{"id":183510,"date":"2013-02-07T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/07\/its-back-3\/"},"modified":"2013-02-07T21:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:06:00","slug":"its-back-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/07\/its-back-3\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Back!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2013\/02\/michigan-republicans-introduce-bill-mandating-transvaginal-ultrasound-before-abortion.php\">transvaginal ultrasound abortion bill has been submitted in the Michigan state house<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Michigan Republicans have introduced a bill requiring all women to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound before obtaining an abortion, a move that rekindles last year\u2019s firestorm when other GOP-led states were considering similar measures.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The legislation introduced Tuesday in the state House ensures the \u201cperformance of a diagnostic ultrasound examination of the fetus at least two hours before an abortion is performed\u201d and requires her to sign a consent form prior to the abortion. The bill was introduced by state Rep. Joel Johnson (R) and cosponsored by 22 fellow lawmakers.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Johnson was not available for comment Wednesday, but his legislative aide, Ben Frederick, confirmed to TPM that, while the legislation does not specifically mention transvaginal ultrasounds, the bill aims to require women to undergo an ultrasound prior to receiving an abortion.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Katie Carey, a spokeswoman for Michigan\u2019s House Democratic Leader Tim Greimel, categorically said the bill would mandate transvaginal ultrasounds for women before an abortion.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because, as the vice presidential hopes of Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell last year so clearly&nbsp; showed, it&#8217;s such a political winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A transvaginal ultrasound abortion bill has been submitted in the Michigan state house: Michigan Republicans have introduced a bill requiring all women to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound before obtaining an abortion, a move that rekindles last year\u2019s firestorm when other GOP-led states were considering similar measures.The legislation introduced Tuesday in the state House ensures the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123,1020,978,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-legislation","category-politics","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183510"}],"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=183510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}