Reworked ultrasounds bill approved in the House
RICHMOND — After more emotional debate and another vote in the House of Delegates, legislation requiring a woman to submit to an ultrasound procedure before having an abortion is heading to Gov. Bob...
View ArticleThe Ten Dumbest Things Ever Said About Abortion and Women's Rights
As long as abortion restrictions and bans continue to be rammed through state legislatures and introduced on Capitol Hill, it seems that anti-choice zealots will continue making headlines with their...
View ArticleJMU Faculty and Students Discuss Obenshain's Efforts To Ban Emergency...
(Source: Democratic Party) 9/12/2013 RICHMOND - Today, two former James Madison University faculty members as well as current and former students called attention to Republican Tea Party candidate for...
View ArticleFeedback 10/23: Visits by U.S. Presidents
Presidential visit • Will, Williamsburg: While I realize that Mark St. John Erickson's list of presidential visits is not inclusive, Woodrow Wilson walking up Warwick Avenue should be among "the more...
View ArticleVirginia governor signs bill to require abdominal ultrasound before abortion...
RICHMOND, Va. — Gov. Bob McDonnell on Wednesday signed into law a controversial bill that requires women to have abdominal ultrasound exams before undergoing abortions. The Republican governor’s...
View ArticleUltrasound measure moves closer to becoming law
RICHMOND — After a string of disappointing defeats, abortion foes Tuesday eked out a victory on legislation to require women to undergo an ultrasound before terminating a pregnancy. The measure, HB...
View ArticleRidicule Helped Doom Virginia Ultrasound Bill
Once the word “transvaginal” became a big joke on “Saturday Night Live” and “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” it wasn't long before Virginia's conservative Republicans realized they had overreached...
View ArticleVirginia GOP lawmakers drop transvaginal test bill
Richmond, Va. -- Once the word "transvaginal" became a big joke on "Saturday Night Live" and "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," it wasn't long before Virginia's conservative Republicans realized they...
View ArticleVa. governor signs bill to require abdominal ultrasounds before abortions...
RICHMOND, Va. — Abdominal ultrasounds for women seeking abortions in Virginia will become mandatory under a bill signed into law Wednesday by the state’s Republican governor, who had faced a national...
View ArticleRidicule helps doom Virginia ultrasound bill
RICHMOND, VA.: Once the word “transvaginal” became a big joke on Saturday Night Live and The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, it wasn’t long before Virginia’s conservative Republicans realized they had...
View ArticleThere Is Nothing Constitutional About State-Mandated Transvaginal Ultrasounds
"Women might consider this bill a TSA pat-down inside their vagina."--Jon Stewart, The Daily Show Contraception and abortion are shaping up to be mobilizing issues in this year's presidential election....
View ArticleVirginia's new abortion law: 'State-sanctioned rape'?
Gov. Bob McDonnell is on the cusp of signing an unpopular bill that would force many women to undergo an invasive sonogram before getting an abortion Virginia's Republican-controlled state legislature...
View ArticleWomen protest anti-abortion legislation in Virginia
AP Feb. 20, 2012: Del. Eileen Filler-Corn, D-Fairfax, left, addresses a "Stands for Women's Rights" rally at the Bell Tower in Capitol Square in Richmond, in Richmond, Va. RICHMOND, Va. – Hundreds of...
View ArticleFeedback for Feb. 19: Outrage, photos and Facebook
• As a grandmother of four in Newport News, I find the article on Thursday's front page very offending. I cannot imagine how anyone could do this to a four-month-old child. Editor: I couldn't agree...
View ArticleVa governor signs pre-abortion ultrasound bill
RICHMOND, Va. - Abdominal ultrasounds for women seeking abortions in Virginia will become mandatory under a bill signed into law Wednesday by the state's Republican governor, who had faced a national...
View ArticleArm-in-arm, women line Capitol square sidewalks and stand mute protesting...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Hundreds of women stood mute, arm-in-arm, forming a human cordon through which legislators walked before Monday's floor sessions to protest a wave of anti-abortion legislation...
View ArticleVa governor signs pre-abortion ultrasound into law
RICHMOND, Va. — Abdominal ultrasounds for women seeking abortions in Virginia will become mandatory starting July 1 under a law signed Wednesday by the state's Republican governor, who had faced a...
View ArticleLaw requiring women seeking abortions to get ultrasound is passed by...
Virginia's state senate passed legislation that would require women seeking abortions to undergo non-invasive ultrasounds. The narrow victory comes just days after the lawmakers decided to eliminate...
View ArticleFury and ridicule doomed Virginia ultrasound bill; `on the wrong side of...
RICHMOND, Va. - Once the word "transvaginal" became a big joke on "Saturday Night Live" and "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," it wasn't long before Virginia's conservative Republicans realized they...
View ArticleFeedback for 11/7: Tamara Dietrich and grammar issues
Dietrich on Catholicism • She still gets the Catholic teachings wrong. Why don't you get one of those really good Catholic priests who occasionally write in your religious columnto actually inform...
View ArticleFury and ridicule doomed Virginia ultrasound bill; ‘on the wrong side of...
RICHMOND, Va. — Once the word “transvaginal” became a big joke on “Saturday Night Live” and “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” it wasn’t long before Virginia’s conservative Republicans realized they...
View ArticleFeedback for Sunday, April 22
Grammar error • Patty: I'm calling regarding a grammatical mistake in your paper on Tuesday, April 17th, under Local Briefs. It's titled, in York, "Police seek two restaurant robbers." The mistake is:...
View ArticleRidicule helped doom Va. ultrasound bill
Richmond Times-Dispatch, Bob Brown Pro-choice advocate Margaret Doyle from Richmond, Va., is removed by Capitol Police from the General Assembly Building in Richmond after HB1, the bill that states...
View ArticleFeedback for Sunday, Feb. 26
• Dennis, Newport News: In seeing the articles over the years that you've written about the financial shortfalls in education: Cutting back on teachers and such and maybe closing a school, getting rid...
View ArticleFeedback: About holiday, commissaries, CNU and more
•We have disasters and desperation across much of the world. Hungry and homeless people here at home. And yet, we're squandering money on trashy decorations that will go to landfills. This is the year...
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