this idea that state government should force you to have an ultrasound, essentially, as the price of having an abortion, even if you and your doctor do not want you to have an ultrasound. it's a relatively recent idea. but since the idea took hold, republicans have been pushing it all over the country. and the push for these laws happened all at once, all over the country, not because republican governors and legislatures all got the same idea all at once, but because of model legislation, a group called americans united for lif...

This is florida governor jeb bush signing the first stand your ground law in 2005. the woman next to him is former nra president and powerful lobbyist. after the bill was signed, miss hammer approached the corporate backed american legislate i have exchange council. and asked them to adopt florida's law as a model bill. the law was approved unanimously. it became a template that a.l.e.c. and the nra pushed across the country. a vast right wing conspiracy? there are powerful groups at work here. and it's time to do something about it. joining me now is adam wienstein. adam wrote a new article o...

Fighting and many of us in the civil rights community including me have asked corporations to look at what a.l.e.c. has done here. they've had stand your ground as a model bill which quote, based upon florida legislation enacted april 16, 2005. so when we say a model bill, they actually took this bill around the country as the template for other states to really duplicate this and pass legislation. >> that's right. a.l.e.c. is a group that calls itself the largest group of independent legislators in the country. 98% of funding comes from corporations and foundations. and when that bill came to...