nuggets in here...
Lawmakers who backed the bill, which passed the Senate and House last week, are undeterred by the fact that no medical necessity requires this nor by the likelihood that few of the 26,000 women who seek abortions in Virginia each year will want the procedure. Rather, they are jazzed at the idea that subjecting women to blatant coercion, coupled with the bill’s requirement that the test results be kept forever in women’s medical files, will generate sufficient duress to discourage abortions. Women who refuse to examine the ultrasound image will be made to sign a statement to that effect, which will also remain part of their medical records.
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This part(bolded) I find disturbing...
Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R), who has broken campaign promises to devise a sustainable fix to Virginia’s transportation funding crisis and another to fight for meaningful nonpartisan redistricting, is not so reticent when it comes to abortion. Through a spokesman, he says he will sign Ms. Vogel’s bill on the grounds that it provides “additional information” to women considering abortions. What “additional information” is that? That fetuses have developing limbs?
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