was steaming right along with its own version of the texas bill, these ultrasound laws were ready to go all across the country. and republican-controlled states all across the country, the anti-abortion movement had made sure these bills were poised to move. but once that attention on the virginia law started to burn a hole through bob mcdonnell's vice presidential ambitions, once what virginia was trying to do became a national story and a point of national political focus and ridicule, efforts to do the same thing in many of those other states just started to fall apart. by february 26th, less than two weeks after the uproar started over virginia's bill, alabama's governor, robert bentley was asked about the very similar forced ultrasound bill pending in his state. the very next day after the governor was asked on february 27th, the republican sponsor of that bill in alabama suddenly backed away from it, saying he was going to rewrite the bill to remove the vaginal probe requirement.