by Tracy Weitz, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH)

March 1, 2013 - 8:57 am

In the heated debate around trans-vaginal ultrasounds, there is too little focus on what is really wrong with these laws.

by Tarina Keene, NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia

April 16, 2012 - 8:48 pm

With their new power in Richmond, anti-choice politicians thought 2012 was their premier opportunity to railroad these policies into law with little resistance. These lawmakers grossly underestimated the outrage their insidious attacks on women’s health would provoke in Virginia and across the nation. With this spring awakening will come retribution at the polls this fall and in fall 2013.

by Tara Casey

February 29, 2012 - 4:28 pm

Early this morning, I learned that Governor McDonnell had ordered a SWAT Team to cover a Candlelight Vigil I attended the night before at the Governor’s Mansion. Riot police were hiding in the bushes, while my two small children and I sang, “This Little Light of Mine.”  And that was only the beginning of my lesson.

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

February 22, 2012 - 2:38 pm

After a year of signing laws and regulations decried by medical professionals as unnecessary and costly intrusions into the doctor-patient relationship, Bob McDonnell has suddenly found religion on medical evidence.  At least a little bit. He now says he will not sign mandatory trasn-vaginal ultrasounds into law. But he’ll restrict women’s rights other ways.

by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

February 19, 2012 - 7:41 pm

The claim that mandatory ultrasounds are about information has no basis in research or common sense. Luckily, conservatives are beginning to abandon that argument and admit that it’s all about punishing women for having sex. 

by Andy Kopsa

February 17, 2012 - 5:53 pm

According to Virginia Delegate David Englin doctors will be turned into criminals and women victims of a sex crime under the “object sexual penetration” law if Governor Bob McDonnell signs the state sanctioned rape bill.  Mr. Englin plans to bring his case to the floor next week when the house debates the senate version of the bill.

by Andy Kopsa

February 15, 2012 - 3:15 pm

Let’s start calling these bills what they are: state-sanctioned rape. There is no other way around it.