"Wisconsin abortion law requires ultrasound" by Todd Richmond | Associated Press, July 06, 2013
MADISON, Wis. — Governor Scott Walker quietly signed a contentious Republican bill Friday that would require women seeking abortions to undergo an ultrasound and ban doctors who lack admitting privileges at nearby hospitals from performing the procedures....
The Republican-controlled Legislature passed the bill in mid-June. Walker, a Republican, could have chosen to sign it at any time since then but decided to do it on Friday in the middle of the long Fourth of July holiday weekend. The measure’s opponents accused him of trying to bury news of the signing....
That's why we call it Slow Saturday. It is a well-known fact that Saturday is the day of least circulation for newspapers, and when the public is least likely to be paying attention. By Monday (hopefully), story gone.
Walker did not sign the bill in public; he issued a press release in the afternoon with the bill in a list of 17 other measures he signed earlier in the day....
That's almost as bad as putting it out on a website on the 3rd.
And what about those other measures. They not important?
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