Posts filed under ‘Sexism’
If I Wanted the Government in My Womb…
On Sunday a woman wearing this T-shirt was kicked off an American Airlines flight because it offended the crew:
In this country, you see, fundamentalist right-wing male legislators in every state can take away your rights. They can deny you access to contraception, breast exams, Pap smears, and other primary preventive care. They can deny you access to safe emergency contraception and safe medication abortion. They can force any woman in need of a safe abortion to listen to lies about outcomes of the procedure long disproven by medical science and public health professionals. They can mandate that you to listen to religious dogma at crisis pregnancy centers, force you to look at an ultrasound or hear a heartbeat, make you wait 24-, 36-, 72-hours before you can get a safe, legal abortion, just because they feel like it, and just because they feel like it, they can raise the costs of that abortion — in terms of travel, childcare, medical expenses and time — to really shame you good. Moreover, they feel empowered to coerce you into procedures like trans-vaginal ultrasounds, which I maintain is a form of state-sponsored rape.
But protest these laws and the War on Women with a t-shirt that gets right to the point? Let people know the basis of all of it, the people that “want government out of our lives” want to place it directly into our bodies? In a country supposedly founded on freedom of speech and expression, in which protestors can stand outside clinics harassing and threatening women and doctors, and run through every public square with gory doctored photos? A country in which other protestors can stand outside the funerals of gay soldiers killed in duty and scream disgusting insults, and still have their rights protected?
Oh, no. You can’t do that.
So true. So true.
A Message For Wisconsin State Senator Glenn Grothman (R-ALEC)
Bravo to the Second City Network for this little ditty directed at Wisconsin State Senator Glenn Grothman who introduced a bill ending equal pay for women (yes, ending equal pay for women). (How do these guys sleep at night?) The bill passed and was signed into law by another wholly-owned subsidiary of ALEC, pipsqueak Governor Scott Walker.
Per the Second City’s YouTube page:
Contact Wisconsin State Senator Glenn Grothman:
Madison Office:
Room 10 South
State Capitol
P.O. Box 7882
Madison, WI 53707-7882
Telephone:
(608) 266-7513 or
(800) 662-1227
Fax
(608) 282-3560
Email
Sen.Grothman@legis.wisconsin.gov
Women in Tennessee Who Naturally Miscarry Could be Charged With Murder
WARNING to all women in Tennessee: If you have a natural miscarriage, you could be charged with murder (chapter 378 in the Republican war on women):
(Image via.)
Bill Authorizes Prosecution for Death of an Embryo
NASHVILLE — The Senate approved and sent to Gov. Bill Haslamon Monday legislation that allows criminal prosecution for causing the death of “a human embryo or fetus at any stage of gestation in utero.”
The bill (HB3517) marks the second change in two years to a law that since 1989 had it a crime to cause the death of a “viable fetus.” That was changed last year to eliminate the word “viable.”
Sen. Mae Beavers, R-Mount Juliet, the sponsor, said legislators have since learned that, under the scientific definition of a fetus, the term only applies when eight weeks or more has passed since conception. Adding “embryo” covers from the moment of conception.
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All votes against the bill came from Democrats, some of whom contended in floor debate that “embryo” is too broad.
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Rep. Jeannie Richardson, D-Memphis, said that about 50 percent of all conceptions “miscarry naturally” before the embryo reaches eight weeks and the new law is vague enough to allow prosecutions in such cases.
Interesting, isn’t it, that in all of these kinds of bills that are being passed around the country, the man’s involvement in the pregnancy is never mentioned?
My Fantasy Workday Outfit?
I haven’t read the article but I take from this cover that working women fantasize about some sort of bondage thing all day?
Who in the world are they talking to?
Tell Me Republicans Aren’t Worried About Women Voters
Check out the staging at this event in Wilmington, Delaware yesterday and then tell me Republicans aren’t worried about women voters. And oh yeah, that war on women thing never happened. It was made up by Commie Democrats.
(Photo: Tim Shaffer / Reuters)
(Via.)
Republicans Lie to Women. Period.
This would be Mitch McConnell (R-KY) today:
McConnell calls GOP’s ‘war on women’ a ‘manufactured’ issue
“Talk about a manufactured issue,” McConnell said in an interview with local Louisville, Ky., radio station WHAS on Monday.
He said his female Republican colleagues in the Senate would agree with him on that.
