I demand the Governor reject these harmful and antiwoman bills when they come across his desk.

Personhood has been struck down twice by Colorado voters in 2008 and 2010 in massive margins, and again in Mississippi in 2011. You cannot tell me this is the right thing to do for Virginia women and families.

This legislation is part of a wave of antichoice sentiment not shared by the women of Virginia. We need more access to safe care, not less. This personhood legislation stands to (int he words of its patron, Del. Marshall) outlaw abortion, and even hormonal birth contorl. Still,t he House had the chance to amend the law to not ban these types of birth control and THEY VOTED IT DOWN. They have made it clear to include FDA approved and legal birthcontrol in the parameters of this legislation.

My medically necessary birthcontrol means I can manage my life, fertility, and liberty. This legislation is big government right inside my uterus.

As for the mandated ultrasounds, I have never been a less autonomous human or American than I am right now because I am a woman in Virginia. This legislation, ushered through and signed into law by men, is the pinnacle of sexist and invasive governing I have ever seen. Substituting the govenment's moral judgement for a doctor's medically judgement is bad governing. The government is trying to draw a line and see who is "deserving" enough to undergo an abortion. Who is willing to jumpt hrough the most, and costly, hoops? The blantant disregard for science, marginalized women, and privacy is staggering. These are the harshest fertility policing laws almost in the books inour nation's history and I am broken to my core that my Commonwealth deems me unable to take care of myself because I am a woman.

I'm a lifetime Virginian who was proud to call myself such. DO NOT pass this harmful legislation and further polarize Virginia on partisan lines. The entire country is watching.