A legislative battle over abortions and ultrasounds has reached the Illinois House floor. Abortion opponents want to require that women be given the option of seeing an ultrasound image of their fetus before undergoing an abortion. Unlike proposals in some other states, it would not force women to obtain an ultrasound. Abortion-rights advocates are fighting the bill. They proposed a series of amendments yesterday that were meant to kill the idea, including making men view a video on the side effects of Viagra and other erectile-dysfunction medications. The House overwhelmingly rejected the amendments. But the sponsor postponed action on the underlying bill. Democratic Representative Joe Lyons of Chicago said some backers were absent, so a vote will be taken later.
Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.
