"State Sponsored Rape!"

     Vagina, vagina, vagina. It took a very long time for people to be comfortable enough with themselves to be able to say that word.  It took millions of feminists, thousands of books, and hundreds of lectures for society to appreciate the woman for what she is rather than what she can cook. And this comfort barrier that has been broken when it comes to the word vagina isn't always a good thing. Sometimes those people, who begin to use the word comfortably, take advantage of the progress that others have made, and in turn, take the vagina and detach it from its owner.

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    Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell took the word vagina to a new level with a violation that continues to shock me every time I press the replay button on the YouTube clip. Recently Virginia’s House and Senate passed a bill to enact a medically unnecessary vaginal probing of a woman if she wishes to undergo an abortion in the state. This probing is to be done against the woman and her physician’s consent if she desires to have an abortion and was surprisingly passed thanks to the help of the republicans in Virginia. The only reason why the subject was mediatized was because democrats in the state required that the republicans in the legislature spell out the conditions of this procedure in the bill. When the media caught wind of the fact that republicans were basically signing a bill for the state to rape women legally, the republicans including McDonnell backed down and claimed they “were not aware of how invasive the procedure could be.”

     Of course there were protests and the media bombarded the legislature. But this plan to “bully women into not having abortions,” as democrat David Englin states in the clip, is absurd! You cannot penetrate (which is exactly what it is, penetrating) women without their consent just for the sake of reinforcing your personal beliefs and those of your political affiliation. News and the government just gets weirder and weirder every day. Just as Rachel Maddow bodly says, “what a difference people paying attention makes.”

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