How Is This Not Government Mandated Health Care?

I'm as pro-life as they come, but how is THIS not a government intruding on not only our health care but women's bodies?  We should all fight for life but government should never ever mandate anyone go through anything intrusive or invasive to their bodies.  If they can do this on abortions, what happens next?  What precedent does it set?  What the hell is the point of this bill anyways?

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[Ali]

I've yet to have a single pro-life person tell me they support this bill, save one who rather straightforwardly says that "as long as his tax dollars are paying for abortion, then women should have an invasive procedure."

He was not swayed by the fact that the House and Senate have passed a bill to end state medicaid funding of abortion.

This is a punishment. And it is particularly ghoulish.

It is an beyond anything I could have imagined. I am hopeful that Governor McDonnell will amend the legislation to specificially prohibit forced vaginal insertions, or will veto it.

[Ali]

Even more to your subject line question- it is not government mandated health care.

Because It is not health care. This provision is not about health- it's a mandate to perform a procedure regardless of whether or not there is a medical reason.

[Not Dick Cheney]

This bill is about as despicable a piece of legislation as one could imagine. Any of the legislators who voted for this are unfit to hold office. Period.

The word hypocrisy does not even begin to describe those who passed this bill. And, shockingly, McDonnell has signaled he intends to sign this travesty.

All those jokes about Republicans being in favor of a government small enough to fit into your bedroom didn't tell the half of it. Clearly they want a government small enough to fit in a woman's vagina. And they intend to take it there.

This country needs a conservative political party. Obviously the Republican party is NOT in any way, shape or form a conservative political party. And no Republican will get my vote for any office at any level as long as they promote policies that are more worthy of a totalitarian regime than of America.

The Republican party is completely bankrupt both politically and morally. Barry Goldwater must be spinning in his grave.

Those boys in Richmond are some truly disturbed, sick, twisted bastards. I hope they all burn in hell. That's where anyone who would vote for a bill like this belongs.

McDonnell for Vice President? If he signs this thing you can forget that. If he signs this he should be tarred and feathered. Maybe he'll get a backbone and have the decency to veto this abomination. But the word is he intends to sign it. Have all the Republicans gone insane?

[Chris]

Will Bill Bolling break a tie on this? I hoping the Dems block this b/c it will be worse for us if this passes. We rail against Obamacare invading our lives but then we pass a bill requiring THIS? Hypocrites.

[Stephen Spiker]

Maybe you should ask your boy Bob Marshall.

[Sara]

"Clearly they want a government small enough to fit in a woman's vagina." Great line.

I'm with you, Chris. Frustrating as H-E double toothpicks. I refuse to watch it anymore; have to avert my eyes.

[Chris]

For the record, I don't even mind mandating an ultrasound! But any actual invasion of the body mandated by any government just a disgusting form of government taking our personal liberty.

[Chris]

Spiker . . . I'm pretty sure "your" Bill Bolling and "you" Bob McDonnell are supporting this too. Its a pox on all our houses.

[Manny]

Meh, I'm not to worked up about it being invasive. She's about to have a cutting intruments shoved up her vagina to dismember a baby. I can go along with the government mandate side of the argument but the invasive stuff is a little silly,

[Chris]

liberty slips and slips every day, Manny, when we cheer for the encroachment of government on things we don't like and ignore the precedent it sets, opening it to encroach on things we do like.

[Stephen Spiker]

Sorry to correct you, but I haven't made up my mind on the Governor's race yet.

[Loudoun Insider]

Great post, linked to in my latest. This is a ridiculous requirement.

[Stephen Spiker]

LOL, Bob Marshall abstained from the final vote with the Governor's amendments. If he can't force the state to invade women's vaginas, then he wants no part of it!