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VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS, always quick to condemn overreaching government intrusions into people’s lives, are themselves becoming the High Priests of the Nanny State. In driving a singularly obnoxious abortion measure through the state legislature — one that substitutes their own medical expertise for that of doctors — they are setting new standards for official arrogance and meddling.
The bill, sponsored by state Sen. Jill Holtzman Vogel, a Winchester Republican, is similar to ones that have become law in a half-dozen other states, including Alabama and Mississippi. It would require women seeking abortions in Virginia to first submit to an ultrasound, and pay for it, too.
Virginia GOP's abortion bill reeks of hypocrisy - The Washington Post
Seeded on Thu Feb 9, 2012 10:32 AM EST
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Ms. Vogel insists the bill’s requirement “is not invasive,” a statement of Olympian political disingenuousness. It is big government at its most loathsome, foisting the unnecessary upon the unwilling.
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#1 - Thu Feb 9, 2012 10:32 AM ESTWhat is the rationalization for requiring this? What is the reason given for requiring this added invasive procedure and expense? I couldn't get the article to come up; might be a script compatibility issue. How do they justify the requirement?
#2 - Thu Feb 9, 2012 12:09 PM ESTShame the whore for life.
Maybe Santorum is right and we should just go back to the "good old days" when women just died from back alley abortions leaving families to fend without them.
(I'd have screamed that but the vine intervenes.)
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