Virginia Democratic leaders backed legislation repealing restrictions on third trimester late term abortions, repealing clinic health and safety standards, and eliminating informed consent requirements, among other provisions. They noted the measures were unlikely to pass in 2019, but Governor Northam vowed to enact them if Democrats take the Virginia House and Senate in November’s elections.
The Repeal Act, introduced as HB2491 by Delegate Kathy Tran (D-Springfield), would repeal restrictions on third trimester abortions, allow abortionists to self-certify the necessity of the procedures, eliminate informed consent requirements, repeal health and safety standards for abortion clinics, allow late term abortions to be performed in outpatient clinics, waive ultrasound requirements, and eliminate the 24 hour waiting period for abortions in Virginia, among other provisions.
Boysko, a former board member of NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia and staunch abortion advocate, said she was disappointed by the failure of her bill.
Following the defeat of the Senate bills, and foreshadowing the likely defeat of the measures in the House this year, Northam, Fairfax, and Herring said it was necessary to elect Democratic majorities in November to repeal restrictions on abortion next session.
Following the defeat of the Senate bills, and foreshadowing the likely defeat of the measures in the House this year, Northam, Fairfax, and Herring said it was necessary to elect Democratic majorities in November to repeal restrictions on abortion next session.
“So when can’t change peoples minds, we need to change seats,” said Governor Northam, speaking to the upcoming November elections.
Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax, a strong supporter of abortion, echoed the governor’s electoral sentiments.
“Though we had some setbacks today in committee around this legislation, please be on notice that when we come back for our next General Assembly session, it will be a very different outcome, because we will have more allies in the House and the Senate,” added Fairfax, who formerly served as a board member of the Planned Parenthood Metropolitan Washington Action Fund.
“I will continue to bang that gavel for progress,” said Fairfax.
Kearn SCHEMM says
Sounds like some serious deregulation – I thought that Dems liked health regulations?
Jack Trump says
“So when we can’t change people’s mnds, we change the seats” from the mouth of our Governor. THAT STATEMENT means that he knows better than I do. It says he has an agenda that he knows is contrary to the wishes of the people of this Commonwealth. It says he plns to do what he wants, and not what we want. How disgusting is that ? Our leaders brag that they know what we want but are waiting ’til more party emembers are in House so that the party’s agenda can manipulate results.
Sadly, in my opinion, I have to realize this is an overview on the way he approaches his position as our leader, and not a simple position on this topic. I’m an independent voter. He just lost mine.
I don’t agree with his opinion. I don’t want Va. to follow in the footsteps of N.Y.
Paul Plante says
Not hardly, Mr. Schemm, not hardly!
Of that, I am the living proof!
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/o … ment-77384
Paul Plante says
We are now a service economy in this country, and let us face it, abortion is a service, as can be seen by going to https://capitalwomenshealth.com/fee-schedule/ .
Another site, Clear Health Costs, has an informative article entitled “How much does an abortion cost? Well, from $0 to $3,275” by Theresa Fisher updated January 2019, which states as follows:
How much does an abortion cost?
As you guessed, it can vary: from $0 to over $3,000 depending on, among other factors, how long you’ve been pregnant, how you’re paying and, increasingly, where you live.
Insurance policies have different coverages.
Different states treat abortion differently, including how late state providers are allowed to do abortions, and under what circumstances.
Abortion is probably the most politically charged medical procedure in American history.
It’s also fairly common.
About 3 in 10 U.S. women have one by age 45.
Over a third of women getting abortions are white.
Over half are 20-somethings.
Almost half make incomes under the federal poverty level.
Most are already mothers.
Cost matters to many of these women and while states can’t ban abortion outright, they can — and do — pass laws that make it more expensive.
The situation is changing with developments on the federal level and on the state level.
While this blog post was originally written a bit ago, the links are to sites that will give up-to-date information beyond the generalities we include here.
Also, as journalists, we are confident in our reporting but please remember that the situation is changing rapidly.
Therefore some of the sites referenced here may not be up-to-the-second — so you should doublecheck all facts at the source.
In the end, abortion cost primarily hinges on the following factors:
Duration of pregnancy
Insurance, Medicaid or other funding
Where you live
For some portion of the first trimester, women can choose between a medical abortion (a.k.a. the abortion pill) and a surgical abortion.
Depending on the state, women can take the abortion pill until they are, at most, nine weeks pregnant.
Some states prohibit its use after seven weeks.
A medical abortion actually consists of a physical exam, two separate pills, Mifepristone and Misoprostol, and a follow-up appointment.
The process takes anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on how far apart the pills are taken and how long the body takes to abort after the second pill.
Patients must agree to have a surgical abortion when medical abortions don’t work, which happens less than one percent of the time.
After nine weeks, surgical abortion is generally the only choice.
During the first 16 weeks of pregnancy, women get what’s called an aspiration abortion.
A dilation and evacuation procedure is standard between 16 and 21 weeks.
For the later-term abortions, it’s more complicated.
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So we can see from this that there is some competition involved, which would be expected in a for-profit capitalist country, so New York, to capture a part of that market, and marketplace it is, is jumping out ahead of the competition, and of course, Virginia would want to follow suit, lest the money go elsewhere.
Same thing with gay marriage, which has been a huge money maker for those states where it is allowed.
Getting back to the market-place, that article continues as follows:
HOW MUCH DOES AN ABORTION COST?
We found cash or self-pay first-trimester surgical abortion fees generally range from around $300 to $1,200.
