mikey_the_rat

It's ok if the baby bill has emerged from the birth canal.

We still have to nail them on the ultrasound requirement for abortion, though -- the transvaginal part has been removed, but we're not out of the woods yet!


rocktivity

My word, the Virginia GOP got hold of its senses. Maybe Pat Robertson will end up quitting this state in protest and never come back...

can get a VP nod.

This is by no means over with, just shelved for the time being.

I have graphic, vicious thoughts of invasive procedures they clearly require.

Repubs count on abortion to be an issue that, obviously, will never be ended. It keeps their followers fired up, money keeps coming in, and provides them with the false image of being the Party of GOD.

Good. He can lose with whatever loon they pic to run.

They tried to sneak this by in a swing state, and got slapped down hard.

A major victory for pro-choice groups, women's groups, and all people in the Commonwealth.

Great news!

so some believe that life starts at conception, some believe that life starts with the first breath. Therefore, if you make abortion illegal and I believe that life starts with the first breath then you are denying me my freedom of religion rights. I would love to find some lawyer that would be willing to take on the issue of having an abortion as a freedom of religion issue.

please please please campaign to de-elect anyone who sponsored/supported this pathetic bill. look to Wisconsin for inspiration.

to protest this and the vaginal probe-asound bill. Let's hope we're making a difference.

I would be owed the Child Tax credit for 2008, as my daughter was concieved in december of that year. conversley, what if there was a misscarrage? I would still get the tax credit for 2008 and 2009 right? after all, she was a person for a few months...

These idiots don't know the can of worms they are trying to open.

pregnant women should FLOCK to insurance offices and demand a life insurance policy for their "person." Then, when they're denied, they should complain to the state insurance commission and the Attorney General. Why, in my state, it's Ken Cuccinelli - he'd eat his underwear trying to figure out how to side with insurance companies, since he's anti-choice himself.

If I had done that with the two pregnancies/three persons I miscarried, I could have paid for the education of my three REAL persons with the insurance money. Unfortunately, I'm past the point of being able to participate in the mad rush to insure the unborn.

File that on the back burner, in case we are ever unfortunate enough to need it.

And it won't matter if you are never positive, because for all you know, the egg got fertalized, but never managed to attach in the uterous. What a tragity, That will be $1M please. See you next month.

Mainly because I can see the numbnut legislators in my state (Indiana) trying to pull this same kind of sick shit at some point during one of their legislative sessions.

I am especially sickened at the thought of the transvaginal ultrasounds before a woman can exercise her right to an abortion. I have undergone that heinous procedure twice in my life, and "medical rape" is a polite term for what it is, even when there is a legitimate reason for doing it. This is nothing more than punitive and sadistic retribution made legal. Depending on the circumstance, I don't think "torture" is too strong a word for this.

Last night while driving home, I was listening to NPR, who interviewed some right-to-lifer (a woman) who said that if a woman saw the fetus during this procedure she might change her mindand heart about having an abortion. I nearly went off the road. Oh really? Tell me -- how open to **anything** would THIS right-to-lifer be if she has a dildo shoved up her vagina to her cervix, which the technician would then guide like a plumber's snake as it it bumps up against every vital part of the female anatomy? (Oh, and the woman will also have to insert and then hold the dildo herself until it's correctly in position, which makes it kind of like SELF-rape.)

Those who think this procedure will be an effective strategy in the abortion debate have no idea what the hell they're talking about, and a part of me has to wonder if they don't want to again drive abortions underground, where women will die.

Pro-lifers make me sick. They seem to think that women undergo abortions on a whim and a lark, with no thought behind it, only selfishness, so they must be punished. I only hope that pushing this kind of legislation backfires in their faces big time, and discredits and cripples their movement for decades to come.

They only care about the so-called baby; they completely ignore the fact that there's a woman involved, too.

I'm tired of being treated like my humanity ends right after an egg gets fertilized. My life no longer matters to these people. One told me that if a pregnancy is going to kill the mother, then so be it. No abortions ever, no matter what. Excuse me? You're willing to sentence a woman to death for your screwed-up moral values???

Those people make me so incredibly angry.

They'll try sneaking it out when they think women aren't looking.

Problem is, we've been alerted and we're smarter than they are.

Lets be real. This country is run by the elite. They make their own rules. They do not care about any of this christian taliban crap. Well, they care about it in so far as it diverts the attention away from them (THE REAL PROBLEM).
Please anyone, if you are an ex-pat in a place where it is stable and cheap, le me know. I want out. Our citizenry is too ignorant, greedy,lazy or a combination of all to bring real change to America. Look at Iran. A technologically advanced country, run by a theocratic, insane dictatorship. The majority of citizens want change, but until THEY do it, it will never happen.
Does that sound familiar?
I do not have many years left. I would like to enjoy those in relative sanity and freedom. I want out.