“There is no issue. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison [(Texas)] and Kelly Ayotte from New Hampshire and Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe from Maine, I think, would be the first to say — and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska — ‘We don’t see any evidence of this.’ “
Nothing there ladies. Nothing at all.
Meanwhile, this would be Scott Walker and the Republicans in Wisconsin on Thursday:
A Wisconsin law that made it easier for victims of wage discrimination to have their day in court was repealed on Thursday, after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) quietly signed the bill.
The 2009 Equal Pay Enforcement Act was meant to deter employers from discriminating against certain groups by giving workers more avenues via which to press charges. Among other provisions, it allows individuals to plead their cases in the less costly, more accessible state circuit court system, rather than just in federal court.
In November, the state Senate approved SB 202, which rolled back this provision. On February, the Assembly did the same. Both were party-line votes in Republican-controlled chambers.
In essence, Republicans don’t want women to be paid the same amount as men for the same job. Why? Because Republicans think women should be folding laundry; men are taking care of them (gag): Money is More Important for Men.
So Mitch. What was that you were sayin’? Your lie about there not being a Republican attack on women is an attack unto itself.
Ladies: Imagine Seeing This When You’re in the Stirups
This is the cover of the April, 2012 issue of the Texas Observer.
Creepy but true. Ugh. Makes my skin crawl.
Vote Republican ladies and we won’t just have this in Texas. Your guys want this to go national. Yippee!
Early April Fool’s Joke?
Holy cow:
Mitt Romney, mired in a frustrating slog toward the presidential nomination, has directed his top advisers to launch a multi-pronged effort to unite the Republican Party as the primaries draw to a close.
While Romney’s public activities are geared almost entirely toward winning the nomination, his campaign is on a private mission aimed beyond spring. Senior aides and surrogates — hoping to seize a moment when even some unfriendly Republicans are beginning to see Romney as inevitable — have spent the past several weeks making calls and visits to conservative leaders and activists who have resisted Romney’s candidacy.
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Among those being courted is Richard Land, a longtime leader of the Southern Baptist Convention. As a practice, Land said, he does not endorse political candidates, but he is considered a powerful barometer of the evangelical community.
Land said that after a private dinner with Romney last year at Acadiana, a Washington restaurant, Romney’s advisers have been in regular touch. Land said he recently told them that Romney could win over recalcitrant conservatives by picking Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) as his vice presidential running mate and previewing a few Cabinet selections: Santorum as attorney general, Gingrich as ambassador to the United Nations and John Bolton as secretary of state.
Can you imagine Rick Santorum as attorney general? We’d have prayer in schools and women not only wouldn’t have access to birth control, they wouldn’t be allowed to wear pants anymore. And Gingrich as ambassador to the United Nations? I don’t know if his humongous ego would fit in the building. And pair him with John Bolton as secretary of state and they’d end up pissing off the entire world and starting who knows how many new wars.
What a nightmare.
Tom Corbett — Let’s Ultrasound Your Penis
Tom Corbett, Pennsylvania’s Republican governor yesterday:
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, the fearless leader who took two years to investigate serious allegations of child rape at his state university, doesn’t get what all the fuss about this proposed ultrasound abortion bill is about. When women are forced to sit through a screening of their fetus’ ultrasound, he suggests, they can just close their eyes.
Tom Corbitt today, defending the bill:
It’s noninvasive? Strip from the waist down gov. You’re getting an ultrasound of your penis. What, you don’t want to? Feel uncomfortable? Close your damm eyes. What’s the problem? It’s noninvasive!
A Doctor Speaks Out Against Arizona’s Let-Doctors-Lie-to-Women Legislation
Last Thursday I posted about legislation wending its way through the Arizona legislature known as the “Let Women Die” law. It would permit a doctor who opposes abortion to withhold information about the condition of a patient’s fetus if they feared the patient would choose to abort if they knew how diseased and/or deformed the fetus was.
I think a better name for the legislation is let’s legalize letting “Doctors Lie to Women” or let’s legalize medical practice, because that’s essentially what it would do.
Reader beth, who commented on the post (see the link above), brought up a good point: “Where the hell has the American Medical Association been on all this?” Ah, yeah!
