employee seeks contraceptives for non-reproductive purposes. arizona republicans will make you tell your boss if you re having sex but taking precautions not to get pregnant. see what the boss says about that. it s the law. you have to say. over in virginia, democrats sent my friend governor ultrasound bob mcdonnell a letter asking if now that his state government is forring virginia women to get ultrasounds they don t want and don t need would he please consider not also forcing them to pay for it? governor s office said we re happy forcing this thing on women and forcing women to pay for it at the same time. republicans in the virginia lemg tur also had a chance this week to not force virginia women to pay for the ultrasounds that the republicans are forcing them to get. republicans in the virginia senate also said no. bob mcdonnell and virginia republicans want women to pay for the forced procedures themselves. bob mcdonnell is mad about
make the contraception fight in an advantage. i think debbie downer being the primary guy out there talking about this is part of why. debbie downer is an adorable nickname for rick santorum but here, come on. you guys may think this is a rick santorum problem but you wish at this point. this is in every red state in the country problem. if rick santorum did not exist, god for bid, you would still have to be trying to explain bob mcdonnell and kansas forcing doctors to lie to women about breast cancer and arizona trying to force you to tell your boss why you re on the pill, or pennsylvania and their forced vaginal probe bill. this is not a rick santorum problem, this is a republican republican problem it might be the republican problem of 2012. joining us is jan schakowski of illinois, great to see you, thank you for being here. thank you, rachel. i have a great idea. i think every woman voter should be required to see these 13:00
anti-apportion decided not to run the strip to avoid confusion with their own state s real anti-abortion bills, this strip would have been seen by practically no one. as it the strip is being run all over the place. censorship tends to have that effect in america, gets you more attention than you would have had if you just published it in the first place like you weren t cowardly. rick perry, because this strip and the new attention is becoming the latest for the vanl oh he oh vaginal ultrasound law. bob mcdonnell did not want to become known for it. they stopped asking about his prospects of vice presidential nominee. this used to be bob mcdonnell s life. i could be looking at the next running mate here. some people say the guy sitting across from me would be a good number two. would you be open to it? if you could help our country
innovative it was easy to overlook that texas governor rick perry signed his forced trans vaginal probe ultrasound bill in law last may. forced vaginal probing is the law of the land in texas and the law is in effect. anybody who didn t dmknow that will know by the end of the week. gary trudeau chose the subject because it was in the news, thanks to bob ultrasound mcdonnell and the relevance to the broader battle over women s health being waged in several states. for some reason, the gop has chosen 2012 to relitigate reproductive freedom, an issue resolved decades ago. why rick santorum, et all, thought it would be a good time to declare war on half the electorate. to ignore it would have been comedy malpractice. he may have been inspired by watching the debate unfold but this week s series is set in
underway and a newt gingrich-rick perry ticket could be announced before the republican convention in august. today, both the gingrich and perry camps are officially denying any official talks, but headlines about potential gingrich-perry ticket abound. so losing big in the first two contests, exits stage right in january, rick perry is back in the news as potential vice presidential candidate. rick perry is also in the news today as the guy forcing vaginal probe ultrasounds on texas women seeking abortions. this is a panel from this week s doonesbury series by gary trudeau. on behalf of governor rick perry may i welcome you to your compulsory trans vaginal exam. with so much attention on bob mcdonnell and anti-abortion ultrasound bill he signed in law last week after freaking out and amending it to make it seemless