Attorney General Jason Miyares is apologizing to victims’ families of violent crime for the “unacceptable treatment” he says they received on January 31, during a House Subcommittee hearing on HB834.
campaigns. great to have both of you with us. delegate watts, let me start with you. how did this all go down? what happened here? what are you hearing in virginia tonight? well, the governor walked it down. it was only a very small step back from the brink. he mentioned in the clip that you used that women have a right to know, well, anyone in elective office has a duty to understand. and although we have a new bill before us in ten minutes, we were told to that we had to vote on that bill. we could not take it off the floor for real study and the bill that he drafted, his bill, is full of mistakes. is full of insensitivities and lack of knowledge. you mentioned the one. someone who has rape still has to go through an ultrasound.
that really doesn t fix anything. when your bill makes it on to the late night comedy circuit that you have a bad bill. tim kaine was out in virginia saying this bill has made virginia the laughing stock of the nation. i think it has. and the compromise bill that mcdonnell put forth today is worse than the original because it mandates in very early pregnancy, before a transabdominal ultrasound would even work, would even do anything. it mandates a woman undergo that procedure. so it s gone from being an invasive and unnecessary procedure to just completely useless and unnecessary procedure. let s keep in mind that governor mcdonnell ran on the campaign slogan, bob s for jobs. i m not sure what this bill is doing to create jobs for virginians. let me ask you, delegate watts, when you see this, clearly they are responding to the protests and the outcry. but it seems to be more changing their positioning and posturing than their policy and
that this assault on basic human freedoms is not what this country is about. it s s not what virginia, the founding of this country, should be about. and it s embarrassing. now, laura, let me ask you quickly because i m going to run out of time, but i need to ask you the politics of this. i was showing footage while the delegate watts was speaking of the governor with mitt romney and willard mitt romney is getting ready now for a debate tonight. what will this mean lilttl poli? will this help the democrats by energizing women and seeing another state with another republican governor come with some outrageously right wing reactionary proposals? it absolutely helps the democrats. women s groups and democratic campaigns have been profiting enormously off of the culture war in the past couple of weeks. first, susan g. komen defunded planned parenthood and then