Well, the AMA is still MIA but finally a doctor has weighed in. Meet Dr. Megan Evans:
Imagine carrying a baby to term. You’ve waited nine long months for this moment. You’ve planned for her arrival, you’ve had the baby shower, and you’ve gone to all your prenatal appointments. All along you are told that you are progressing normally and your baby is healthy. Your delivery day comes and, at delivery, your doctor tells you your baby has a devastating abnormality. A cardiac defect or a severe structural abnormality or chromosomal abnormality… something that was likely already detected early in your pregnancy.
You then discover your doctor withheld this information from you for fear you would seek an abortion. What a nightmare.
Unfortunately, the Arizona legislation is working to make this nightmare a reality.
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I respect my patients, I trust them to make the best decision for themselves and their families, and I trust my colleagues to do the same. I, as a physician, have no right to make medical decisions for my patients based purely on what I think is best or based on my religious beliefs.
Thank you Dr. Evans. I can only imagine the hate mail you’re getting tonight. Now I’m waiting for the AMA as a whole to start making some major noise — to start SCREAMING — about this unspeakable oppression.
Limbaugh Filling Ad Air Time With PSAs
Morning tidbit:
56% of Limbaugh’s WABC ads Were Unpaid PSAs Yesterday, Versus Zero the Day Before
To date, 45 advertisers have dropped Limbaugh’s show.
Rush Limbaugh Defended the Monster Joseph Kony 2012
I. Am. Speechless.
Yesterday I posted a video produced by Invisible Children about Joseph Kony, the ruthless, soulless, ice-in-his-veins head of the “Lord’s Resistance Army,” a Ugandan militia group that kidnaps kids out of their beds.
Under threat of death, boys are made to be killers and/or mutilators (killing and/or mutilating their own parents included) and girls are forced into a life of sex slavery.
I’m ashamed to say I hadn’t heard of Joseph Kony before watching the video (see it here) but when I did, I got mad as hell. I will never forget the name or face of Joseph Kony.
As of yesterday early afternoon, the video, which was posted on March 5, had 1,845,000 views. As of today @7:42 p.m. ET, there have been 9,925,483 views.
Bravo to the world for that.
That said, check this out:
Joseph Kony, head of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a militia group in Uganda responsible for mass killings and mutilations in that country (often forcing children to perform their atrocities), is the subject of a new film intended to promote efforts to bring him to justice for crimes against humanity.
In October 2011, Joseph Kony had an unusual backer in the U.S. media: Rush Limbaugh.
At that time, President Obama announced that he had “authorized a small number of combat equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to provide assistance to regional forces that are working toward the removal of Joseph Kony from the battlefield.”
While conservatives like Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) supported the Obama administration’s effort, Limbaugh saw the announcement as an opportunity to bash the President.
Limbaugh told his audience that Obama was sending “a hundred troops to wipe out Christians” in Uganda, and that he was “help[ing] the Egyptians wipe out the Christians.”
On RushLimbaugh.com the headline was “Obama Invades Uganda, Targets Christians.”
Listen to the audio of Limbaugh ranting here.
Judging from this, and his 9-hour humiliation of Sandra Fluck, during which he proved he had no idea what Ms. Fluck said in her congressional testimony, I can only assume that a little bird plants a seed in Limbaugh’s ear and he goes off, without having any idea what he’s talking about.
Back in the day, when I blogged at the NewsHounds, conservatives would nitpick about a misplaced comma, yet they listen to Limbaugh who obviously doesn’t do his homework before he rips someone apart, as in the case of Ms. Fluck, or offers support, as in the case of the war criminal Joseph Kony.
It’s about doing ones homework and knowing what one is talking about, or it’s about not giving a flying f*ck.
430 Abortion Restrictions Introduced in State Legislatures Last Year
Holy cow, my eyes almost popped out when I read this just now:
Image via Guttmacher Institute / Guttmacher.org
By any estimate, advocates of reproductive rights have had a pretty successful week here in Washington. Dozens of companies have pulled ads from Rush Limbaugh’s show after the conservative radio host called Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” and “prostitute.” Senate Republicans are backing off their push to repeal the health reform law’s contraceptives mandate. Their House colleagues don’t look keen to pick up the fight.
Outside the beltway, though, the landscape is quite different. Despite intense backlash to some of the provisions, states could be on track for another, record-breaking year of passing restrictions on reproductive health.
