Mon Feb 20, 2012, 04:30 PM
babylonsister (154,629 posts)
Silent protest outside, Virginia House puts off ultrasound vote
http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/20/10459213-silent-protest-outside-virginia-house-puts-off-ultrasound-vote
Silent protest outside, Virginia House puts off ultrasound vote By Laura Conaway - Mon Feb 20, 2012 1:14 PM EST 
What appears to be a crowd of several hundred people gathered today at the Virginia state capitol. Standing silently in the cold, they lined the walkway used by the legislators who have been voting on -- and voting away -- women's rights in Virginia. From their Facebook page: The Capitol ground rules say that we cannot assemble, hold signs, chant, yell or protest. We think silence in the face of this struggle and their unconstitutional rules presents the strongest response to their assault on women. Please come out and stand up for our rights and for the rights of all women in VA to choose the best reproductive route for themselves. These people are used to signs, yelling, chanting etc. It is not new. They are not used to silently being stared at and having to look us in the eye. It gives us the power.
A new poll out today from the Christopher Newport University and the Richmond Times-Dispatch shows Virginia's Republican majority to the right of Virginians. About 55 percent of them say they don't like the measure that would require women seeking an abortion to first undergo a medically unnecessary transvaginal ultrasound. The Richmond paper reports the House was to vote on the bill today, but its patron chose instead to hold off for the day. 
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 Silent protest outside, Virginia House puts off ultrasound vote (Original post) |
babylonsister | Feb 2012 | OP |
| Demeter | Feb 2012 | #1 | |
| yellerpup | Feb 2012 | #2 | |
| woodsprite | Feb 2012 | #3 | |
| Brettongarcia | Feb 2012 | #42 | |
| woodsprite | Feb 2012 | #48 | |
| annabanana | Feb 2012 | #4 | |
| gratuitous | Feb 2012 | #14 | |
| HockeyMom | Feb 2012 | #5 | |
| OregonBlue | Feb 2012 | #6 | |
| babylonsister | Feb 2012 | #8 | |
| KamaAina | Feb 2012 | #12 | |
| RainDog | Feb 2012 | #30 | |
| justiceischeap | Feb 2012 | #39 | |
| emsimon33 | Feb 2012 | #7 | |
| CTyankee | Feb 2012 | #9 | |
| AlbertCat | Feb 2012 | #22 | |
| fizzgig | Feb 2012 | #32 | |
| CTyankee | Feb 2012 | #33 | |
| Lifelong Protester | Feb 2012 | #17 | |
| lark | Feb 2012 | #45 | |
| jwirr | Feb 2012 | #10 | |
| appal_jack | Feb 2012 | #11 | |
| marlakay | Feb 2012 | #13 | |
| AlbertCat | Feb 2012 | #23 | |
| The Last Democrat | Feb 2012 | #28 | |
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| UCmeNdc | Feb 2012 | #35 | |
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| Tx4obama | Feb 2012 | #19 | |
| Doctor_J | Feb 2012 | #49 | |
| sabrina 1 | Feb 2012 | #53 | |
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| lonestarnot | Feb 2012 | #24 | |
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Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 04:55 PM
yellerpup (11,659 posts)
2. I love the people who stand up to power.
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 05:01 PM
woodsprite (8,000 posts)
3. Hmmm, could someone who had the ultrasound
Response to woodsprite (Reply #3)
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 09:01 AM
42. In Texas, we're trying to have this inter-vaginal ultrasound defined as RAPE
Response to Brettongarcia (Reply #42)
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 05:07 PM
woodsprite (8,000 posts)
48. I wish you the best in getting that designation in TX.
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I just can't help but thinking there are a whole lot of pervert repubs getting off on the whole idea of forcing women to have this done.
