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Backlash

Posted by linkmeister on 22 February 2012, 1:36 pm

You’ve undoubtedly heard of the Virginia bill requiring that a women seeking an abortion must have a transvaginal ultrasound probe in order to shame her into carrying the child to term (but after that, lady, you’re on your own caring for the kid). In Georgia, a state representative named Yasmin Neal has just introduced a …

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