Another Abortion Showdown in Virginia

Last Spring, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell was a pretty credible candidate for the vice presidency. Then he tripped over a trans-vaginal ultrasound bill that enraged women throughout the commonwealth and turned?almost overnight?into a great big political cautionary tale. As Alexander Burns explained in Politico, McDonnell?s early support of a law that would have mandated an invasive ultrasound procedure for women seeking abortions ?turned McDonnell?s national political fortunes upside down.? (He later switched positions, signing a modified version of that law that did away with the now politically-toxic internal probe.) McDonnell not only became a walking human punch line for a few days, but he also may have finally managed to turn the commonwealth into a blue state: President Obama appears to have opened up a 20-point lead over Mitt Romney among women voters, who, presumably, didn?t want the state probing them for no coherent medical reason.

Source: http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=68198f746cb897e9f6ac1dbbe410a7d2

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