{"id":5067,"date":"2012-02-17T09:03:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T15:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=2379"},"modified":"2012-02-17T09:03:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T15:03:24","slug":"virginia-legislature-passes-abusive-anti-abortion-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/17\/virginia-legislature-passes-abusive-anti-abortion-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Legislature Passes Abusive Anti-Abortion Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/double_x\/doublex\/2012\/02\/virginia_ultrasound_law_women_who_want_an_abortion_will_be_forcibly_penetrated_for_no_medical_reason.html\">Slate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This week, the Virginia state Legislature passed a bill that would require women to have an ultrasound before they may have an abortion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since the vast majority of abortions happen early in pregnancy, the procedure will usually require vaginal penetration with a machine, as opposed to the nice non-invasive goop-on-the-stomach method of ultrasound.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What\u2019s more, a provision of the law that has received almost no media attention would ensure that a certification by the doctor that the patient either did or didn\u2019t \u201cavail herself of the opportunity\u201d to view the ultrasound or listen to the fetal heartbeat will go into the woman\u2019s medical record. Whether she wants it there or not. I guess they were all out of scarlet letters in Richmond.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nSouthern Man, you&#8217;ve got to hand your power over to someone else because you&#8217;re doing it wrong.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kVRxdPWV3RM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Slate: This week, the Virginia state Legislature passed a bill that would require women to have an ultrasound before they may have an abortion. Since the vast majority of abortions happen early in pregnancy, the procedure will usually require vaginal penetration with a machine, as opposed to the nice non-invasive goop-on-the-stomach method of ultrasound. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/17\/virginia-legislature-passes-abusive-anti-abortion-law\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Virginia Legislature Passes Abusive Anti-Abortion Law<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[286],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1jJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}