While most prices stay relatively consistent, this landscape is changing rapidly because of state and federal developments; providers in several states, including Texas, have closed because of new regulations, and prices change.
A Los Angeles Planned Parenthood office quoted us these prices: $648 for a surgical abortion through 11.6 weeks.
Later: $800 at 12.1 to 15.6 weeks, $1,050 at 16 to 17.6 weeks, $1,700 at 18 to 19.6 weeks, $2,225 at 20 to 21.6 weeks, $3,275 at 22 to 24 weeks.
Non-surgical abortion (the pill) there is $605.
There are a number of providers who will not do an abortion after the first trimester.
Sometimes this is because of state regulations.
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Ergo, to capture more of the market, simply change the state regulations.
Getting back to the article:
The National Abortion Federation found that the average price for an abortion (medical or surgical) performed between six and 10 weeks is $350 at an abortion clinic and $500 at a doctor’s office.
At 16 weeks, the average price rises to $650 at clinics and $700 at doctors’ offices.
At 20 weeks, in states that still allow abortions, the average price exceeds $1,000.
By the 24th week, the latest point at which any state permits abortion, the average price exceeds $2,000.
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So there is a market, and there is money to be made.
Where is the mystery?
Jack Trump says
20 years ago, In a place long ago and not far enough away, I knew I was headed for a divorce. No wrongdoings. My wife of 20 years simply changed her mind. Nothing I could do. I was forced to realize I’d wasted 20 years of my life. Can I have those back please ? A friend told me he had a friend who could get rid of her for $5K. I never considered it. It sure would have been cheaper than the divorce. I divorced her and live with the misery of it all. 4 years later another friend says his buddy wants me to fly to the Phillipines and marry his wife’s sister. Bring her back here as my wife so she can become a citizen. My reward ? $25K CASH and a 2 wks. all expenses paid. Does anybody out there know anyone that could have used $25K and a holiday shortly after a divorce ? I passed anyway. Never considered it.
Yeah, we live in a services oriented society. Doesn’t make all those services right. Some of the available ones are downright illegal, and I think others should remain so. Change for the sake of change is sometimes good. Sometimes not. I happen to think that for many of us morality has a lot to do with these things. It does for me. I can’t change the world, but there’s no mystery here. I think planned parenthood already gets too many taxpayers dollars and our governors idea is horrible.
Slide Easy says
They sent more ‘Services’ to arrest Roger Stone than they did to help out in Benghazi.
You cannot make this up.
Paul Plante says
Boy!
Ain’t that just the truth, though!
We’re living inside a farce!
Slide Easy says
It is all Smoke and Mirrors, from the cradle to the grave. Political Correctness has run the Truth out of town.
Julie Jones says
Commerce? Abortion is about money to be made? That is the reason to pursue this monstrous act?
Does anyone really aspire to have Virginia become like New York?
The true cost of an abortion goes way beyond dollars and cents.
An abortion will affect a woman emotionally for the rest of her life.
I cannot begin to understand how health professionals, who are supposed to be all about saving lives, can participate in abortion, which is all about taking life, or how Christians can support this evil procedure, in the name of it’s being “legal.”
There is legislation afoot which would redistrict parts of Virginia, in an effort to increase the number of Democratic-leaning districts, which is why the Governor is optimistic about getting this legislation through in another year.
God have mercy on us and our nation, for we have innocent blood on our hands, and somehow, in New York, this was such a cause for celebration that they lit up the Empire State building with pink lights.
Do we really want Virginia to follow the example of New York?
Julie Parks says
Do you really want Northern Virginia to choose who is Governor???? He could not even carry his home county.
Paul Plante says
Jack, in my experience of it, anyway, it is what it is when it is for its own reasons, which might be obscure at the time, but such it is, and ours is to endeavor to persevere and just roll with it and keep on moving on, because the past is done and gone, in terms of trying to change it, anyway, and tomarrow is what you’ll have to deal with a lot sooner than yesterday, so let sleeping dogs lie as that saying goes.
Where the attention really needs to be focused right now is on this sentence from the OP as follows:
“Virginia Democratic leaders backed legislation repealing clinic health and safety standards.”
WTF, you know what I am saying, Jack?
Isn’t that a gross abdication of constitutional responsibility to repeal health and safety standards?
Wouldn’t someone truly have to be a sociopath to do that – especially to vulnerable women?
Again, I say WTF?
How do these people look themselves in the face in the mirror without being revolted by what they see?
And here, they truly are of one mind with the Democrats/Democratic Socialists who own New York state government at this time.
Total deregulation, all rules are gone!
All conduct is now acceptable, and the purpose of the state is to be there to acquiesce, and to provide what the populace most loudly demands.
But this abdication of a constitutional responsibility to protect the health of the people of the state of New York is nothing new, and in fact goes back to 1988, when “Big Mario” Cuomo, as he was known down at the state house in Albany, was the governor and in the 8/24/1988 edition of the Troy Record, a Rensselaer County, New York rag that was pored over by Cuomo, Sr. each day, in the hopes he could find clues as to what his political enemy, former boxer and now Republican state senator from Rensselaer County, Joe Bruno, there was a good-sized picture of a full-sized likeness or effigy of then-Rensselaer County Associate Public health Engineer Paul R. Plante being lynched from a gallows erected in the back of a contractor’s truck parked right outside the door of a meeting room in East Greenbush Town Hall in East Greenbush, New York, where several Democrat Rensselaer County legislators were whipping up mob frenzy against the engineer, because he wouldn’t take bribes to look the other way while the regulations were being trampled all over, putting the health and well-being of the public at risk.
