The first of the three pro-abortion bills was proposed by Senator Mamie Locke (D-VA 2). Senate Bill 733 would have repealed mandatory ultrasounds prior to an abortion.[read_more] Her faulty logic claimed that ultrasounds were unnecessary because women have already made up their minds to have an abortion. The reality is, 78% of women who view the ultrasound change their mind and decide not to have an abortion which is why Planned Parenthood does not allow pregnant women to see their ultrasounds. (Liberals just hate when women decide to not kill their babies.) Locke’s bill was defeated in a vote by an Education and Health Committee vote of 8-7.
Next Jennifer Wexton (D- VA 33) proposed SB 920, would have removed the 24 hour wait time between the ultrasound and the abortion procedure. Wexton objects to women having to wait 1 day before making this important, life altering, decision. This bill was also defeated in committee by a vote of 9 to 6.
The last pro abortion bill, Senate Bill 769, was presented by Sen. A. Donald McEachin (D- VA 9). It would have repealed the ban on abortion coverage under Virginia’s state health exchanges. Like the other two bills, it failed to make it out of committee by a vote of 8 to 7.
NARAL and Governor McAuliffe were 0 for 3 today on these pro-abortion bills and they are quite upset about it. NARAL’s response here.
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I think abortion is murder of an unborn child. Years ago my wayward younger sister had several abortions and my brother’s wife had an abortion before she married my brother. Now, they both deeply regret those decisions to kill their unborn children. My wife and I are very active in the pro-life movement and my wife is an employee of the Alice Paul Group. Nonetheless, we will not eradicate abortion until we win hearts and minds. And many of those hearts and minds just happen to be liberal. I agree with David M on this. We catch more flies with honey. I like this blog very much, but it was wrong to write, “Liberals just hate….” I work with lots of liberals. Most of them are reasonable people, who simply are victims of overreliance on the mainstream media for their information, thus, they never really hear the conservative point of view. They will tune us out if we insult them.
Liberals do hate it when women keep their babies. So much for pro “choice.”
Abortion is state sanctioned murder. We’ve murdered 10s of millions of innocent children.
If liberals don’t like it, they can stop doing it.
That’s a real jerk thing to say. You’re an ass, Jeanine.
But, Bruce – that’s what it sounds like! Don’t let the woman see an ultrasound… don’t make her wait ONE DAY to make this life altering decision. Women should have the right to decide, but let’s be sure they have the right information. What is the downside??
If it’s not true, why do they work so hard to make sure women won’t change their minds and let their babies live?
Your premise lost all credibility when you lumped all “liberals” together.
As much as I like this site and your posts, Jeanine, I’ll agree with Bruce about that line about Liberals — I think it’s too general and hurts your argument.
I understand the urge to taunt and exaggerate — Lord knows conservatives are on the receiving end of it regularly, and only a minority in the media establishment are going to defend us from it.
But I think one of the dilemmas for us as conservatives is that the Left has made a virtue out of simply passing no judgements at all on certain harmful behavior, and on being “nice.” I bet more people would respond positively to your piece if you left the taunt out. And persuasion is what we are trying to do, I think.
It’s hard given all the betrayals and battering conservatives take — I was listening to Erick Erickson, the Red State guy, the other day and his nastiness turned even me off — but I frequently remind myself cheerful optimism and gentle humor is our best approach
Cheers,