about Virginia's crazy new laws - how can I protest?

[Anonymous]

I'm talking about the vaginal prob before aborting and the personhood law in VA. I don't have time to to do the homework on this. Can someone sum up for me how I can get involved with the protest? online petition? public demonstration? letter writing? Tell me where to click, to whom to mail a letter, where to donate, and when to show up for a demonstration. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Hi PP, I am right there with you and I've been following this closely all week. So far, this is the only official online petition I've seen:

http://www.signon.org/sign/stop-the-war-on-women-1?source=homepage

I've also been writing emails to the governor every day this week via his website:

http://www.governor.virginia.gov/Contact.cfm

I will post back as I learn more about what we can do to keep VA from going back to the dark ages. Spread the word. And THANK YOU!!!

[Anonymous]

Can someone post the bill or law or amendment or whatever it is so we all know exactly what it is we're fighting about?

[Anonymous]

The bill:
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=121&typ=bil&val=hb1

I wrote an email to Bob McDonnell an email through this site:

http://www.governor.virginia.gov/

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

send an email to all of the republican delegates urging them not to support the bill -- they are supposed to vote on it today (2/21) when they convene at noon. here are all of their email addresses in one handy list:

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[Anonymous]

move to maryland in protest

[Anonymous]

there are signs things might be changing... http://hamptonroads.com/2012/02/lawmakers-hint-changes-abortion-ultrasound-bill

KEEP UP THE PRESSURE! email the delegates, just copy the list I pasted above and send them all a note. sign petitions. talk to your friends and neighbors, get them to be active on this too. if for no other reason, do you really want VA to become (even more of) a laughingstock??? which it will, if this legislation passes.

[Anonymous]

The legislature has pushed this back again to tomorrow.

Email or call the Governor's office

Email or call each Republican legislator

Email or call the makers of ALL birth control products. These are BIG drug companies about to lose an entire state worth of customers. Tell them to get their lobbyists to Richmond post haste. Nobody cares about what women think, but they might care about job loss and associated loss of commerce if birth control isn't available here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The legislature has pushed this back again to tomorrow.

Email or call the Governor's office

Email or call each Republican legislator

Email or call the makers of ALL birth control products. These are BIG drug companies about to lose an entire state worth of customers. Tell them to get their lobbyists to Richmond post haste. Nobody cares about what women think, but they might care about job loss and associated loss of commerce if birth control isn't available here.

Resident of MD here, so maybe I haven't followed this as closely as I thought I was- how are drug companies going to lose all the VA customers? Isn't this about the vaginal ultrasound? Did I miss something? Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Or you can stop your feet and say I'm not going to take it anymore! I should be allowed to kill my babies without any government intrusion!! Like an NRA member wants his guns.

[Anonymous]

Thursday, February 23 is a day of action. I signed up with Planned Parenthood to make calls, but there are a bunch of things you can do. Here is the link for the NoVA actions:
http://www.ppaction.org/site/Calendar/2112839955?view=Detail&id=101974

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:move to maryland in protest

Yup. In 20 years, VA will join the rest of the backwards southern states like MIssissippi and Oklahoma that pander to the worst and least educated element in American society.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:send an email to all of the republican delegates urging them not to support the bill -- they are supposed to vote on it today (2/21) when they convene at noon. here are all of their email addresses in one handy list:

I wrote to the list. Here is the response I got from one delegate:


First, I think you have a misunderstanding of what HB 1 does. At this time the only effect of HB 1 is to create a tort to allow parents of an unborn child killed as the result of an assault or accident involving negligence (such as a drunk driver hitting a vehicle with a pregnant mother inside) to file a wrongful death suit for that child. The legislation which is almost identical to a 26 year old Missouri statute will have no effect on abortion, contraception or assisted conception. The Missouri statute was upheld as Constitutional by the Supreme Court specifically because language in the bill restricts what its effects are based on Supreme Court Cases including Roe v. Wade and Griswold v. Connecticut (affirming the lawfulness of contraception). In addition HB 1 specifically exempts assisted conception such as IVF in section 7 of the bill. If Roe v. Wade were to be overturned by the Supreme Court HB 1 would allow Virginia to consider changing its abortion laws but until and unless that happens the only effect is the tort I outlined above.

Secondly, HB 462, is not my legislation though I did vote in favor of it. It is sponsored by Delegate Kathy Byron.

The issue is one of women's safety. HB 462 will add ultrasound to the informed consent requirements in Virginia. Planned Parenthood requires ultrasound to date pregnancy because it is the standard of care to ensure the correct procedure is done. For example if a woman has an ectopic pregnancy or is further along in her pregnancy that she first thought she cannot be given RU-486 because it would be life threatening. Below is a quote from a Planned Parenthood hotline with regard to their requirements for an abortion procedure. All abortions require an ultrasound and a pill abortion requires two trans vaginal ultrasounds, one before the pill is given and one later. Consent for the ultrasound is required to obtain an abortion. As a result, this legislation would not require anything more invasive that what is already done but would only require that all other clinics meet this same standard of care and that the woman be offered the opportunity to view the ultrasound.

Sincerely,

Delegate Bob Marshall

[Anonymous]

Good grief! The Governor and the woman who wrote and brought this bill, I recommend getting your head examined. It's unbelievable how the good people of Virginia elected you people. If you have anothing better to do and can't think of any way to improve our lives, go out and sweep your streets, pick up trashes, be useful!