Up here, where we have been without public health protection since then, despite the law and constitution of this state, we call that lynching of the public health engineer the Dien Bien Phu of public health protection in Rensselaer County, and so it has been.
And there is no way that then-New York State governor Mario Cuomo, father of Chris of the Cuomo News Network and Young Andy, present governor of New York, could not have known about that lynching, so prominent as it was in the media at that time, including on television news, and what he did, people, and this is very New York of him, and very un-Virginian, in its turn, was to turn his back on the lynching victim, and instead put the stamp of approval of his office on the lynching, which is incredible.
So it is alright to conduct lynchings in New York, and this is according to none other than now-Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, so long as they are confined to public health engineers acting responsibly to protect the public’s health in a time of radical de-regulation by fiat, not by lawful change
Let me say that it is heartening to see people down here standing up to this attempt by Governor Northam and the Democrats in Virginia to make Virginia like New York and voicing their concerns, before it is too late, as opposed to after.
David says
How could anyone feel good about murdering babies? Is this the ne Democrat agenda. And they want to talk about morality?
Paul Plante says
“Morality” is a funny word, David, perhaps a true weasel word, because it has no real concrete meaning, so that anyone can claim the mantle of morality, and then they do.
The National Socialists in Germany in the 1930s claimed to be a moral people.
Thus, those who can kill babies under color of law can claim to be more moral than anyone else in here, if they are a member of the government, and that is an argument that cannot be countered.
“Morality’s” weakness as a useful descriptive term for human behavior owes to its definition as “principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior,” as in “a bourgeois morality,” or a “Virginia Democrat morality,” which in turn determines the extent to which an action is right or wrong, as in “behind all the arguments lies the issue of the morality of killing babies before they are born.”
Because morality can be a body of standards or principles derived from a code of conduct from a particular philosophy, religion or culture, it is clear that the Democrats in this country can have a
completely different morality than the rest of us that allows them to murder children as a part of their particular political philosophy, or religion or culture, deriving from a standard that a Democrat believes should be universal, with them deciding questions of “goodness” or “rightness” for the rest of us to have to adhere to.
While “morality” claims to speak of a system of behavior in regards to standards of right or wrong behavior, with the word carrying the concepts of moral beliefs about what is right behavior and what is wrong behavior, the degree to which something is right and good, the moral goodness or badness of something, the truth is that those answers belong to whomever has their hands on the guns held to the heads of others to make them obey the morality of those whose hands hold the guns, which is why in Virginia, Gov. Northam wants power in the hands of the Democrats – so they can play the fiddle and call the tunes.
The idea of a moral philosophy is supposed to extend beyond the individual to include what is right and what is wrong for the community and society at large, but we never hear anything about that today, do we?
As to ethics, which enters the picture here as well, it is concerned with rights, responsibilities, use of language, what it means to live an ethical life and how people make moral decisions, so it would seem that we are talking a matter of ethics here, as to how these Democrats can make whey they would argue is a moral decision by allowing the murder of babies.
In the end, morality should ultimately be a system of rules that enables groups of people to live together in reasonable harmony, and in the United States of America, that system of Rules was expressed in our United States Constitution, but when no one in power adheres or even acknowledges that system of rules, then there is no morality, and as we see on a daily basis, chaos is the result.
David says
Thank you Paul. Best response I have heard in a long time.
Stuart Bell says
A man and a woman get together and both decide to have sex. The woman then becomes pregnant and only she can decide if the baby will be killed or live. At this point the father has no say whatsoever. She, alone, decides that their baby should live. Since she has chosen not to have her baby killed, she has the Authority Having Jurisdiction make the father pay child support….If she had chosen to have her baby killed, the father could not press murder charges. Typical Liberal Evilness. Bass-Ackwards.
This is Madness. Another Liberal Wet Dream.
Paul Plante says
Madness, indeed, Stuart Bell, but it is not a “wet dream,” as you call it – it is now operational reality in the “progressive,” corrupt third-world ****-hole of New York, and there is a bit of nuance that you have missed here.
“Progressive” New York state governor Young Andy is the one who has “granted” this power to kill babies to these women, or they would not now have it, and have it they do.
That “grant” of power of necessity is based on an assumption that as a governor of New York, Young Andy Cuomo has vested in him alone literal power over life and death in this corrupt ****-hole, since the babies to be killed have no right of appeal whatsoever, unlike, say, a cop killer or a murderer of an adult.
So Young Andy has made himself into a modern-day version of the biblical King Herod with his “Slaughter of the Innocents.”
He alone is the arbiter of life and death in New York, since the “state,” which is Young Andy (“l’etat c’est moi”) can override a woman and decide that for the well-being of the “state,” her unborn child must die.
Think of the political control that gives Young Andy and these “progressives,” Stuart Bell.
He now literally has the power to eliminate a generation if he so wishes.
And outside of a few raised voices or eye-brows in here, up this way, the silence is deafening.
Not one peep of protest have I heard!
Larry Pruitt says
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/29/virginia-democrat-proposes-bill-allowing-abortion-as-woman-is-dilating/
These people are sick……pure Evil. Remember this when your Liberal neighbor needs something or your kids want to spend time with their kids or your wife want you to have dinner with them….Ostracize ’em.
