Hundreds of Women Stage Silent Protest Outside Virginia Capitol

Why treat them to a good time, besides some of them are probably used to it.....I say find out who voted yes, then swarm him, pull his pants down and insert the dildo cam into his rectum to see if there is a brain in there.....

"...they'd hafta pull his head out of his ass first."

You're 100% right about that, proglib!

Implant a perminate catheter that might get their attention.

"I think we are beginning to see the women stepping up and saying NO MORE"

From your lips and fingers to God's eyes and ears.

I think it started with the SGK

Agreed. That hit home with a lot of women, as most of us have known someone with breast cancer.

When SGK reversed their decision, I think it made us feel more empowered, that even in this country of 300+ million people, our voices could be heard, loudly and clearly.

"I suggest that wives of republican men simply deny access until the Neanderthals get it.'

You mean the dutiful Stepford wives? Not likely. They don't think their men are ever wrong, and even if they are, they would never say so. They likely think that they, nor any of their family, will ever have need of any such things anyway. And if they do, they have enough money for it, so to hell with the riff-raff American women.

The AP has picked up the story.

Just beneath the beltline of her blue jeans was a strip of yellow tape that read “Private Property: Keep Out.”

And that says it all. Hands off to all rapist including the government. This is no different than the intrusiveness of forced sterilizations.

I don't understand your comment = sounds like you are saying they are smart enought to use reverse psychology - which their not... But, I keep wondering why they are sabotaging getting elected? Make no sense to me... but it must be what they're doing because I have NEVER seen a political party do and say so much venomus stuff that they have to know just how mad they are getting people! Or, they are not religious after all and they really are a devil cult... after all the amount of hate they are constantly spewing resembles that of a very angry demon (from all the depiction of the devil in movies)...

Hmmm--

Perhaps because they were VOTING on a ridiculous bill about women...

and um...lots of you know...WOMEN showed up.

and your point?

Made my point. If you choose to have a pre-pinion and NOT see my point...well that's up to you.

I'm not upset, I'm angry.

I haven't voted GOP for a really REALLY long time...for ANY office.

I don't live in Virginia.

I knew what coming...could have clued in all those people so in love with the ridiculous Tea Party BEFORE the 2010 election, but nobody asked me.

These days, the Karing Khristian Konservatives don't appear to HAVE values.

I'm glad to see EVEN women in a very red State like Virginia standing up to this bullsh!t. I don't care who they voted for in the past.

Look out GOP...if the women of America get together on this, your party will come apart at the seams.

Your recent votes put in office the majority conservatives of the GOP in Virginia.

Funny, I don't recall voting for any of these @!$%#s.

Ugh, that bill was written by a woman?!? What the hell is she thinking?

Don't forget the Drs. being forced to perform this procedure against their will. They also object...

Precisely...one would think that the conscious clause would apply to this. No, the woman would just have to go to another Doc to get it done.

Their silence is being heard all over the Nation.

Actions do speak louder than words eh?

It should speak volumes to Republicans.

Ah John Franklin Mason, but the Republicans are deaf in one ear and can't hear out of the other. Selective hearing as it were.

Emmadadog

So true. Yet we the people hear. We hear loud and clear all the way to 2016 and beyond.

For our nation to move forward, we MUST move away from the "idealized" past where everyone knew their place and damn well stayed in it.

A past that we all know never existed except in the Republican distortions.

For God's sake, Happy Days was a TV show and Peter Pan was a book. Someone should wake these idiots up that TV shows and books are not reality. Even reality shows are not reality.

Radio Free America-I have always been impressed by your comments and insight. FR humbly sent.

Ah John Franklin Mason, but the Republicans are deaf in one ear and can't hear out of the other. Selective hearing as it were.

Emmadadog

True, but I betcha the silence of hundreds of women is deafening eh?

Emmadadog

Radio Free America-I have always been impressed by your comments and insight. FR humbly sent.

Same here. Graciously accepted. We are this country. That is our place no matter the propaganda of the politicans.

@Sharon J,

Promise this crazy not-so-old man that, 'cause I'm hoping that you ladies will kick these clowns right in the ballot boxes!

Just wait until we vote. You will hear us then.

Sharon J-1312993

Another silent statement to get the word out loud and clear eh?

There is always someone that says, " it is all covered under Obamacare". Reduce the cost of healthcare? Wow, on what planet. They do not have a clue what that word or program is all about. I would like to see the republican party support women, their children and our elderly. It would be a treat if they supported the middle class.

It would be covered free by Obamacare and it would reduce the cost of health care in the long run.

As if money was the primary concern here, and not the forced ,"small government" apparatus American citizens that would be forced into their bodies. The only thing that gives solace from the conservative war on women is the timing and the upcoming election.53% of the vote in 2008 was by American Women 57% voted Democratic . Santorum For the Republican candidate. Please.

Hello again Texas...you still haven't told me when you're getting the forced vasectomy I'm demanding. I should get to make that decision for you....

RIGHT?

When you grow a uterus you can give me your opinion.

Until then...

Bubye!

Curious if those who claim to support "life" actually are in favor of doing anything or even just supporting state and/or federal programs that support "life" once born?

Doubt it though.

Texasguy:

I support life and am shocked at all of the pro death supporters and the twisted lies being spread about this bill.

I'm shocked at the illogical contortions anti-abortionists go through to make abortion more difficult and dangerous for women to obtain. If you want to make abortion illegal, then propose legislation or a constitutional amendment that does just that.

This tactic of punishing women for seeking a legal procedure is hypocritical and contrary to the spirit of the law. It's similar to—if murder were legal—requiring murderers to pay a $10,000,000 tax rather than outlawing it. Would you support that kind of idiocy as well?

