All of these old white men passing these despicable laws.....do they HONESTLY think that a woman contemplating an abortion hasn't ALREADY considered the ramifications of what she's doing?? Does she need her nose rubbed in it? Women don't just get up one morning and say, "Guess I'll run by and have an abortion today." We don't need some old white guy who has never been pregnant and never will be telling us what to do. and to be so cavalier about it. Personally, what we need is to have some really smart female scientist come up with a pill to render men sterile except for 3 days a month and then we'd know when to avoid them.

Look, all these unfair taken to the line of legality are an attempt to intimidate and try to make it as costly as possible. I mean even the 24hr wait period is a financial burden for most women because they have already made as few clinics available meaning a lot of women would need over night accommodations. This is an assault on womens legal health care decisions. Its like I have said before,its a bunch of AOWM (ANGRY OLD WHITE MEN) who are losing control of what they see as their birthright. They are loosing THEIR KINGDOMS.They are even trying very hard to disenfranchise all groups they fear as their enemy's. Breaking up unions,requiring collage students,African Americans, disabled and the beloved old folks that do not have photo ID's. Even some angry old white women, Ann Coulter said you should not be allowed to vote until you are 26 how ridicules, you can handle sophisticated weaponry at 18 will serving your country. she turned 50 on December 8 2011, she is a Christian Conservative,I wonder if she is still a VIRGIN, shes certainly bitchy enough to be. Hum I wonder if shes not she has ever used the bad sexual realm BIRTH CONTROL PILL.

I really enjoy your presentation of the news. I especially enjoy the blowback when you gently probe and prick those of bloated self importance.

Of special interest are the ones of a self-righteous bent who would send the hard earned rights of women back to the days of very few rights. If it's Christ they are trying to emulate then they have forgotten the proverbial “cast the first stone”. I have found nothing in the new Testament where He speaks of abortion but He does have a lot to say about hypocrisy.

Instead of standing in front of a clinic heckling a woman, who has probably had to make the hardest decision of her life, why not put all that energy into helping the thousands of children who die of starvation, filthy drinking water, disease, left in a dumpster, sold into slavery, portrayed in porn, tortured or murdered.

And as for as the pious indignation of “the Church”, I would think they have enough on their plate dealing with a little problem called pedophilia.

If they are interested in how it was in my day, I recall, with sadness, one instance that says it all. A high school friend (age 16) became pregnant. Unable to confide in her overly strict parents and with no where else to turn to she decided to “fix“ the problem herself - naturally, she died.

Going back further, my maternal grandmother had 10 children, my paternal grandmother had 9 children, my grandfather's mother had 13 children and my uncle's mother had 15 children. 4 women - 47 children! I have racked my brain trying to figure out why some men are so hell bent on curtailing women's rights but I shouldn't be surprised. Its been this way since time began...control!

If the book I am writing should ever be published, I will probably have to go into hiding because I have a heck of a lot more to say about the injustice in this world.

Thanks for the opportunity to get this off my chest.

Leah Wright

It's actually quite amusing in seeing how Bill O'Reilly is so elusively trying to prove his ego is of bigger stature than that of Rush Limbaugh's by taking his turn in attacking Sandra Fluke. If he only knew how stupid he sounds and how easy people can read through his b.s. But then again people that don't see beyond themselves are technically blind anyway.

So far, Bob McDonnell's achievements have been naming April "Confederate History Month", and now this ultrasound bill. In other words, he's trying to make Virginia compete with South Carolina for the country's biggest embarrassment.

As far as the Republicans are concerned, if you are not a zygote, an embryo, a fetus, a corporation, or a male, your life is not worth saving. Your work is not worth equal pay. Your children are not worth the cost of a good public education. Your health is not worth the cost of its protection. When you dare to speak out on behalf of yourself and your sisters, you will be attacked. You will be demeaned and abused. Your reaction to such treatment will then become the subject of more ridicule. They want you to just shut up! I won't.

What I would like to know is why the medical association have not said a single word about all this? Really? Laws that dictate what procedure a doctor must do, what he/she must say to patient in a private exam room, that encourage a doctor to LIE (Kansas) and the absolve them of responsibility for that lie? Where is the outrage from the medical community. This is an attack on women today but it opens the door for medical harassment and abuse of any group that does not hold a political majority. Why are the Republican's themselves not outraged by this government intrusion into our lives?

Virginia has always tried to control what goes on in the womb. A couple of years ago, Virginia made it legal for a citizen to buy a fetus a lifetime hunting license.