“We’re looking at about 430 abortion restrictions that have been introduced into state legislatures this year, which is pretty much in the same ballpark as 2011,” says Elizabeth Nash of the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy group that focuses on health and reproductive rights. This year, Nash says, “is shaping up to be quite busy.”
Keep in mind, 2011 was already a watershed year for abortion restrictions: States passed 83 such laws, more than triple the 23 laws passed in 2010. And much of that had to do with the 2010 election, when Republicans gained control of many state legislatures. With the political makeup of state capitols unchanged, lawmakers are continuing to put more limits abortion.
More details on how Republicans are trying to foist their evangelical religious beliefs on the rest of us, here.
We’re in Afghanistan in Part to Protect Women and Improve Their Lives, Right?
So much for that:
Afghanistan’s president on Tuesday endorsed a “code of conduct” issued by an influential council of clerics that activists say represents a giant step backward for women’s rights in the country.
President Hamid Karzai’s Tuesday remarks backing the Ulema Council’s document, which allows husbands to beat wives under certain circumstances and encourages segregation of the sexes, is seen as part of his outreach to insurgents like the Taliban.
When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan prior to the 2001 U.S. invasion, girls were banned from going to school and women had to wear burqas that covered them from head to toe. Women were not allowed to leave their homes without a male relative as an escort.
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Among the rules: Women should not travel without a male guardian and women should not mingle with strange men in places like schools, markets or offices. Beating one’s wife is prohibited only if there is no “Shariah-compliant reason,” it said, referring to the principles of Islamic law.
It has suddenly become a lot harder to include the part about improving women’s lives when trying to justify why we’re still in Afghanistan.
Now Pat Robertson Attacks Sandra Fluke
Pat Robertson today:
You know there was a woman, the law student at Georgetown University who appeared before a congressional committee, and she said that students needed $3,000 a year for contraception and that they couldn’t afford it. As I understand, the Catholic school was supposed to pay for it. Now Catholics say that fornication, if you will, sex outside of marriage, is a sin. This woman is saying ‘I’m going to be committing sin but I want you to pay for my sin.’ Now am I overstating that? Rush Limbaugh got a little bit over the top on that thing but is that what it amounted to?
Do insurance companies ask men if they’re married before they agree to pay for Viagra Pat?
Geezus. It takes two to fornicate but men are entirely left out of all this.
Watch the video here.
Soccer Moms are Now Sluts and Sluts Vote
90-some percent of women alive today have used birth control at one point or another during their lifetime. That means the “soccer moms” of the last presidential election are sluts this time around.
S L U T
That’s the message Republicans are sending.
Keep it up insecure, frightened, bitter old boys but don’t forget, sluts vote.
Female Vets Call on Armed Services Radio to Drop Rush
Bravo!
The largest progressive group of veterans in America, VoteVets.org, is today releasing a statement from three female Iraq war veterans calling on Rush Limbaugh’s show to stop being broadcast by the American Forces Network (AFN).
“Rush Limbaugh has a freedom of speech and can say what he wants, but in light of his horribly misogynistic comments, American Forces Radio should no longer give him a platform. Our entire military depends on troops respecting each other – women and men. There simply can be no place on military airwaves for sentiments that would undermine that respect. When many of our female troops use birth control, for Limbaugh to say they are “sluts” and “prostitutes” is beyond the pale. It isn’t just disrespectful to our women serving our country, but it’s language that goes against everything that makes our military work. Again, we swore to uphold our Constitution, including the freedom of speech, and would not take that away from anyone – even Limbaugh. But that does not mean AFN should broadcast him. In fact, it shouldn’t.”
(Via.)
Get Rush Off Of Armed Services Radio
Let’s get Rush off of Armed Services Radio. Our tax dollars shouldn’t support humiliating the women in our military.
Seven Advertisers Have Dumped Rush
I’m likin’ this:
ProFlowers said Sunday on its Facebook page that it has suspended advertising on Limbaugh’s program because his comments about Georgetown University student Sandra Fluke “went beyond political discourse to a personal attack and do not reflect our values as a company.”
The six other advertisers that say they have pulled ads from his show are mortgage lender Quicken Loans, mattress retailers Sleep Train and Sleep Number, software maker Citrix Systems Inc., online data backup service provider Carbonite and online legal document services company LegalZoom.
Now I’m waiting for Oreck to make a move. I have an Oreck and I’ll never buy another one if they don’t.
