Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell (R) doesn’t respect your constitutional right of privacy as an individual, not if you’re a woman.
Governor McDonnell seeks to zero out any medical advice you might get and any abortion you might seek to have in your first trimester – if it’s from any of the 20 affordable clinics in Virginia.
He also wants to prevent any woman from paying for any health insurance coverage rider on the state insurance exchange that would cover an abortion in the first trimester.
This is nothing new to women who have known men all their lives who try to tell them what to do and who treat them like they’re property – consistent with the “original intent” of our flawed constitution before its belated amendment in 1920.
The Governor insists in sonorous incantations, at the drop of a political leaflet, that women should be grateful that he has interfered with their health choices, first, by imposing new stringent and unnecessary health regulations that shall operate to bar first trimester abortions in any of the 20 clinics that already follow unassailable medical procedures, and second, by banning private insurance coverage riders for abortion care on the state insurance exchange.
The Governor forces on women his factually unsupported religious belief that a fetus is a person in the first trimester. No matter that the constitution says otherwise as a matter of law.
McDonnell disclosed his eccentric projection of the ideal “American Family” in a 1989 graduate thesis at Pat Robertson’s “university.” Bob later said he didn’t really mean what he wrote, but his public actions since have confirmed that he really did.
O’Donnell said in his thesis that birth control and abortion had “reduced birth rate below that which is required to replenish the current population” (at p. 6). Our 2010 census, however, demonstrates that this nation was 4.6% of the global population in 2000, at 282 million people, and has enlarged its footprint, at 4.9% of the global population, with 310 million people.
Bob said he believed the “trend of working women and feminists” encourages the “non-parental primary nurture of children” (at p. 40). In other words, Bob wants women pregnant and bare foot, and not working -- so they may “nurture.” “Feminism,” Bob wrote, lest you have any doubts about his chauvinism, is among the “real enemies of the traditional family” (at p. 65).
“Blue law” Bob also decried “the perverted notion of liberty that each individual should be able to live out his sexual life in any way he chooses without interference from the state” (at p. 9).
To preserve and protect the family, Bob said the government “has the right to legitimately discriminate in support of this goal” (at p. 34). O’Donnell explained that the way he’d do that would be to “chip away at the fringes” of the law that allows for a woman’s constitutional right of choice (at p. 54). Obviously, precluding health care and insurance coverage fit his stratagem.
Like the indifferent play-acting Monty Python physicians, in “The Meaning of Life;” Bob is telling women who believe that they have the right to control their own bodies, to think again, “you are not qualified.”
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