Thursday, February 23, 2012
"Try to envision the mindset of a legislator who would enact a bill the sole purpose of which is to mandate the forcible, medically unnecessary invasion of a woman’s vagina as the price — the attempt at forced shame — for terminating a pregnancy. Whatever a person’s views on abortion might be, this is an assault of a different order. It is one thing to believe that abortion should be restricted; it is quite another to use the law to impose humiliation and invasion upon women who seek out the procedure. A person cannot enact such a law without embracing a willful disregard for the personhood and dignity of all women."
The Republican War on Women: Invading the Vagina in Virginia (via abaldwin360)