Virginia passes medical rape bill
Posted by Charles II on February 14, 2012
You want an abortion? You have to consent to a vaginal ultrasound first.
Heard on TRMS. Outsourced to SouthernVADem.
This is rape, using unwilling medical staff to perform the humiliation on behalf of the legislature, at the cost of the medical insurance system/taxpayer/patient.
Update/Correction: An earlier version of this post conflated two separate bills discussed by Michael Sluss, Roanoke Times, in Virginia Pilot. There are two bills, the medical rape bill and the Personhood bill. Regarding the Personhood bill,
Democratic opponents argued that the bill’s broad language could affect access to certain types of birth control and have other unintended consequences that were not contemplated when the bill was pushed through committee late last week.
Apologies for having conflated the two bills.
Unfortunately, these yahoos are probably on safe legal ground on the medical rape bill because, supposedly, other states have similar laws.
Update 2: And it turns out that this procedure fits the definition of rape arrived at the the International Tribunal on Yugoslavia in its Kunarac decision:
The Chamber must define rape, as there is no commonly accepted
definition of this term in international law. While rape has been
defined in certain national jurisdictions as non-consensual intercourse,
variations on the act of rape may include acts which involve the
insertion of objects and/or the use of bodily orifices not considered to be
intrinsically sexual. The Chamber considers that rape is a form of
aggression and that the central elements of the crime of rape cannot be
captured in a mechanical description of objects and body parts. . . . The
Chamber defines rape as a physical invasion of a sexual nature,
committed on a person under circumstances, which are coercive.
Sexual violence which includes rape, is considered to be any act of a
sexual nature which is committed on a person under circumstances
which are coercive. (Kunarac, Judgment, § V, paras. 596-98.
6 Responses to “Virginia passes medical rape bill”
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Phoenix Woman said
Which means that VA persons needing abortions will be heading to DC.
Charles II said
Hopefully with pitchforks and torches.
MEC said
“unintended consequences that were not contemplated when the bill was pushed through committee late last week.”
I’m quite certain consequences such as outlawing some forms of birth control are intended and were contemplated when the Thugs chose the wording. It isn’t paranoia when they really are out to get you.
Phoenix Woman said
Exactly. They themselves can afford to send their wives, daughters and mistresses to, say, New York CIty for discreet weekend trips. It’s their poorer constituents who will be screwed.
sarah johnson said
It articulatilates well how this law violates of a womans body. It is unbeleivable how politics in 2012 are still being played out on womans bodies. There is so much work to be done in government yet this is what is getting done.
Charles II said
Elect people who believe that government is the problem, and they will prove that it’s so.