RICHMOND - A Republican supermajority has pushed through two of the most restrictive antiabortion bills in years in the Virginia House, including one that would all but outlaw the procedure in the state by declaring that the rights of persons apply from the moment sperm and egg unite.
Is that the same sort of thing like military force all but out of the question in Syria -- as we slink along the road of military force already in action?
The bills passed over bitter objections from Democrats. One GOP delegate caused the House to ripple when he said most abortions come as “matters of lifestyle convenience.’’
There is your difference in parties.
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Related: Women protest antiabortion bills in Virginia
I'm sorry I didn't read your national lead, ladies. Sometimes I wonder if you get tired of laboring through a media that seems to equate what you are as a women as to where you stand on the abortion issue.
Why don't you just go shopping?
"Woman gets 35 years in granddaughter’s death; Threw toddler from 6th-level mall walkway" by Matthew Barakat | Associated Press, January 07, 2012
FAIRFAX, Va. - A Virginia woman was sentenced yesterday to 35 years in prison for throwing her 2-year-old granddaughter off a sixth-level walkway at a busy shopping mall, a murder the judge called “almost beyond comprehension.’’
Carmela dela Rosa, 51, of Fairfax, offered a tearful, barely audible apology to her family, saying: “I’m very sorry for what I’ve done.’’
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In a videotaped confession, dela Rosa told police she killed Angelyn to get back at her son-in-law for getting her daughter pregnant out of wedlock and ruining her daughter’s opportunities for a better life.
Dela Rosa’s lawyer, public defender Dawn Butorac, argued unsuccessfully that dela Rosa’s mental illness - severe depression - rendered her legally insane and unable to appreciate the consequences of her actions or understand right from wrong.
Butorac said she will appeal the verdict, and said she believes the jury did not fully appreciate the depth of dela Rosa’s depression, which had gotten worse before the murder and led her to attempt suicide.
Commonwealth’s Attorney Ray Morrogh said that while it may be more comforting to believe that a grandmother must be insane to kill her grandchild in such a brutal manner, the evidence showed that dela Rosa was a hateful, spiteful, jealous woman who harbored animosity not only against her son-in-law but also at Angelyn for stealing attention away from dela Rosa.
Well, there is another word they use for that.
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Also see: Grandma Says Goodbye
Grandma Guilty of Tossing Child to Death