Lisa Hall says
The people of New York won’t allow lethal injection of criminals, but have no problem killing babys.
Paul Plante says
The people of New York also won’t allow the lynching of an effigy of a person of color or a LGBTQ, but they will not only allow, but celebrate, the lynching of a public health officer.
Pat says
Abortion at any stage is MURDER. Someday the murders and their supporters will face their maker,God, who will punish with vengence. Until then, true Christians should work to stop it, whatever it takes.
Tom Moore says
Hear! Hear!!!!
Paul Plante says
On that subject, Pat, “Christian Today” has an article that might interest you entitled “Catholic Church says no to excommunicating Andrew Cuomo over New York state abortion law” by a staff writer on Mon 28 Jan. 2019, as follows:
The Catholic Church has rejected calls to excommunicate New York Governor Andrew Cuomo after he pushed through a radical abortion bill legalising terminations up to birth.
The controversial Reproductive Health Act removes abortion from the state criminal statute and instead moves it to the health code.
It allows pregnancies to be terminated up to the point of birth if the baby is not deemed viable or if the mother’s health is at risk.
Under the terms of the bill, doctors are also no longer required to save the life of a baby that has survived a botched abortion.
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I don’t know how that all fits in to what you are saying above about abortion being murder, which really is a pretty squishy word these days, meaning-wise, but it seems to take the wind out of that sail, anyway, because when a means of taking a life is specifically exempted from the criminal code, as is the case here, then the killing or taking of a life ,is not murder – it is an acceptable societal practice.
As to true Christians working to stop it, whatever it takes, the article continues on that score, as follows:
Cuomo further angered pro-lifers when he ordered that major landmarks in New York City, including One World Trade Center, be lit up pink in celebration of the Act’s passing.
“The Reproductive Health Act is a historic victory for New Yorkers and for our progressive values,” said Cuomo.
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Killing babies in New York, Pat, is not murder – it is a progressive value!
Getting back to that article to flesh that concept out further, we have:
“In the face of a federal government intent on rolling back Roe v. Wade and women’s reproductive rights, I promised that we would enact this critical legislation within the first 30 days of the new session – and we got it done”
“I am directing that New York’s landmarks be lit in pink to celebrate this achievement and shine a bright light forward for the rest of the nation to follow.”
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In New York state, which is a corrupt third-world ****hole ruled by a lunatic known as “Hitler on the Hudson,” women’s “reproductive rights” now include the right to murder a baby and have it not be murder, and Young Andy wants it to be that way everywhere in America, including, Pat, Virginia, because if women in New York can kill their children with impunity, why should women in Virginia be less equal, especially with Democrats in charge?
As to Christians stepping in here to do anything about it, let’s go back to the article, as follows:
The change to the law has led to calls for Cuomo, a Catholic, to be excommunicated.
The Bishop of Tennesee Bishop Rick Stika tweeted on Thursday that he would excommunicate Cuomo if he were in his jurisdiction.
“Someone asked me today if I would issue an excommunication of a Catholic Governor under my jurisdiction if the Governor did the same as in New York.”
“I think I might do it for any Catholic legislator under my jurisdiction who voted for the bill as well as the Governor,” he said.
He added in a separate tweet: “Enough is enough.”
“Excommunication is to be not a punishment but to bring the person back into the Church.”
“It’s like medicine for them.”
“But this vote is so hideous and vile that it warrants the act.”
“But thankfully I am not in that position.”
“Very sad.’
The Bishop of Albany Edward Scharfenberger told ‘Fox & Friends’ on Saturday that the Reproductive Health Act was a “very radical separation from the Catholic communion” and that he viewed excommunication as a “last resort.”
“It goes way beyond Roe v. Wade in so many ways, so I don’t see it as something to celebrate,” he said.
“The kind of procedures that are now available in New York state, we wouldn’t even do to a dog or a cat…”
“It’s torture.’
But a spokesman for Archbishop of New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan said in a statement to CNN that excommunication was “not an appropriate response to a politician who supports or votes for legislation advancing abortion.”
In the statement, the spokesman said “excommunication should not be used as a weapon” and suggested that doing so could even give a “political advantage” to pro-abortion politicians.
Cardinal Dolan appeared on ‘Fox & Friends’ on Monday to reiterate his opposition to excommunicating Cuomo.
He said he was against the move despite receiving “wheelbarrows of letters every day” from angry Catholics telling him to excommunicate the governor.
“I think that would be counterproductive myself,” he said.
“We would be giving ammo to our enemies … the Canon Laws would also say you have to use it for a medicinal purpose and you think that there’s going to be a good effect that can come out of this.”
” We have a governor that brags about it.”
He added: “He’s not going to be moved by this.”
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So much for the Christians coming to the rescue here.
Slide Easy says
The fathers should be allowed to press murder charges if the mother is allowed to pay someone to kill their baby.
She should be forced to do it herself.
Paul Plante says
That’s a “PROGRESSIVE VALUE” staring you in the face there, Slide – so says “Progressive” New York state governor Young Andy Cuomo, who is the political role model your governor Northam has adopted as his political pole star, and his goal is to reproduce Cuomo’s Reproductive Health Act, which act removes abortion from the state criminal statute and instead moves it to the health code, where it is a perversion of the health code, an abomination, in Virginia, as governor Northam looks yearningly northward to where his idol Young Andy turned the sky pink by directing that New York’s landmarks be lit in pink to celebrate Young Andy’s achievement and to shine a bright light forward for the rest of the nation to follow, starting, of course, with Virginia, which could serve to make Cape Charles another “go to” place, besides being a destination for gay marriages, which is said to be a burgeoning marketplace for the canny investor to get into while the getting is good.
