While some abortions are a result of poor "lifestyle choices", many are not. This decision affects EVERYONE. Can you honestly tell that 16-year-old who was date raped or that 14-year-old who was sexually assulted by her uncle, "Sorry, you need to carry that baby full term"? Or "Sorry, in order to abort that baby we're going to have to cause further trauma and embarassment by violating you once more with this vaginal ultrasound probe"? I hope to god any one of the 66 persons who voted for the "personhood" bill are never put in that position. I would hate to be the grandmother or grandfather of a rapist's baby.

 

Regardless of whether the personhood bill passes, the insane regulations legislators are trying to impose on abortion clinics is already enough to shut them down, which is the whole goal anyway. However, in doing so you can guarantee you're going to see a rise in back-alley abortions, dumpster babies, requests for welfare and other state assistance, a surplus of children in adoption agencies and so on. Who is going to pay for that? Tax payers? And for what? All because a bunch of men want to govern what a women does with her body? Who's policing men's bodies? When did women's rights become obsolete?

 

I think it's sad that we've become the laughing stock of a nation and the only state giving the big middle finger to its voters by not allowing them to vote on all of these proposed bills. And for the first time I'm honestly embarassed to be a Virginian.