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Previously on Senseless Acts Of Bloggery:
UPDATE: The bill has been abandoned.
Allegedly due to national ridicule on SNL.
(And the Daily Show too, but somehow I don’t think Republicans at any level of govt base their votes on what Jon Stewart says – if only because he’s preaching to the choir and his ratings are lower than SNL’s because he’s on cable.)
Then again, how many of them really care if SNL makes fun of them? If that was the criteria for supporting or not supporting controversial laws, the GOP would never get any laws passed. And as states like Wisconsin and Arizona know, they be passing all kinds of laws.
Anyway, VA governor Bob McDonnell – who very much wanted to sign the Transvaginal State Rape bill – claims he backed away from the bill because he consulted with doctors and lawyers including the state’s attorney general before concluding the bill would likely face constitutional challenges.
Of course, if you believe the people at Slate, that was sort of the whole point.
And so much for that conspiracy theory.
Anyway, I’m sure the fact that SNL was making fun of his party is a coincidence – as is the fact that he’s rumored to be a potential VP candidate for whoever wins the GOP nomination. Because when you run for VP, no one cares if you advocate state-raping pregnant women with transvaginal wands in the hopes that it might shame them into having the baby.
Back to the drawing board,
This is dF
… the Republican-controlled Virginia Legislature has passed a bill that would require a woman who wants to get an abortion to have an ultrasound done first – which, in most cases, will mean a transvaginal procedure, in which a probe is inserted into the vagina, and then moved around until an ultrasound image is produced. Under the law, the woman has no option to refuse this procedure, so consent is irrelevant. She does, however, have the option of not getting an abortion.
See what they did there?
UPDATE: The bill has been abandoned.
Allegedly due to national ridicule on SNL.
(And the Daily Show too, but somehow I don’t think Republicans at any level of govt base their votes on what Jon Stewart says – if only because he’s preaching to the choir and his ratings are lower than SNL’s because he’s on cable.)
Then again, how many of them really care if SNL makes fun of them? If that was the criteria for supporting or not supporting controversial laws, the GOP would never get any laws passed. And as states like Wisconsin and Arizona know, they be passing all kinds of laws.
Anyway, VA governor Bob McDonnell – who very much wanted to sign the Transvaginal State Rape bill – claims he backed away from the bill because he consulted with doctors and lawyers including the state’s attorney general before concluding the bill would likely face constitutional challenges.
Of course, if you believe the people at Slate, that was sort of the whole point.
And so much for that conspiracy theory.
Anyway, I’m sure the fact that SNL was making fun of his party is a coincidence – as is the fact that he’s rumored to be a potential VP candidate for whoever wins the GOP nomination. Because when you run for VP, no one cares if you advocate state-raping pregnant women with transvaginal wands in the hopes that it might shame them into having the baby.
Back to the drawing board,
This is dF