The future is now, Slide, and this is what it looks like to the north of you – think pink, if you know what I am saying, or else.
Mike Kuzma, Jr. says
And I remember how proud everyone on the ESVA was when this man was elected.
Good job, Virginians. Good job.
Stuart Bell says
Proud?? GTFOH! He could not even carry his home county. Northern Va. elected him.
Mike Kuzma, Jr. says
Northampton County, %56.92 for Northam.
Maybe not you, Stuart. But a majority of your neighbors did.
Stuart Bell says
He is not from Northampton County. He is from Accomac County, which he lost.
Mike Kuzma, Jr. says
I understand, but sadly my statement stands. It wasn’t only NoVa, and there was people here telling me how great he’d be.
Have a good week, Mr. Bell. I’m really not trying to start an argument with you, sir.
Paul Plante says
Reminds me of a story told out west of a donkey coming down a mountain path that went through a mountain stream before coming out on the other side, and there in the path, lo and behold, was a rattlesnake.
The donkey needed to get across the stream to keep following the path, so what was it to do?
But the rattlesnake also needed to cross the stream, which it couldn’t do on its own without getting washed away.
So it started pleading with the donkey, telling it how much the rattlesnake needed it, and how much the rattlesnake would appreciate it if the donkey let the rattlesnake cross the stream by riding on its back, and the rattlesnake took great pains to keep emphasizing that thing of need, and how it would be indebted to the donkey, so that finally, feeling sorry for the plight of the snake, which would end up dying there on that side of the stream, the donkey laid down and let the rattlesnake get on its back so it could get carried across the stream in safety.
And not at all surprisingly, if you know the habits of snakes, as the donkey stepped free of the water on the other side, BZZZZZAP, the rattlesnake bit it right in the neck, which was to prove fatal for the donkey, and as it was dying, it asked the simple question, “WHY?”
“Because I’m a snake,” was the answer, “and you were a fool to trust me!”
Stuart Bell says
Thanks, the abortion thing has me hot under my collar. Hell, when I was in the Coast Guard, they often used the term ‘abortion’ to describe the worst possible situation or outcome from said situation…it was a stronger form of FUBAR.
Paul Plante says
As a Viet Nam Army combat veteran intimately familiar with SNAFU, TARFU, SUSFU, FUBU, FUBAR and BOHICA, I find myself sympathetic to your viewpoint concerning the use of the term ‘abortion’ to describe the worst possible situation or outcome from said situation, it certainly being a stronger form of FUBAR, and what you call “this abortion thing,” which is now in the “PROGRESSIVE” state of New York a legitimate form of ending a human life and not having to pay a societal penalty for it.
I just went on the internet to look for the New York Penal Law sections on abortion being a form of murder, and what I was instead greeted with is a message from New York state, an advertisement, actually, announcing New York state under Young Andy Cuomo as a “go-to” destination if you happen to have a baby you want to get rid of, the abortion clinics are up and running and waiting to be of service to you, along with the casinos, of course.
The internet advertisement https://statelaws.findlaw.com/new-york-law/new-york-abortion-laws.html begins as follows, to wit:
New York abortion laws are less restrictive than those in many other states, which often impose long waiting periods, consent requirements, strict facility codes, and other statutory obstacles.
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Now, here you can see superior PR skills at play here in that first sentence – any PR dude worth his or her salt in the PR game will tell you that if you haven’t captured them in the first few words of the first sentence, you are going to miss them, and here we have a vivid real-world example of that in these few words, to wit:
New York abortion laws are less restrictive than those in many other states!
Put that in neon at all the entrances from elsewhere into the state, and watch the money roll in!
Getting back to the advertisement, and political back-slapping, it continues as follows:
A bill signed into law in early 2019 adds additional protections for abortion access, such as allowing certain medical professionals who aren’t doctors to perform the procedure and allowing abortions past 24 weeks if the fetus isn’t viable or to protect the mother’s health (before the change in the law, this was limited to protecting the mother’s life).
The law also codifies a woman’s right to access an abortion, partly in anticipation of a possible rollback of federal protections under Roe v. Wade.
Per the language of the 2019 law, “Every individual who becomes pregnant has the fundamental right to choose to carry the pregnancy to term, to give birth to a child, or to have an abortion, pursuant to this article.”
As of Jan. 22, 2019, abortion is no longer in the state’s penal code.
This means health care providers acting in good faith may not be held criminally liable.
In addition to M.D.s, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and midwives may perform nonsurgical abortions.
After the 12th week, the procedure must be in hospital on in-patient basis.
New York doesn’t have as many barriers to terminating a pregnancy, like some other states.
If you choose to have an abortion, you won’t have to get the consent of your partner or your parents if you’re 18.
As well, there’s no “cooling off” period in New York.
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And there is the future that this Democrat governor Northam wants to bring to Virginia, as a “PROGRESSIVE VALUE.”
I always say that if you are going to get hot under the color about something, it is always more efficient and effective to have a better idea of what it really is that you should be hot under the collar about, so there it is, from the desk of Northam’s political hero in New York State, Democratic Socialist “Progressive” Young Andy Cuomo.
Is that what you want governor Northam to implement in Virginia?
It is a business opportunity, afterall.
