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GOP Pushing Mandatory Invasive Ultrasound Legislation in Pennsylvania Too
Seeded on Tue Feb 21, 2012 4:33 PM EST
Article Source: Little Green Footballs
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Virginia isn’t the only state in which Republicans are trying to pass vicious slut-shaming mandatory ultrasound laws, of course; the GOP is also pushing this misogynistic legislation in Louisiana, North Carolina, Texas, and now Pennsylvania.
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#1 - Tue Feb 21, 2012 4:33 PM ESTWell this presents a unique opportunity for women, a chance to give the Republicans a paid vacation to hell-n-"hopefully not" back. They need to practice the old "aspirin between the knees" contraception method until all the flakes in the Republican party are relegated to the trash pile of history.
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#2 - Tue Feb 21, 2012 5:41 PM ESTI don't envy Republican women, they are asked to put party above country and now are asked to put party above cupitulation of their own sexual rights. I don't pity them either, as they have helped create the situation they now find themselves in. Once bitten, twice burned?
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It seems even most GOP women in Virginia are against this bill:
After all, the bill was, in the words of which Delegate Kaye Kory, "an assault on the freedom and liberty of women in the commonwealth of Virginia." Now, it seems thanks in part to the people's protests, it's one step further from becoming the law.
Virginia Republicans claim that protests by about 1,000 people outside the state Capitol were not the cause for the delay. And they're not confirming that it has anything to do with Republican Governor Bob McDonnell's potential run as vice-president. Instead, they're saying members of the Senate were "trying to coordinate some things." (Eloquent, eh?) But I have a feeling that Virginians' voices were heard. Contrary to what the right may argue, the bill hasn't been widely supported by voters. A new poll in the state shows it to be unpopular, with 55 percent opposed to the legislation and only 36 percent in support.
In the wake of the Susan G. Komen and Planned Parenthood debacle last month, this is just another example of how women standing together and up for their health can make a real difference.
And that's the way it should be after all, right, being that our government is supposed to be by the people, for the people? But sometimes we forget that laws affecting women should be condoned by women themselves. Clearly, the bill being debated in Virginia government right now is contentious for a reason: Many women feel a forced transvaginal ultrasound would be invasive and detrimental. It would require women to undergo and doctors to do a procedure that is medically unnecessary.
It really is scary to think about a bill like this making it to law-dom, but at least for now, we can rest assured it won't. And that Virginia Republicans will have to swallow that bitter pill that they cannot sneakily undermine women's health. No, no, they have actual women to answer to.
Do you see delay of this bill as a win for women's health?
http://thestir.cafemom.com/healthy_living/133331/virginia_abortion_bill_is_so
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