{"id":183508,"date":"2013-02-08T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/08\/they-blinked\/"},"modified":"2013-02-08T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T01:11:00","slug":"they-blinked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/08\/they-blinked\/","title":{"rendered":"They Blinked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a day after some wingnuts in Michigan proposed a transvaginal ultrasound bill, <a href=\"http:\/\/livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/entry\/michigans-gop-house-speaker-rules-out-transvaginal-ultrasound\">Michigan&#8217;s House Speaker has said it&#8217;s not gonna happen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Michigan&#8217;s House Speaker Jase Bolger (R) on Thursday categorically ruled out legislation introduced by his Republican colleagues to mandate transvaginal ultrasounds for women before having an abortion.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;While I want to be sure women have access to the best technology available, I have absolutely no interest in forcing a woman to have a transvaginal ultrasound,&#8221; Bolger said in a statement. &#8220;This House of Representatives will not pass a bill mandating transvaginal ultrasounds.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Bolger is aware of how toxic the teabaggers in his caucus are, even as he has made his bed with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a day after some wingnuts in Michigan proposed a transvaginal ultrasound bill, Michigan&#8217;s House Speaker has said it&#8217;s not gonna happen: Michigan&#8217;s House Speaker Jase Bolger (R) on Thursday categorically ruled out legislation introduced by his Republican colleagues to mandate transvaginal ultrasounds for women before having an abortion.&#8220;While I want to be sure women &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123,1020,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-legislation","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}