Jack Trump says
None of this is a surprise. It’s the new big business. Follow the money. Watch what happens. See what happens to the stem cell business. See how much they pay Planned Parenthood for those stem cells. Compare how much Cuomo and all democrats used to get from Planned Parenthood, and see wat a boost they get after this new harvest law for NY. It’s all about the benjamins.
Paul Plante says
With Young Andy Cuomo of New York, Jack, it is about POWER!
Sure, the money is a part of it, and in New York, going back to the 1600s and the fur trade in what is now the capital city, that money has always been there, especially after the “Red Fox” Martin Van Buren got his hand into it, but money isn’t the “end,” it is the means to “POWER,” which is the end in New York state politics, where Young Andy Cuomo is essentially all three branches of government in this corrupt ****-hole in the person of one man, that being Young Andy himself, now that he has achieved one-party rule in his state.
He is as much a tyrant in this state as he could be in any other corrupt ****-hole on the face of the earth, and here, he is an untouchable, unlike Maduro in Venezuela.
That, Jack, is POWER, and in this, the “EMPIRE” state, where Young Andy is our Caligula, POWER is what it is all about.
In New York State, Young Andy Cuomo now holds in his hands a literal power he granted himself that makes it so he can decree who lives or dies, without due process of law, or a trial, with no right to appeal.
That is what Young Andy Cuomo has decreed in New York State, and that is what Ralph Northam wanted to import into Virginia, when BUHZOWEEEE, it appeared to us simple-minded country folks up here to the north of you that the hand of God seemed to literally swing down and slap Ralph Northam hard up alongside the head with these “racist” photos which are appearing now, instead of yesterday, which incidentally, this according to a FOX News story, and what incentive would they have to lie about it, entitled “Northam rival’s campaign blames GOP group for not finding racist yearbook photo” by Alex Pappas on 4 February 2019 was the fault of the Republican Governors Association, which group comes across in this drama as being quite incompetent and untrustworthy, to wit:
Since it was revealed Friday that Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam’s yearbook page from medical school included a photo of a man dressed in blackface and another person in a KKK robe, incredulous Republicans have been asking: How was it not found earlier?
Ed Gillespie, the Republican who ran against Northam in 2017, declined to comment Monday.
But the manager of his campaign, Chris Leavitt, told Fox News that the Republican Governors Association was responsible for opposition research during the campaign, seemingly blaming the organization for apparently not finding the yearbook page.
“The RGA handled opposition research for our campaign,” Gillespie campaign manager Chris Leavitt said in an email.
“Obviously we are surprised that this information was not included in their report but as they did the work, they would have to answer any questions regarding their processes.”
A spokesman for the RGA, a well-funded organization dedicated to electing and supporting Republican governors in races across the country, did not return requests for comment on Monday.
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Now, Jack, are you surprised to hear that the RGA is staying silent here, especially in the light of the following, to wit:
Republicans have expressed disbelief that the yearbook page didn’t surface during such a high-profile and contentious contest – especially one where race played a large role.
“Sheer incompetence,” tweeted former George W. Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen.
“Isn’t checking yearbook pages opposition research 101?”
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And of course it is, which is a sign of just how amateurish the RGA really is, which takes us back to the FOX News story, as follows:.
President Trump argued over the weekend that Gillespie would have easily won if the “terrible picture” from Northam’s yearbook had only surfaced before the election.
“Ed Gillespie, who ran for Governor of the Great State of Virginia against Ralph Northam, must now be thinking Malpractice and Dereliction of Duty with regard to his Opposition Research Staff,” the president tweeted Saturday.
“If they find that terrible picture before the election, he wins by 20 points!”
The yearbook page could have also been particularly useful to Republicans: Northam and Democrats, during the campaign, used race as a weapon against Gillespie, seeking to tie him to the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville that year.
At the time, the Gillespie campaign called it an “ugly character smear.”
A liberal group called the Latino Victory Fund, which supported Northam, ran an ad at one point showing a pickup truck displaying a “Gillespie for governor” bumper sticker, as children attempted to outrun the driver.
It was a reference to the Charlottesville violence, where a white supremacist driver plowed into a crowd of counter protesters.
Also during the campaign, former Hillary Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon tweeted a photo of tiki torch-wielding white nationalists in Charlottesville with the caption: “Live look at Ed Gillespie campaign strategy meeting.”
Mailers funded by the Democratic Party of Virginia also surfaced with Gillespie and Trump superimposed over a photo of the white supremacist protesters. “On Tuesday, November 7th, Virginia gets to stand up to hate,” it read.
When Northam won, California Sen. Kamala Harris tweeted congratulations to Northam for “showing that Virginia won’t stand for hatred and bigotry.”
Since the yearbook photo surfaced Friday, Northam has apologized but has resisted calls from nearly the entire Democratic establishment, including 2020 Democratic presidential contenders like Harris, to resign.
He has said he doesn’t believe he is one of the people pictured in the photo.
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And while that drama is playing itself out on live TV, more fury is brewing on the horizon for beleaguered Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax as we can clearly see from the New York Post article “Justin Fairfax’s accuser hires law firm that represented Christine Blasey Ford” by Mark Moore on February 5, 2019, as follows:
The woman who accused Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexually assaulting her more than a decade ago hired the same law firm that represented Christine Blasey Ford in her allegations against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, according to a report on Tuesday.
The California woman has retained Washington, DC-based firm Katz, Marshall and Banks and is talking to her attorneys about her next step, NPR reported.
