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“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.
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.
“I cannot sit quietly today and do nothing while this body decides what rights will be stripped away from my daughter and others in regard to their own health,” said Filler-Corn, D-Fairfax. “I do not want to see a day when the only option for women and men to obtain the contraception of their choice is to leave our state and go to (Washington,) D.C. or to Maryland.”
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Va. House passes “personhood” abortion bill (via heathicorn)
“These [anti-abortion] conservatives are all in favor of the unborn, they will do anything for the unborn - but once you’re born, you’re on your own! Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the unborn, but once you’re born they want nothing to do with you! If you’re pre-born you’re fine, if you’re pre-school, you’re fucked!”
- George Carlin, back in 1996
(via hanabi)