Gov. Bob McDonnell reads polls
After Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell
withdrew his support from the state-sponsored rape abortion bill the House of Delegates was about to vote on, the House altered the bill. They removed the newly-discovered-as-invasive trans-vaginal ultrasound portion of the bill, leaving just a plain old unnecessary and not-medically advised ultrasound mandate.
That has likely doomed the bill.
The amended bill now returns to the Senate where its sponsor, Sen. Jill Vogel, said she will strike the legislation. A House version, by Del. Kathy Byron, is pending before a Senate committee.
Sen. Jill Vogel seems unnaturally determined to punish the state's women, which is probably going to make her increasingly unpopular with a state Republican party slowly waking up to the fact that their
constituents just aren't clamoring for extremism.