Tag: pro choice

VA Gov is backing down?
ecthompsonmd February 22, 2012

Well, this is interesting. Virginia governor Bob McDonnell, graduate of Regent University who wrote a great thesis about some of the craziest right-wing religious ideology ever placed on paper, has now started to soften his stance on transvaginal ultrasounds (rape) before abortions. From TPM: Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) is backing off of the controversial legislation that would require women to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound before getting an abortion, recommending that the legislature put in amendments to soften the bill and only require a transabdominal ultrasound instead. “Mandating an invasive procedure in order to give informed consent is not a proper

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Anti-choice Dems need a gift from us, don't they?
ecthompsonmd November 14, 2009

From C&L: Blue America is teaming up with Working Assets, the folks behind CREDO Mobile and CREDO Action in a project we think you’ll like. We’re urging you to sign a petition to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid regarding the 20 formerly pro-choice men who voted for the virulently anti-choice Stupak Amendment last Saturday. Working Assets will send one of them a coat hanger for each signature. Here’s the text: We know what happens when women are denied access to reproductive health care including abortion. And we can’t go back to an era of coat hangers and back alley abortions. Reconsider your

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Women, please step to the back of the bus. "Thanks," says Ohio state representative!
ecthompsonmd July 23, 2009

I continue to be amazed at how some in our society beleive that women are no more than birthing machines. From TP: State Rep. John Adams (R-OH) has re-introduced radical legislation that would prevent a woman from having an abortion until she gets written consent from the biological father. As proposed, the bill triggers criminal penalties against women for “providing a false biological father.” Adams says the “first-degree misdemeanor” would be punishable with up to “six months” in jail and a “$1,000 fine.” Labeled by Adams as a “father’s right bill,” the lawmaker would give men the final say on abortion

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