VA Governor Bob McDonnell (R) Says There is No War on Women

After backing two anti-abortion bills in the Virginia legislature, Governor Bob McDonnell had the temerity to say on CNN:

This "war on women" argument is very unfortunate. It's false, and it's been the political theater for the Democrats for the past couple of months.

A fetal personhood bill would have granted the fetus status as a person; had it passed, it would have criminalized abortion. It passed the House of Delegates, but was fortunately tabled by the Senate until next year.

A bill requiring an invasive transvaginal ultrasound procedure passed both houses and was signed by Governor McDonnell.  The bill "requires a woman undergoing an abortion to have a"'transvaginal ultrasound"-- i.e. to require a doctor to insert a speculum and then an ultrasound probe into her vagina against her will and reflect that image onscreen.

                     -- http://www.thefrisky.com/2012-02-15/virginia-advances-anti-abortion-fetal-personhood-and-transvaginal-ultrasound-bills/

Okay, let's get this straight. You, Governor McDonnell, a member in good standing of the "less government is better" party, advance a bill that virtually rapes women and sign it into law, and then have the goddamned gall to say the war on women is a figment of the Democrats' imagination? Does that pretty much sum it up?

 Bob McDonnell, you are a disingenuous bastard. And the voters know it.



 Sources:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/07/bob-mcdonnell-virginia-mandatory-ultrasound-bill_n_1327707.html

 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/21/bob-mcdonnell-va-gov-war-on-women_n_1370834.html