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Republicans now have complete control of Virginia. They control the House, the Senate and the Governor's Mansion. The next time you hear them complaining about Democrats remind them that they run the whole show. They can no longer complain and blame it on someone else. They must take responsibility. Will they lead the state into the future or return it to the 1940's and the last century?
One of their first acts is an attempt to outlaw birth control. The republican government wants to tell you when and how to get pregnant and how large to grow your family. This is the get the government out of your life they always talk about? I have trouble believing you knuckle dragging right wing sheep voted for these idiots to run your state.
We've covered the litany of so-called "personhood" measures—conferring legal rights on fertilzed eggs—that have popped up around the country since Mississippi voters defeated just that sort of effort last November. Now Virginia could become the first state in the country to actually pass personhood legislation.
On Tuesday, the Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill introduced by Delegate Bob Marshall (R-Prince William) by a 66-32 vote. The bill, like other "personhood" measures, would amend the definition of the word "person" under state law to include zygotes, thereby granting them legal rights.
The summary reads:
Provides that unborn children at every stage of development enjoy all the rights, privileges, and immunities available to other persons, citizens, and residents of the Commonwealth, subject only to the laws and constitutions of Virginia and the United States, precedents of the United States Supreme Court, and provisions to the contrary in the statutes of the Commonwealth.
It will be interesting to see what happens from here. The bill now must be cleared by the state senate to move forward. But earlier this month, a panel in the state senate rejected a bill that would have limited abortions to the first 20 weeks after conception. This latest bill would be far more restrictive, potentially prohibiting all abortions and likely some common types of oral contraception. Virginia's House of Delegates also recently passed a new law forcing women to undergo an ultrasound before having an abortion.
Passage of this latest bill in the House of Delegates makes Virginia "dangerously close to making Virginia the first state in the country to grant personhood rights to fertilized eggs," says Tarina Keene, the executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia. She noted that the state code mentions the word "person" 25,000 times, which would give this redefinition a broad reach into many aspects of the law. The measure now faces a vote.
The Republican-controlled House of Delegates voted 66-32 in favor of defining the word person under state law to include unborn children "from the moment of conception until birth at every stage of biological development."
The measure now heads to the Senate, which is evenly split between Republicans and Democrats but with Republican Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling wielding the tie-breaking vote.
Republican Delegate Bob Marshall, an abortion opponent who introduced the legislation, said the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in the United States would not have been rendered if Texas state law had regarded the unborn as a person "in the full sense." "So this is a first step, a necessary step, but it's not sufficient to directly challenge Roe," Marshall said
in a phone interview.
Virginia's approach differs from failed attempts to define a fertilized egg as a legal person in Colorado in 2008 and 2010 and in Mississippi in 2011.
Virginia's effort avoids involving a constitutional amendment like those states, instead seeking changes throughout the legal code, said Elizabeth Nash, public policy associate at the Washington-based Guttmacher Institute, which studies reproductive health issues.
But she said the intent is the same, with the measure ultimately aimed at banning abortion, contraception and infertility treatment.
"Should this bill become law, it could have a far-reaching impact on women's access to health care," Nash said.
"No state, as yet, has adopted anything like this.
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Rick Santorum has a long, colorful history of making bizarre, inflammatory and just plain ridiculous statements about all sorts of important issues.
Here is a rundown of some of Rick’s “greatest hits.”
"The reason Social Security is in big trouble is we don't have enough workers to support the retirees. A third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion."
- Rick Santorum, 3/29/11
“I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say ‘now we are going to decide who are people and who are not people’.”
- Rick Santorum on President Obama’s race and pro-choice beliefs, 1/19/2011
“…everything I’ve read shows that we would not have gotten this information as to who this man was if it had not been gotten information from people who were subject to enhanced interrogation. And so this idea that we didn’t ask that question while Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was being waterboarded, he [John McCain] doesn’t understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they’re broken, they become
cooperative. And that’s when we got this information. And one thing led to another, and led to another, and that’s how we ended up with bin Laden.”
- Rick Santorum saying that John McCain, who was tortured as a prisoner of war, doesn’t understand “enhanced interrogation”, 5/17/11
“A lesbian woman came up to me and said, ‘why are you denying me my right?’ I said, ‘well, because it’s not a right.’ It’s a privilege that society recognizes because society sees intrinsic value to that relationship over any other relationship.”
- Rick Santorum on gay adoption, 5/3/11
“Many women have told me, and surveys have shown, that they find it easier, more “professionally” gratifying, and certainly more socially affirming, to work outside the home than to give up their careers to take care of their children. Think about that for a moment…Here, we can thank the influence of radical feminism, one of the core philosophies of the village elders.”
–Blaming “radical feminism” for making women want to work outside the home. It Takes a Family, Pg. 95, July 2005.
“But unlike abortion today, in most states even the slaveholder did not have the unlimited right to kill his slave.”
–Comparing a woman’s right to choose to slavery. It Takes a Family, Pg. 241, July 2005.
“In far too many families with young children, both parents are working, when, if they really took an honest look at the budget, they might confess that both of them really don’t need to, or at least may not need to work as much as they do… And for some parents, the purported need to provide things for their children simply
provides a convenient rationalization for pursuing a gratifying career outside the home.”
–Questioning the needs and motives of families in which both parents work. It Takes A Family, Pg. 94, July
2005.
“The reason Social Security is in big trouble is we don’t have enough workers to support the retirees. A third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion.”
- Rick Santorum on how abortion is responsible for Social Security’s problems, 3/29/11
“I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say ‘now we are going to decide who are people and who are not people’.”
- Rick Santorum on President Obama’s race and pro-choice beliefs, 1/19/2011
“Is anyone saying same-sex couples can’t love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?”
- Rick Santorum comparing his love for his mother-in-law to the love that same-sex couples share, 5/22/2008
“I don’t think it works. I think it’s harmful to women, I think it’s harmful to our society to have a society that says that sex outside of marriage is something that should be encouraged or tolerated, particularly among the young. I think it has, as we’ve seen, very harmful long-term consequences for society. So birth control to
me enables that and I don’t think it’s a healthy thing for our country.”
–Saying that birth control is harmful to women, society and our country. CN8′s “Nitebeat with Barry Nolan”, July 28, 2005.
“The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong.”
–Arguing that poor, unwed mothers don’t really need college educations. It Takes a Family, Pg. 138, July 2005.
“Many women have told me, and surveys have shown, that they find it easier, more “professionally” gratifying, and certainly more socially affirming, to work outside the home than to give up their careers to take care of their children. Think about that for a moment…Here, we can thank the influence of radical feminism, one of the core philosophies of the village elders.”
–Blaming “radical feminism” for making women want to work outside the home. It Takes a Family, Pg. 95, July 2005.
“But unlike abortion today, in most states even the slaveholder did not have the unlimited right to kill his slave.”
–Comparing a woman’s right to choose to slavery. It Takes a Family, Pg. 241, July 2005.
“In far too many families with young children, both parents are working, when, if they really took an honest look at the budget, they might confess that both of them really don’t need to, or at least may not need to work as much as they do… And for some parents, the purported need to provide things for their children simply
provides a convenient rationalization for pursuing a gratifying career outside the home.”
–Questioning the needs and motives of families in which both parents work. It Takes A Family, Pg. 94, July 2005.
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