I’m a Slut
I used birth control for approximately 20 years so, according to Rush Limbaugh, that means
I’m a Slut!
CNN’s Dana Bash Implies Democrats are Stoking the Limbaugh Fire
For the third day in a row today, Rush Limbaugh blasted the “slut,” Sandra Fluke. Yet minutes ago (@5:02 p.m. ET) CNN’s Dana Bash interviewed Ms. Fluke, remarking during the interview that, “it’s in the Democrats’ political interest” to keep this thing going.
Awe, so poor ol’ Rush is the victim, huh? Excuse me Dana. If Limbaugh hadn’t said the things he said, this wouldn’t be an issue. If he wasn’t on the third day of his insane rant, this wouldn’t be an issue. This is Limbaugh’s doing, not the Democrats’. Democrats are reacting to it, but they didn’t instigate it. This is Limbaugh’s baby.
Give. Me. A. Break.
Have Republicans Forgotten That Women Have the Right to Vote?
What with Republicans going off their rocker regarding oppressing women of late, this Sandra Fluke “slut” fiasco is not a good thing for them. But, they don’t seem to give a sh*t:
President Obama called Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke thanking her for speaking out on the contraception law — especially after Rush Limbaugh called her a “slut” on his radio show, Huffington Post reports.
Said Fluke: “He encouraged me and supported me and thanked me for speaking out about the concerns of American women. What was really personal for me was that he said to tell my parents that they should be proud.”
Meanwhile, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told Greg Sargent she was surprised that Republican leaders had yet to condemn the comment: “They won’t disassociate themselves from it. They’re tattooed with that.”
Craig Crawford: “You almost have to wonder whether the Republican Party has forgotten women have the right to vote.”
They remind me of the gang of kids who become more and more vicious in the book, Animal Farm. No one’s in charge, they try to one-up each other and they don’t care how inhuman, cruel or uncivilized they have to be in order to do so.
Sign Petition Urging Limbaugh’s Advertisers to Pull Their Support
Has Rush Limbaugh f-i-n-a-l-l-y gone too far with his “slut” comment? I think he’s been going too far for years so I gladly signed the petition over at the DailyKos asking his advertisers to pull their support for him.
Go here if you’re interesting in doing the same.
The Treat-Women-Like-Fourth-Class-Citizens Amendment Fails in the Senate
By a very narrow margin, the “Blunt amendment” a/k/a the wingnut amendment that would have allowed women’s bosses to determine what kind of health insurance coverage they had, failed today in the U.S. Senate:
Sen. Roy Blunt
The Senate on Thursday defeated a GOP-backed bid to allow employers to opt out of provisions of Obamacare that they found morally objectionable, including the contraception mandate. The vote to table the so-called Blunt amendment fell mostly along party lines, 51-48.
Although, as Politico notes, a handful of Democrats did break ranks: Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Ben Nelson of Nebraska.
“Democrats” Manchin and Casey have got to go. Thankfully, Nelson is retiring.
When Do “Girls” Get to Be Women?
I’m making dinner while simultaneously watching the Oscar “Red Carpet” show on the E! News channel. A panel of women, including Guiliana Rancic and Kelly Osbourne, are critiquing the dresses the female attendees are wearing, and they’re referring to people like Sandra Bullock as “girls.”
Sandra Bullock is 47-years-old for God’s sake. When does a female human being graduate from girlhood to womanhood around here? Can you imagine a 47-year-old male being called a boy?
Image via flickr user: tenfiftytwo
This phenomenon is out of control. I’ve even heard 16 and 17-year-old boys referred to as men. But 40-something females are still girls?
REALLY?!
I Hear Republicans Screaming At Their Rear-View Mirror
“The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
Albert Einstein
Maryland Senate Approves Same-Sex Marriage Bill
“Bob’s For Jobs?”
This would be Virginia Governor Bob — let’s rape women with an ultrasound machine — McDonnell’s campaign slogan:
VA Gov. Bob McDonnell Gives a Little Bit (But Not Much) on Ultrasound Rape Bill
The media is reporting that Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell (R) has “backtracked” on the ultrasound rape bill he and his religious fanatic friends tried to sneak through the legislature there.
Here the a statement he issued today, which again, the media is referring to as “backtracking.” (Note the parts I’ve bolded.) Would you call this “backtracking?”
