Topic: Va. House passes "personhood" abortion bill | |
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RICHMOND, Va. - A Republican supermajority has muscled two of the most restrictive anti-abortion bills in years through the Virginia House, including one that would all but outlaw the procedure in the state by declaring that the rights of persons apply from the moment sperm and egg unite.
The bills passed over bitter yet futile objections from Democrats. And one GOP delegate caused the House to ripple when he said most abortions come as "matters of lifestyle convenience." Del. Bob Marshall's House Bill 1 on personhood at conception passed on a 66-32 vote. And on a 63-36 vote, the House passed a bill that requires women to have a "transvaginal ultrasound" before undergoing abortions. Opponents said the bills were unprecedented intrusions into the prerogatives and decisions not just of pregnant women but of women trying to avoid conceiving. "The General Assembly is dangerously close to making Virginia the first state in the country to grant personhood rights to fertilized eggs," said Tarina Keene of NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia. Marshall's bill for years had passed the conservative House only to bog down and die in a moderate Senate. This time, it stands to survive a Senate under new conservative control after last fall's election stripped the Democrats of power. Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell, a socially conservative Roman Catholic, has said he will sign the ultrasound bill, but has taken no position on Marshall's personhood bill, said his spokesman J. Tucker Martin. The ultrasound legislation would constitute an unprecedented government mandate to insert vaginal ultrasonic probes into women as part of a state-ordered effort to dissuade them from terminating pregnancies, legislative opponents noted. http://m.cbsnews.com/fullstory.rbml?feed_id=1&catid=57378006&videofeed=37 |
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Edited by
msharmony
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Tue 02/14/12 11:43 PM
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dont they insert things to perform a abortion?
it should be interesting.... they said allowing homosexuals to be open in the military wouldnt make a difference perhaps we will find that cutting back on convenience and accessibility to abortions wont be detrimental either,,,, ..time will tell |
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I hate Christians almost as much as I hate liberals. |
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really gone phreaking overboard on that one!
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Va. women will just go to another state....
A group of male lawmakers discussing and making decisions concerning a woman body. pffffft **** them! |
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Va. women will just go to another state.... A group of male lawmakers discussing and making decisions concerning a woman body. pffffft **** them! It could make all kinds of crimes out of innocent people. |
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Edited by
RKISIT
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Wed 02/15/12 08:15 PM
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I hate Christians almost as much as I hate liberals. |
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Thou shalt laugh at the hypocrisy of thou shalt not kill. RKISIT 13:69
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