Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Yes, Virginia, there is a law protecting the rights of women...
So if Virginia passes the personhood/ anti-abortion/ vaginal probing crap, will they start stopping pregnant women at the state border to see if they are leaving the state to have an abortion? If they don't pee in a cup they can't travel out of state? Would they prosecute the woman if she comes back not pregnant? How far are they going into the land of Gilead?
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As I understand them, what that other State does is its own business, and if they want to pay for VA's abortions for them, then that's fine with them. You know, states' rights and all that.
Even apart from Handmaid's Tale... back in 1995, Sarah Weddington warned us in A Question of Choice that the battleground would be individual states, and now she is at least mostly right.
I no longer have any contacts in clinics, but back in the day, I cannot imagine any of the health professionals I knew at Planned Parenthood going along with a medically unnecessary invasive procedure. Maybe it's time for some open civil disobedience.
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I'm glad the silent protest had an impact... maybe the legislators are getting cold feet because they finally realized their political posturing has pissed off a large scary mob of angry women. I'm not holding my breath over whether this hesitation will last though. The GOP seems determined to drive themselves off the cliff.
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