Statement of Governor Bob McDonnell on SB 484
RICHMOND - Governor Bob McDonnell issued the following statement today regarding SB 484, a bill before the General Assembly that would require an ultrasound prior to an abortion being performed.
“I am pro-life. I believe deeply in the sanctity of innocent human life and believe governments have a duty to protect human life. The more our society embraces a culture of life for all people, the better country we will have. Over the course of my 20-year career in elected office, I have been glad to play a leading role in putting in place common-sense policies that protect and defend innocent human life in the Commonwealth. One of those bills was Virginia’s informed consent statute, of which I was the chief patron in the House of Delegates, finally seeing its passage in 2001. This session, the General Assembly is now considering amending this informed consent statute to include a requirement that any woman seeking an abortion receive an ultrasound in order to establish the gestational age for appropriate medical purposes, and to offer a woman the opportunity to voluntarily review that ultrasound prior to giving her legal informed consent to abortion.
Over the past days I have discussed the specific language of the proposed legislation with other governors, physicians, attorneys, legislators, advocacy groups, and citizens. It is apparent that several amendments to the proposed legislation are needed to address various medical and legal issues which have arisen. It is clear that in the majority of cases, a routine external, transabdominal ultrasound is sufficient to meet the bill’s stated purpose, that is, to determine gestational age. I have come to understand that the medical practice and standard of care currently guide physicians to use other procedures to find the gestational age of the child, when abdominal ultrasounds cannot do so. Determining gestational age is essential for legal reasons, to know the trimester of the pregnancy in order to comply with the law, and for medical reasons as well.
Thus, having looked at the current proposal, I believe there is no need to direct by statute that further invasive ultrasound procedures be done. Mandating an invasive procedure in order to give informed consent is not a proper role for the state. No person should be directed to undergo an invasive procedure by the state, without their consent, as a precondition to another medical procedure.
For this reason, I have recommended to the General Assembly a series of amendments to this bill. I am requesting that the General Assembly amend this bill to explicitly state that no woman in Virginia will have to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound involuntarily. I am asking the General Assembly to state in this legislation that only a transabdominal, or external, ultrasound will be required to satisfy the requirements to determine gestational age. Should a doctor determine that another form of ultrasound may be necessary to provide the necessary images and information that will be an issue for the doctor and the patient. The government will have no role in that medical decision.
So yes, Governor McDonald is “backtracking” on “mandating an invasive procedure” but he isn’t “backtracking” on mandating procedures, i.e., he is “asking” the General Assembly to change the legislation to state that “only a transabdominal, or external, ultrasound will be required…” In other words, the Governor is still putting the government into the exam room and between a woman and her doctor.
The government shouldn’t require a woman (or a man or a child) to have any procedures. Period.
Virginia Republicans Run Up Against Reality
When you live in the wingnut bubble, i.e., the only people you talk to are fellow wingnuts and the only radio and/or television you listen to or watch are fellow wingnuts, you run into problems when the things you do affect those who live outside of that bubble. And that, my friends, is what’s happening to the crazies in Virginia:
In the face of widespread criticism, Republican state lawmakers delayed a vote again today on a bill that would require women to undergo an [invasive] ultrasound before having an abortion.
SB484, sponsored by Sen. Jill Vogel, R-Fauquier County, was one of the targets of two protest rallies on the State Capital grounds that drew nearly 1,000 women on Monday. Republican efforts to restrict insurance coverage of contraception and abortion rights have been lampooned by commentators, including a skit on Saturday Night Live.
Some legislators suggested on Tuesday that they may attempt to soften [the invasive]ultrasound legislation. Two legislators — one a conservative Republican — speaking on the condition of anonymity, said one idea officials have discussed is making the [invasive] ultrasound optional rather than mandatory.
If you’re unfamiliar with the GOP sanctioned “small” government rape-with-what-amounts-to-a-dildo-bill, go here for more.
So, people in Virginia are pissed and Republicans are caught off guard. Gosh. Imagine that.
UPDATE: I just saw Kaye Korey (D), a Delegate to the Virginia House of Delegates (the name for their state legislature) on PoliticsNation on MSNBC. She said this is a blatant act of “moral arrogance” but that Republicans aren’t really backing down. She said they’re just waiting for the “media to focus on something else” before they sign this bill into law.
So, one guess as to what I’m going to do.