Texasguy, we all support life, quality of life. You seem to think you are the only one, you have placed yourself on a pedestal. Texas passed this crazy law, maybe you can buy tickets for public viewing. Women can think this through for themselves, they do not need you, Rick Perry or Virginia telling them that they must have an invasive procedure.

We have all heard them scream about getting government out of their life. They are so two-faced it is laughable. I do refuse to let our government control our female organs and our bodies. Those that claim they care for "life" are just spouting rhetoric. They do not care about the child after it is born. They do not care women at all.

So many young, and I mean young girls need birth control if they has a disorder where they develop cysts. I wish birth control was available when I went through that nightmare. They put me on birth control when I was 18 but it was to late for save my ovary and uterus's. On my 21 st birthday, I was in the hospital having major surgery to remove all my female organs. They were 4 times the size they should of been from scar tissue and beyond saving. In those days, I had to be married and my husband had to sign all my hospital forms or they would not do that surgery.

I remember the days before birth control. I also remember what it was like for women that needed/wanted an abortion. That is a personal decision which is painful enough. In those day, to many women died because someone unskilled preformed the procedure.

Anyone supporting this forced agenda, has some wonderful image of days gone by. I have no desire to witness that inhuman behavior again. I think most women would rather die than go through life where every aspect of our life is controlled by some man, institution or government.

genevieveva--

I'm so sorry for what you went through. Having had my own fair share of girl issues (only one ovary left and the factory is quite shut down these days)...I can imagine what that must have been like.

When an aunt of mine was first married, they got pregnant quickly and had their first child before they were ready financially. Since this was the late 1960's, birth control pills were very new and only prescribed through the "family doctor."

My aunt went to our family doctor, on the advice of her mother and asked for the pill. The DOCTOR objected by saying, "Isn't your family catholic?"

He told her to go home and "think about it"..and if she still wanted to get on the pill, she could come back in 3 months.

She had no choice but to do that. Two months later she was coloring her mother's hair (my grandmother) one afternoon when my grandmother asked her if she was taking that pill yet. My aunt answered that no, she wasn't.

When my grandmother asked, "WHY NOT!? You know that you can't afford another baby yet!"

My aunt answered, "I'm pregnant."

That's how she got the second of four children and then she and her husband struggled to make ends meet for the next 20 years...all because the "family doctor" decided he would make that decision FOR her...based on religion.

That was 1969.

THIS is 2012...and I refuse to allow American women to go back there without a fight.

only married women had access to oral contraceptives

and ONLY the ones who didn't have a "family doctor" object and refuse on religious grounds.

Colodomon, I remember those days all to well. I think we all need to start talking to our friends, family, loved ones. This is not the old republican party that I remember. I know my father would NOT support their new agenda. By the way, your statement:

When you grow a uterus you can give me your opinion.

Until then...

Bubye!

Gave me the best laugh I have had all day. I lost so many youthful years to that condition. When I was 17, I looked pregnant all the time and I was on a sodium free diet that severe heart patients had to follow. Nothing helped. To this day, Doctors look at me like I am crazy when I tell them it was the best surgery I ever had. My doctor came into the room to talk to me after the surgery. He sit down and actually apologized to me. He said he had done surgery on 80 yr old women that looked better than I did.

I remember to many unwanted (unexpected) pregnancies and the impact it had on the family and community. I remember the huge foster homes filled with unwanted children. I remember the impact this had on those poor children that lived there. I lost a good friend because she got pregnant at 54. She was like a second mother to me and a lot older but such a good soul. She lived two years after she gave birth but her heart was so damaged from having so many children. We forget that prior to birth control, more women died from child birth related issues than all the men killed in our wars.

The thought of returning to those ugly days.... we can not let that happen ladies.

Gen

I remember to many unwanted (unexpected) pregnancies and the impact it had on the family and community. I remember the huge foster homes filled with unwanted children. I remember the impact this had on those poor children that lived there.

So true there was a time when as often as we currently here of violent crimes in the news, we heard of women dying from botched abortions. PBS some years back aired a program on the children of the streets in New York City in the early 1900's. They had been abandon by their parents, especially single mothers due to limited contraceptions and lack of legal abortions.

Beau...

It's similar to—if murder were legal—requiring murderers to pay a $10,000,000 tax rather than outlawing it.

What about this analogy...

Smoking is legal, as is abortion, so what if anti-smoking proponents passed a law that required people to undergo a lung biopsy before they could buy a pack of cigarettes?

cynergy

Smoking is legal, as is abortion, so what if anti-smoking proponents passed a law that required people to undergo a lung biopsy before they could buy a pack of cigarettes?

Love it. And have people who are going to have a drink of alcohol have a liver biopsy before drinking as a new form of Prohibition.

Exactly, cynergy and Radio Free America.

They're hiding their real agenda in order to skirt the rule of law. I wish politicians and those who think for them would just have the courage to stand up and argue for what they really want, so their motives would be plain to all.

I have to give this to Santorum—he's getting closer every day to being honest enough to say he wants America to be a theocratic dictatorship based on his own understanding of God's word. Maybe with more honesty, those who enable extremists by turning a blind eye to their true motives will wake up and see what they're helping to bring to power here: a Christian Taliban.

Smoking is legal, as is abortion, so what if anti-smoking proponents passed a law that required people to undergo a lung biopsy before they could buy a pack of cigarettes?

Love it. And have people who are going to have a drink of alcohol have a liver biopsy before drinking as a new form of Prohibition.

Only if they retrieve that liver or lung biopsy through the drinker's or smoker's penis or vagina.