Holy Workout On Democracy

Abortion is legal- the law of the land. Republicans are against Public Mandates when it comes to ministering to the sick. However, they are FOR public mandates when it comes to ministering religious edicts disguised as laws, such as intrusive vaginal probes. Caught red-handed, the Religious Republican Leaders of Virginia, have gone politically Correct (a sin) and reversed themselves on employing medical devices invented to heal people – to rape women who seek an abortion.

Hitler’s doctors used medical devices to experiment on Jews, to test human thresholds of pain. Paul Weyrich and other Religious Fanatics employed abortion as a political tool because the Feds were going to take away the tax exemption of Bob Jones University for outlawing mixed-race couples on campus.

Now add the Koran burning by someone who knew it was wrong, but, didn’t think anyone would notice. The Governor of Virginia thought the same. He would just slide that plastic object into women who were already under great distress – to increase that distress! Jesus did the opposite because he owned a Divine Empathy – for sinners – and not the self-righteous!

Jon

Reporting from Washington—
Backing away from his support for a proposed law that would require women to submit to an invasive ultrasound before undergoing an abortion, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell on Wednesday asked the state Legislature to amend the bill to exclude the controversial requirement.

“Mandating an invasive procedure in order to give informed consent is not a proper role for the state,” McDonnell said in a statement. “No person should be directed to undergo an invasive procedure by the state, without their consent, as a precondition to another medical procedure.”

McDonnell, a rising star in the Republican Party, is widely considered a vice presidential contender.

The Republican-controlled General Assembly amended the bill to require external ultrasounds, but not the invasive ultrasounds that involve insertion of a wand into the vagina. That version of the bill passed the chamber by a vote of 65 to 32, and is headed to the Senate, where the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Jill Vogel, has said she’ll kill it, according to the Associated Press.

The bill quickly became a flash point in the current round of debate over women and reproduction. It not only enraged abortion rights activists like Planned Parenthood, but raised concerns that it was likely to anger centrist voters. Former Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, a Democrat running for U.S. Senate this fall, charged that Republicans in the General Assembly were turning Virginia into a national “laughingstock.”

“What’s happening in Richmond right now is bad for Virginia women, it’s bad for Virginia’s image, and it’s bad for Virginia’s businesses,” Kaine said Wednesday in a conference call with reporters, according to the Washington Post.

Comedian Jon Stewart mocked the bill Tuesday night in a segment on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.”

Noting that the bill was introduced by Republican Del. Kathy J. Byron, Stewart played footage of Byron from January 2011, in which she blasted state efforts to mandate the HPV vaccine.

“The substitution of our judgment for the judgment of parents is exactly the type of government intrusion into healthcare that America rejected at the polls last November,” Byron said then.

Stewart also played audio of McDonnell arguing that full-body pat-downs at TSA security checkpoints were “over the line with regard to … people’s concerns about privacy and their civil liberties.”

The bit was part of what has become a recurring segment mocking Republicans for their positions on women’s health issues, such as the earlier brouhaha over the Obama administration’s regulation to require Catholic hospitals and universities to include birth control as part of the preventive services in health insurance plans offered to their employees.

The administration later softened the rule to allow the benefit to be provided directly by insurers, but did not retreat from the White House position that insurance plans must provide contraceptives coverage to women, regardless of where they work.