The following videos (here and on the “flip”) are from last night’s NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia forum in Alexandria. The following videos are of NARAL Executive Director Tarina Keene and Virginia’s next Attorney General, State Senator Mark Herring (with a sterling 100% pro-choice record), blasting GOP Attorney General nominee Mark Obenshain’s 2009 proposed legislation to essentially criminalize miscarriages (forcing women to report them within 24 hours, have police come out to the woman’s home, take a report, and investigate the “evidence”).
As Keene put it, Obenshain’s bill would have made “every woman of reproductive age as a suspect.” Keene also reminds everyone that Obenshain’s “ridiculous” legislation was first introduced back in 2005 by Del. Cosgrove, who withdrew the bill after a tremendous backlash (including by fellow Virginia progressive blogger Maura Keaney). Apparently, Mark Obenshain – with his pathetic, ZERO rating on choice – never learns.
Sen. Herring added that what Obenshain (who “has a long record of anti-choice legislation”) did with the miscarriage bill was “fundamentally wrong,” and that “with him as Attorney General, you could expect a lot more of that and we can’t let that happen.” So true.
P.S. It was also good seeing Senator Adam Ebbin and former Senator Mary Margaret Whipple there last night.
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