[TW: Rape] Now because the majority of abortions are performed in the first trimester, if you’re going to get an ultrasound image, as the Virginia law requires, the law states, basically, that any woman seeking to have a legal procedure known as an abortion, whether she wants to or not, first lay back in a chair, spread her legs, (put her) feet in stirrups, and have an eight- to ten-inch wand put inside her — even if the woman in question is pregnant as the result of a rape.
I don’t really have a joke here. I just thought I’d tell you.
JON STEWART, on Virginia’s inhumane, inhuman and shameful “personhood” law that requires women wanting to get an abortion to, in essence, be subject to rape, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
Obviously I agree that this bill is fucked up, but it isn’t the personhood bill. It’s the trans-vaginal ultrasound bill. They both suck, but they’re two separate things, and people need to know that.
Also, it’s not a law yet. There’s still time to stop it!
(via beginningthebeguine)
I know that the law was proposed, but I don’t think it passed. I think what they did was water it down a little by...