For the past 24 hours or so, Virginia Republicans — e.g., self-annointed women’s health experts (particularly when it comes to “trans-vaginal” types of concerns) Sen. Ryan McDougle and Sen. Jeff McWaters — have been deleting comments off their Facebook walls like mad (hundreds in the case of McDougle). Unfortunately for them, sometimes they’re not fast enough:
Meanwhile, it looks like more and more and more websites are picking up on the story we broke yesterday, both here and at Daily Kos. It appears, in other words, that Virginia Republicans have knocked over a hornet’s nest with their state-mandated ultrasound garbage, and are now being chased around (in social media, also on the steps of the Virginia Capitol in Richmond) by (justifiably) outraged “hive members.” I’d almost feel sorry for them, if a) it weren’t such a serious assault on women’s rights; and b) if they hadn’t brought it on themselves 100%.
P.S. It looks like Sen. Steve Martin has also been “stung” a bit. See the “flip” for a screen capture of that exchange.
UPDATE: Another commenter adds the following to Steve Martin’s page.
Comfort yourselves by saying this is all put on by a professor or a university, but this is a response from women everywhere who are offended by your bills. It seems the truth is that lawmakers everywhere are waging a war, a HOLY war, against women, as they have been for some time. It is about suppression and control. And you’re getting “attacked” because something is wrong and YOU ARE A PART OF IT.
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