Seriously, Virginia? Seriously?

[lagilman]

New state tourism slogan: "Virginia: Not for Lovers Any More." (unless you want the state up in your vagina, too)

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/02/17/427778/virginia-poised-to-enact-state-sponsored-rape-law-forcing-women-to-be-vaginally-probed-before-abortions/

Yeah, no thanks. State-mandated rape* to punish any woman who decides she doesn't want to be a baby-maker just then. Next person to say anything about Sharia Law coming to the US oh noes? Can explain how THIS got past the good folk of Virginia, first.



*as defined by Virginia's own laws.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Unspeakable.

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Seconded.

[jennielf.livejournal.com]

Between this and the "expert witness" panel of all men at that federal hearing on Birth Control legislation, I am seriously starting to get pissed off enough to think about running for office. argh.

Tracked down my state senator and delegate and wrote them a nasty note. Damnit, I thought I was over the majority of this kind of stupidity when we moved from Florida.

[lagilman]

Do it. Dooooo eeeeeeeet.

(I would be a TERRIBLE office holder. But I would be an excellent campaign worker.)

[mt-yvr.livejournal.com]

I don't see you as a terrible office holder. I see you more as Galadriel when offered the ring "terrible".

(snicker)

Aside from that mental image of you with actual lackeys... Oh. My. Lord. Really? Just... WHAT in h@ll is going on down there?

[lagilman]

As a race, when we get scared, we get mean.


A person who is not frightened has no need to strike out.




[and I would refuse the ring, I think. I think]

[mt-yvr.livejournal.com]

Oh I understand the scare = mean thing. Intimately. But on an individual basis. Some of the things I've been seeing on the news recently from the USA (oh, and here in Canada too, just to be clear), however? Are the kind of strange and baffling that I've never seen before with the kinds of numbers involved. People even suggesting this law, for instance, would've seemed over the top... that it made it to this point that it's up for consideration? What the HELL?

The disconnect for me is large. I am finding it almost to the point where I don't even get upset because I'm just... too baffled that anyone seriously is behind this kind of thing. In public.



And I dunno. I think I look good in Evil Overlord. A lil dark cloak (no capes!), bit of a flaming crown... minions.. It works for me. I think you'd rock it. :P

[lagilman]

Sacred & mean are most dangerous in packs. A single scared/mean person is a bully. A group of scared/mean people is a mob.


And you would totally rock the cloak. I prefer to look unassuming/be overlooked until I bite. :-)

[mt-yvr.livejournal.com]

But see, funnily enough the unassuming ones are the ones I always end up keeping an eye on.

(peer)

:P

[jmward14.livejournal.com]

"Sacred" is damned dangerous in packs, too.
Just don't get me started on what happens to the average education and IQ level as you go south from the Beltway on I 95. :-P

[gonzai55.livejournal.com]

Heh. In the bad law category, Maryland law prohibits me from running for or holding public office. Why? I'm an atheist. Yep, it's against the law in Maryland for an atheist to hold public office.

Not as ridiculous as the VA law, but not exactly sensible either.

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

Rather makes me not want to live here anymore. But then, if we moved, it would solve nothing. So, instead I'll make my voice heard by voting these repugnant asses out of office.

[jennielf.livejournal.com]

But what if (after a little digging) you find that it wasn't your actual rep that voted yes, it was all the other ones? And I can't vote the the other ones!!!

*sigh*

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

Then we spread the news of this bill and hope that others who CAN vote for those repugnant asses, vote them out of office.}:)

[jesskastar.livejournal.com]

I'm saddened and not surprised since insurance companies have gotten away with it. For example, the insurance required I get a transvaginal ultrasound by my surgeon, even though my GYN had one ordered previously and it was part of my file before they would even approve the laprascopy - which is the only accepted way to diagnose endometriosis.

So, have to have surgery to diagnose. Have to have transvaginal ultrasound by surgeon before can have surgery - even though adhesions and lesions from endometriosis don't show on any kind of ultrasound. And despite having one on file due to first ruling out cysts and fibroids.

I've long been of the opinion that insurance and government are in bed together to make life difficult and more expensive for the average Jane.

A comment I read somewhere rings so true to this sort of situation - where they are so determined to force women to have babies, and yet reduce opportunities for support for those women and children once they are born.

[seachanges.livejournal.com]

They really do want to turn the US into the Republic of Gilead, don't they.

[mtlawson.livejournal.com]

I think I know who needs a probe, and it's not the women specified in that bill.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

A woman tried to attach a bill that all men should have to get cardiac stress tests and prostate exams before getting Viagra, but naturally, nobody backed her up and it didn't go anywhere.