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If what Kavanaugh went though is any indication, that right there is a huge storm brewing for Justin Kavanaugh, separate and apart from whatever happens to Northam, whose offenses against society are deemed to be far more serious than those of Justin Fairfax.
So talk about the show that never ends, alright – this is it!
Paul Plante says
It sounds very much as if these “PROGRESSIVES,” a term that is used by many Democrat presidential contenders to describe themselves, are actively bringing back Eugenics, the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics, as a “PROGRESSIVE VALUE” for today and tomarrow, which is not surprising, since it was “PROGRESSIVES” of a previous generation who tried to foist that off as a science, when it was mummery and quackery, instead.
Developed largely by Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, eugenics fell into disfavor only after the perversion of its doctrines by the Nazis, and here we very much appear to have a case of that same perversion in New York state with this new Cuomo law that allows the “state” to abort fetuses from women it deems should not have them.
As to eugenics, it is a set of beliefs and practices that aims at improving the genetic quality of a human population by excluding (through a variety of morally criticized means) certain genetic groups judged to be less desirable and promoting other genetic groups judged to be superior.
There is the power that “Progressive” Democratic Socialist governor Young Andy Cuomo just granted himself in the corrupt third-world ****-hole of New York, there is power that Virginia governor Northam seems to crave and lust after – to be like Cuomo, the ultimate arbiter in Virginia of how to improve the genetic quality of the human population of Virginia by excluding certain genetic groups judged to be less desirable and promoting other genetic groups judged to be superior.
What a power that is for a politician to have!
The term “eugenics” was coined by Sir Francis Galton, 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911, an English Victorian era statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician, who was knighted in 1909, in 1883.
In a 1937 journal article by Major General Frederick Henry Osborn, 21 March 1889 – 5 January 1981, an American philanthropist, military leader, and eugenicist who was a founder of several organizations and played a central part in reorienting eugenics in the years following World War II away from the race- and class-consciousness of earlier periods so that the American Philosophical Society considered him to have been “the respectable face of eugenic research in the post-war period,” entitled “Development of a Eugenic Philosophy,” eugenics was framed as a social philosophy—that is, a philosophy with implications for social order, which it most definitely does for the social order in New York state, where what is known as the new eugenics, also known as neo-eugenics, consumer eugenics, or liberal eugenics, is taking root.
The modern history of eugenics, which is making its way into New York and Virginia, began in the early 20th century when a popular eugenics movement emerged in the United Kingdom and spread to many countries including the United States, Canada and most European countries.
As Wikipedia tells us, and none of this is any kind of secret, except to those unaware of it, in that period, eugenic ideas were espoused across the political spectrum, with the consequence that many countries, including here in the USA, adopted eugenic policies with the intent to improve the quality of their populations’ genetic stock with such programs including both “positive” measures, such as encouraging individuals deemed particularly “fit” to reproduce, and “negative” measures such as marriage prohibitions and forced sterilization of people deemed unfit for reproduction.
People deemed unfit to reproduce often included people with mental or physical disabilities, people who scored in the low ranges of different IQ tests, criminals and deviants, and members of disfavored minority groups.
Of interest to this discussion is the fact that the eugenics movement became negatively associated with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust when many of the defendants at the Nuremberg trials attempted to justify their human rights abuses by claiming there was little difference between the Nazi eugenics programs and the U.S. eugenics programs.
Ponder that a moment as you consider the direction these “PROGRESSIVES” like Young Andy Cuomo want to take the nation in. keeping in mind that a major criticism of eugenics policies is that, regardless of whether “negative” or “positive” policies are used, they are susceptible to abuse because the criteria of selection are determined by whichever group is in political power at the time.
Jack Trump says
I try not to appear overly opinonated here, but simply make a statement once, and let it stand for itself. Wait for it…….perhaps one more comment this time. Re:Ralph Northam/abortion……..heaven help us. I grew up Catholic. Am non-pracicing formally. I remain there in spirit. I am a registered independent voter. Always have been. I commented about a wk. ago that I disliked Northam’s move. I dislike it even more now. I suspected his move was for The Party. I believe so even more now. Consider this.
He is a Dr. A Pediatric Neuroligist I believe. What type specialist could better inject creedence into such an opinion ? One with a conscience, but I digress.
Please remember, Drs. are trained to remain emotionally detached from the plight/needs of their patients. That training improves their effectivenes,s thankfully, most of the time.
Those few things being said, I think Northam is showing us he has aspirations in the political world.
A gov. in Va. I believe is restricted to 1 term. If true, he can’t be re-elected, so who could more easily fall on his sword for the party than a natl. spotlght gov./former neurologist who has no election to lose ?
I respect Michelle Malkin. She has some emotion in her news analysis, which I try to accept and filter, but her facts seem to always be accurate. She just stated 1/31 that Ralph Northam has accepted $2 million in backing from Planned Parenthood. They are the biggest abortion harvesting business in this country. Harvesting and selling body parts w/o proper oversight. Stem cell research is quite the business with the sky the limit and little oversight.
It appears the Democrats will accept money from anywhere, and I believe I see that is what Mr. Northam is becoming a part of. More Planned Parenthood $ will be flowing to democrats if this becomes law. Take that to the bank. It IS all about The Benjamins.
