Virginia legislators--Off with their heads!

Someone asked me recently how I decide to write a particular blog, since I often skip writing on days that are hot with political news.  The answer is when something moves me to great anger.  This happened yesterday when I read that the Virginia legislature, both houses, voted to force women to have an intra-vaginal sonogram before they elect to have a legal abortion.  (And it happened in a state named after a woman--how horrifically ironic.)  As angry as I am at the men who bring these laws into being, I'm even angrier at the women who sit back and let it happen.  I've had an intra-vaginal sonogram and hated it, although it was medically necessary.  If such an examination is not medically necessary, it's the equivalent of rape:

This examination takes the standard sonogram examination one step further, by introducing a special probe that can be placed directly in the vagina. A developing fetus at six to eight weeks can be easily seen by the standard exam. Before six to eight weeks however the standard exam may not give the information needed. The Intravaginal Sonogram using the special probe, improves visibility due to its position inside the vagina. Under six to eight weeks of age, a fetus may not be seen by standard sonography. The ovaries also are small and difficult to see through the abdomen. Placing the Intravaginal Probe closer to the uterus and ovaries, improves the quality of the images. 

A woman who has decided on an abortion does not need this examination--its sole purpose is to humiliate her for daring to make decisions concerning her own body.  Perhaps, as some women suggest, the recent viral attempts to control women by passing laws that deny them contraceptives is the last pathetic mew of men (too many men, apparently) who regret the passing of the Victorian age where they did whatever they wished to women without repercussion--and I refer in particular to the Catholic clergy.  If we don't fight back, and I mean fight back with whatever weapons are available--voting, writing, marching, denying, we'll lose our rights.

Younger women are the most culpable in their passivity. Get off your duffs and your cell phones, stop the manicures, the pedicures, and the hair straightening, and fight! It's your world now and it's your fight.  I'm tired, and I no longer need contraceptives!