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77 Things That Are Cooler Than A Mandatory Ultrasound

77 Things That Are Cooler Than A Mandatory Ultrasound
Emma Gray
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Senior Women's Reporter, HuffPost

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (and potential 2016 presidential candidate) thinks that mandatory ultrasounds for women seeking abortions are "just a cool thing."

When you think "cool," the first thing that probably comes to mind is forcing women who are seeking to terminate a pregnancy to undergo a procedure where the "ultrasound technician point[s] out a fetus' visible organs and external features to the woman before she has an abortion."

No? Not so much?

As super-duper awesome as mandatory ultrasounds seem -- right up there with sipping mimosas and taking a beach vacay with your girl friends -- there are at least a few things that are "cooler." Here are 77 of them:

  1. Giving yourself a breast self-exam

  • Getting 10 messages in a row on OKCupid that just say "Hey"

  • Cleaning red wine off your white couch

  • All-white Emojis

  • Backlit selfies

  • Renting a car

  • Cleaning the crumbs out of the bottom of your purse

  • Pinning crap on Pinterest titled "15 Minutes To A Better Body: Tracy Anderson's Fast Fat Blaster"

  • Taking your kid to the dentist

  • Cleaning out the cat's litter box

  • Sweeping spaghetti off the floor

  • Cleaning out your junk drawer

  • Facebook stalking your ex

  • TurboTax

  • Plunging a toilet

  • Flossing

  • Dusting

  • Sorting through bank statements

  • Sunday errands

  • Grocery shopping

  • Trying to get everything from your iPhone on the cloud

  • Cleaning your bathtub

  • Waiting for your nail polish to dry

  • Bathing suit shopping

  • The peeling phase of a sunburn

  • Getting in a Twitter fight

  • Pat-drying tofu

  • Googling "Michael Fassbender girlfriend?" and then getting sad

  • Hiding engagement photos from your Facebook feed

  • Ultra-ribbed condoms

  • Colonoscopies

  • Dick pics on Snapchat

  • FaceTiming with bad wifi

  • Wondering what Pam spray actually is

  • Waiting for your bag to come off the carousel at the airport

  • Giving your dog a bath

  • Giving your cat a bath

  • Cleaning out the rotten food from your fridge

  • Cleaning crud from earring backs

  • Folding laundry

  • Sitting in traffic

  • Changing a flat tire

  • Feeding squirrels when you are secretly afraid of them

  • Feeding pigeons when you are secretly afraid of them

  • Having your eyes dilated at the eye doctor

  • Stepping in gum

  • The sound of two pieces of polystyrene rubbing together

  • The smell of burning hair

  • Attending an amateur ska band's concert

  • Spending half a day trying to figure out which smoke detector is beeping

  • Getting the hiccups on a first date

  • Transferring all your contacts from your old phone to your new one

  • Attending a barre class

  • Going to IKEA when it's extremely crowded

  • Transporting your IKEA purchases on the subway

  • IKEA in general

  • The "cannot take photo" iPhone alert

  • Accidentally walking into a mosh pit

  • Realizing Joey Fatone hosted a celebrity cook-off show

  • Sleeping on a plane

  • Eating plane food

  • Picking up your dog's poop

  • Having a rock in your shoe

  • Eating a stick of butter

  • Realizing you accidentally bought peanut M&Ms instead of regular M&Ms

  • Tripping in heels

  • Realizing you're not Beyoncé

  • Stubbing your toe

  • Putting aloe on a sunburn

  • Falling off the elliptical at the gym

  • Saying "hi" to someone who doesn't hear you

  • Running into an acquaintance from high school

  • Getting sick on vacation

  • Forgetting your iPod/iPhone when you go to the gym

  • Manspreading

  • Waving back to someone without realizing they're waving to someone behind you

  • Getting a cavity filled

    • And there you have it, Scotty.

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