Once you learn, and realize the truth, you sadly learn how bad all of this has gotten. Learn that the Uranium 1 deal happened, and Ms. Clinton as Sec. of State, with Mr. Obama, oversaw and approved the sale of uranuium to a Russian Corp. Then you know they will do anything to make $. We can’t sell our uranium to Russia, so that Russian corp, now legally in America, sells our yellow cake uranium to Canada, who then sells it to Russia. Russia then sells it to the Middle east where it is bought with the $150 Billion in cash that our last president gave back to them, so they can spin it in centrifuges and…….well who wants to predict THAT FUTURE ?
Bill Clinton makes millions in speeches in Russia, and the $ goes to The Clinton Foundation. It is all as sick and twisted as can be.
So do I think a detached specialized Dr, a 1 term gov, is becomig besties with former Gov McCauliffe? The man who is is very responsible for raising lots of $ forMs. Clinton’s campaigns ?
Yes I think it’s all about The Benjamins and they are all laughing at us with their scams/hijinks.
Oh, and as an aside………I’d recommend the book “The Russian Hoax” by Gregg Jarrett to everyone. A very sad, truthful eye opener to what’s going on in D.C, and what a dismal swamp it is.
Good Luck to us all.
Paul Plante says
Jack, as to your statement that “I try not to appear overly opinonated here, but simply make a statement once, and let it stand for itself,” that is what the politicians like Ralph Northam and Young Andy Cuomo of New York are hoping for and counting on, actually.
There will be a little buzz, and then it will blow over as people look for something more interesting to be upset about, like the way Tristan is treating Khloe, for example, or Cardi B calling Trump a dog, which I think had Kanye quite upset, to be truthful.
That’s what they count on , Jack, because that is what they get.
And interestingly, if I had not of seen this article in the Cape Charles Mirror in Virginia, I wouldn’t even know what was going on up here in this regard, which I think is an abomination.
You go on to say, “I suspected his move was for The Party,” and “I believe so even more now,” to which I reply of course he is doing this for the Democrat party.
He comes out and says that above here, to wit:
Virginia Democratic leaders backed legislation repealing restrictions on third trimester late term abortions, repealing clinic health and safety standards, and eliminating informed consent requirements, among other provisions.
They noted the measures were unlikely to pass in 2019, but Governor Northam vowed to enact them if Democrats take the Virginia House and Senate in November’s elections.
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I don’t think that that is susceptible to too many alternative meanings, is it?
And then you say this:
Those few things being said, I think Northam is showing us he has aspirations in the political world.
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The fact that he is governor already is proof to me, Jack, that the dude has aspirations in the political world, and this attempt to adopt into Virginia the anti-life agenda of Young Andy Cuomo of New York smacks me as being a modern-day version of Hitler and Mussolini and the Pact of Steel signed on 22 May 1939 – it is obscene.
POWER, Jack – it is an aphrodisiac!
Slide Easy says
FYI:
https://pilotonline.com/news/government/politics/virginia/article_67fdd682-2662-11e9-a7d1-c7ed70e09b50.html
Paul Plante says
In an odd twist to this story, the Virginian-Pilot just came out with a story entitled “Ralph Northam yearbook page shows men in blackface and KKK robe” by Marie Albiges and Gordon Rago, Staff writers, 1 February 2019, where we learn as follows:
A photo from Gov. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook shows two men, one in blackface and one in a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood, on the same page as the future governor.
The photo, which The Virginian-Pilot obtained a copy of Friday from the Eastern Virginia Medical School library, comes from the 1984 yearbook, the year Northam graduated.
On the half-page set aside for Northam, there is a headshot of him in a jacket and tie, a photo of him in a cowboy hat and boots and a third of him sitting casually on the ground, leaning against a convertible.
The fourth photo on the half-page has two people, one wearing white Ku Klux Klan robes and a hood, the other with his face painted black.
The person with the black face is also wearing a white hat, black jacket, white shirt with a bow tie and plaid pants.
Both are holding canned drinks.
It’s unclear who the people in costume are.
Under the photo of the men in blackface and the Klan hood are listed Northam’s alma mater, Virginia Military Institute, and his interest: “Pediatrics.”
His quote is listed as “There are more old drunks than old doctors in this world so I think I’ll have another beer.”
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As to that last, there are a lot of people out there in the world who would agree with that statement.
Getting back to that article, of course politics would have to come into it, as follows:
The chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia, Jack Wilson, said in a statement: “Racism has no place in Virginia.”
“These pictures are wholly inappropriate.”
“If Governor Northam appeared in blackface or dressed in a KKK robe, he should resign immediately.”
In a separate statement, four top Republican lawmakers — House of Speaker Kirk Cox, Senate Majority Leader Thomas K. Norment Jr., House Majority Leader Todd Gilbert and Senate Rules Committee Chairman Ryan T. McDougle — said: “This is a deeply disturbing and offensive photograph in need of an immediate explanation by the governor.”
The photo came to light after a week in which the Democratic governor came under fire for his comments about a bill introduced by a first-term Democratic lawmaker that would have loosened restriction abortions in Virginia.
On Wednesday, Northam was on a WTOP-FM show and was asked about a failed bill introduced by Del. Kathy Tran that would have relaxed limits on third-trimester abortions.
On the WTOP show, Northam — a child neurologist — defended Tran’s bill, saying it was “blown out of proportion” and that such abortions are done “in cases where there may be severe deformities, there may be a fetus that is nonviable.”
Explaining what would happen in such a case, Northam made comments that were soon seized on by political opponents and others: “The infant would be delivered, the infant would be kept comfortable, the infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”
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So there is some more grist for this mill to chew on, anyway.