I hated having to have them done, but it was a necessity in my case. We tried for 4 yrs. Thankfully, our successful, single embryo-transfer kidcicle is now 11 yrs old and just made honor roll for the 2nd marking period  |
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 05:06 PM
annabanana (52,161 posts)
4. "They are not used to silently being stared at "
Response to annabanana (Reply #4)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 07:36 PM
14. They'll remember it, and pass another law prohibiting it
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 05:25 PM
5. You don't this procedure to see an early embryo
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 06:11 PM
OregonBlue (5,395 posts)
6. Now lead story at Richmond Times Dispatch
Response to OregonBlue (Reply #6)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 06:32 PM
babylonsister (154,629 posts)
8. Great news! This needs lots of exposure. nt
Response to OregonBlue (Reply #6)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 07:19 PM
12. It's sponsored by a woman??!!
That's like a turkey sponsoring a resolution declaring Thanksgiving Day a holiday.  |
Response to KamaAina (Reply #12)
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 02:17 AM
30. Women led the early fight against equal rights in the 1970s
Response to KamaAina (Reply #12)
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 08:22 AM
39. She was probably asked to sponsor it so it appeared to have some female support n/t
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 06:13 PM
7. I wish I were there to stand with them!
Response to emsimon33 (Reply #7)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 06:42 PM
CTyankee (50,408 posts)
9. Me, to. I used to live there but wouldn't go back on a bet, except maybe for this.
Response to CTyankee (Reply #9)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 10:35 PM
AlbertCat (17,505 posts)
22. I used to live there but wouldn't go back on a bet,
Response to CTyankee (Reply #9)
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 03:13 AM
32. my husband is from there and wants to go back
Response to fizzgig (Reply #32)
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 04:16 AM
CTyankee (50,408 posts)
33. I lived there (suburbs of D.C.) during the ERA battle of the early 1980s, and the VA lege
Response to emsimon33 (Reply #7)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 09:37 PM
Lifelong Protester (7,497 posts)
17. I am so with you!
Response to emsimon33 (Reply #7)
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 02:03 PM
lark (8,080 posts)
45. All women are Virginians today
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This isn't about coeercing and raping just the women of VA, they want this right everywhere. RW'ers are at heart women haters because women represent life and sex and they hate that.
They want to return us to the middle ages where the church and state ruled everything and the peasants had no rights whatsoever. That's the real goal.   |
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 06:53 PM
10. Hopefully this one day delay will be time for the word to get out and bring even more people the
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 07:01 PM
11. k&r - These protestors are heroic. n/t
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 07:30 PM
13. Loudest voice is no voice sometimes
Response to marlakay (Reply #13)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 10:36 PM
AlbertCat (17,505 posts)
23. Loudest voice is no voice sometimes
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 08:51 PM
tblue37 (25,218 posts)
15. Remember this video of Chancellor Linda Katehi of UC Davis
Response to tblue37 (Reply #15)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 09:49 PM
titaniumsalute (3,732 posts)
20. Wow.,..how erie. That seems more powerful than yelling at people.
Response to tblue37 (Reply #15)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 11:33 PM
csziggy (23,736 posts)
26. Thank you for posting that - a great reminder of how effective silence can be
Response to tblue37 (Reply #15)
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 06:52 AM
UCmeNdc (4,919 posts)
35. Boy the silence is effective!
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 09:42 PM
underpants (128,474 posts)
18. Kicking this because I duped you
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 09:43 PM
19. POLL: 55% of Virginians OPPOSE requiring women to undergo ultrasound prior to abortion, 36% support
Response to Tx4obama (Reply #19)
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 11:00 PM
53. Maybe that helped to put the vote off also. Seeing the polls and then the protest
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 10:51 PM
lonestarnot (77,097 posts)
24. Well that's good.
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 11:47 PM
CaliforniaPeggy (122,851 posts)
27. An amazing and powerful action. I stand with them...n/t
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 02:08 AM
29. That's the stuff. Love these pictures.
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 02:45 AM
angrychair (4,433 posts)
31. HB1 and HB462 are vile
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 05:49 AM
Skittles (115,058 posts)
34. proud to be Rec # 100
Response to spicegal (Reply #36)
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 07:41 AM
dixiegrrrrl (51,621 posts)
37. When do they all come up for re-election????
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 08:23 AM
malaise (162,234 posts)
40. Great coverage from Rachel Maddow
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 08:26 AM
MADem (135,416 posts)
41. I love intelligent protest. Big K/R. nt
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 02:23 PM
JTFrog (14,274 posts)
47. Beautiful.
Response to Doctor_J (Reply #50)
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 10:50 PM
51. the legislature has delayed the vote
Response to Doctor_J (Reply #52)
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 11:49 PM
54. Rachel Maddow is major media and this was a story on her program
