Virginia's new abortion law: 'State-sanctioned rape'?

You anti abortion fools really don't care about "the child". You want to force all these women to maintain the pregnancy and deliver a child to satisfy your misguided religious fervor. BUT....that's where your interest and concern end. If the woman has no visible means of support, who is going to pay to raise that child that you forced her to have? NOT YOU!!!! You do not support welfare or any government programs for these women, there are no laws to force the father to support the child, so what happens to the child? It gets stuck in a bad situation, with many bad outcomes. Adoption? If the woman truly feels so emotionally traumatized by hearing her child's heartbeat on ultrasound, and decides to carry to term, she won't give it up for adoption! Will you force that too? Where does the money come from to pay for all the uninsured and underinsured women to get the ultrasounds and the delivery room costs? NOT FROM YOU!!!! You are going to have to get a father support law passed. OK, who pays for the paternity tests? NOT YOU!!!! Who pays for the jail time when the underemployed/unemployed Dad can't pay? NOT YOU!!!! Your motto should be; "Spit the kid out and you're on your own! Praise God!"

And oh, that's really some "small and non-intrusive government" you got going there, Republicans. They'd never dream of doing an equivalent kind of thing to men. Good Heavens, that would be, well, too unthinkably intrusive for words! Rotten hypocrites.

If 55% of the citizens of Virginia are opposed to this bill, it begs the question of who they voted for in the last election.

This sounds like one of those unconstitutional mandates that I've read so much about.

He might as well sign the Bill, provided its written on toilet paper. Because it will end up in the toilet. NO government agency has the right to even require a blood test or DNA sample without probable cause AND a court order. This goes even farther; therefore, nowhere on review!

"Fifty-five percent of Virginians oppose the bill and 36 percent support it."

So much for politicians doing the will of the people. They are promoting their own personal agendas. Period.

It seems simple. If I put ANYTHING into a woman's vagina as part of a quid pro quo, or by force, or in any other way that she did not approve of, would I be subject to possible prosecution for a sexual crime? Yes! If I told a man that before he could have a prescription for Viagra, that he had to get a prostate exam that wasn't medically necessary, simply because I thought boner pills were immoral and I wanted to dissuade men from buying them, would he be angry? YES!!!!!

So, if human life begins at conception, and the fertilized egg is endowed with an immortal soul, then what happens when the embryos of two fraternal twins merge together? (Tetragametic chimerism, which is rare, does occur naturally, sometimes producing a baby that looks and acts and develops completely normally but has two different sets of DNA in different parts of its body. Look up Lydia Fairchild and Karen Keegan.) Does this person have two souls?

I wish Tina Korbe of the aptly named "Hot Air' would share with us how this conservative big government bill in any way constitutes "less government" and "more personal freedom."

Abort conservatives and their radical right-wing social engineering agenda in November.

Virginia will find itself bankrupt from lawsuits, thanks to this Medieval law. And I don't think for a minute that this disgusting rule wasn't deliberately put there for the sole purpose of shaming and humiliating women for wanting an abortion. "Information" indeed. Nonsense.

Once again the GOP attempts to stretch their Jesus nose all the way from Washington D.C. into the private lives and concerns of their employers (US)!

This will be struck down by the SCOTUS, even conservative as they are. Requiring an invasion of her sexual organs before a woman can exercise her legal rights? Really? I propose a sonogram rammed up the Gov.'s butt before he exercises his rights!

Not only is it rape...but the women have been also denied their civil rights...abortion is legal, and they are doing nothing wrong. You cannot criminilize some thing that is legal

And here we are again, the conservative branch imposing their "smaller government" on our personal rights. Also, prompting women to have children that they won't love or can't afford. Butt out, already.

Invasion of privacy .... if I don't want a sonogram, I shouldn't be forced to have one.

Sickening. Absolutely obscene state sanctioned rape. How much more punishment does a woman have to go through to satisfy these sanctimonious #$%$

Tina Korbe is a total idiot, and a dangerous person.

By saying that these transvaginal probes are not in any way sexual, she is implying that rape IS in some way sexual.

She is completely ignorant. Rape is never about sex it is always about power.

And she thinks that being forced to have a probe inserted in your hoo-ha against your will for no good reason won't cause emotional trauma???!!!! What an idiot.

Veela, darling, leave us women who believe in choice alone, would you? You sound like the nuns who delivered my mother's fourth kid and told her to stop moaning for heck it couldn't hurt that much, could it? And unless you have been raped what would you know about a procedure in which you have something stuck into your vagina against your will. What makes you want to defend decisions behind which are basically only males trying to tell society's women and men where our places are? If you are happy where you are, great, but don't take the happiness of women away who disagree with you.

Virginians: this is what you get for electing a Republican Governor and a Republican majority in your law-making bodies. Draw your conclusions!

"It's not as if "an ultrasound is in any way sexual."
Rape isn't about the sex, it's about power of one person over another. And this law is about POWER of the GOVERNMENT over a women's body!
STATE SANCTIONED RAPE!
THIS is the definition of a government that is too big and too invasive into individuals lives!