I’ll go to church to pray for your sick, warped, cowardly little soul. You are a great poster child for the failure of our educational system.

When are you going to read my public record? On more than one occasion I have introduced bills to affirm legal personhood for children before birth with the purpose of a challange to Roe. One made it to the floor of the House of Delegates despite the opposition of the Republican Leadership. That was HB 2797 in 2007. Here is the language:
“Whereas, the Constitution of Virginia provides in Article 1, §1, that all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety; now, therefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That life begins at the moment of fertilization and the right to enjoyment of life guaranteed by Article 1, § 1 of the Constitution of Virginia is vested in each born and preborn human being from the moment of fertilization.”

The bill lost 45 to 52. But it was the first ever vote in Virginia’s Assembly on the question.

We teach Virginia third graders that human life begins at fertilization.

Delegate Bob Marshall

Back to basics.

Cuccinelli does not regulate or legislate anything. The governor and the state board of health regulate health care facilities. The General Assembly legislates rules for health facilities. Virginia’s Attorney General does neither.

What does he do?

Well, lots of things. But, relevent to this, he advises state legislators about the legaility / constitutionality of possible, hypothetical legislation. In the immediate case, Cuccinelli was asked if it would be legal to increase the regulation of abortion clinics.

This wasn’t a very hard question.

in 1995, South Carolina passed a law that seems very similar to the possible, hypothetical legislation which formed the basis of the question sent to Mr. Cucconelli. The law was tested in court. A federal judge upheld the law. The US Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal without comment.

So, it seems that South Carolina’s enacted law is legal. Therefore, Mr. Cuccinelli told the Virginia legislators that a similar law passed by the general assembly or regulations enforced by the board of health would probably be legal here too.

Of course, since Mr. Cuccinelli regulates and legislates nothing he can’t do anything about the abortion clinics. Gov McDonnell could, arguably, increase the level of regulation. However, he would have to get around a state board of health still controlled by apointees from prior Democratic governors. The GA could legislate tougher standards but that would have to pass through a State Senate still controlled by the Deomcrats.

Meanwhile, we have liberals howling at the moon over Ken Cuccinelli’s very reasonable interpretation of the matter based on the South Carolina law.

How lucky for Republicans that Democrats can’t stay focused on anything of importance … like the economy for example.

If I wanted to hear from an a$$, I would have farted.

That’s about as reasonable as those “life of the mother” arguments seem to get, actually.

Having a pea sucked out of a uterist is no different than the aforementioned proceedures. An ambulatory health care regulation is mainly electrical in nature PERIOD. It is a space that requires a very complex electrical emergency generator. To have a generator of sufficient size for your house, it cost 13,000 to install. To convert an existing dental clinic, protologist procedure room and first trimester abortion clinic the cost for the specialized electrical recircuiting would be around 70,000 to 150,000 for a small practice.
no patients spend the night in such facility but people are unable to get out on their own since they may be in outpatient surgery and the doc needs to hurry up b4 the generator runs out of fuel.

The next step is hospital and I think that is self explanitory.

Just another punk a**** political stunt by someones social agenda manipulating the public by there ignorance. When you go tothe dentist in the future for a cavity and it cost you 2000 dollars, just look at that shy grin of McDonalds and that him. Enough is enough, he needs to reign in his boy a little bit and go after kiddie porns and corruption in the towing industry which financed his campaign and our gainesville supervisors.

I guess the ACLU has become a group of conservatibe zealots.

I said nothing about violence. Not a word. The US Constitution provides for two mechanisms for the amendment of that constitution. The first approach, which has been the approach always used, is for Congress to start the process with a proposed amendment.

However, there is a clearly specified second path. That path requires 2/3 of the state legislatures to call for a constitutional convention. This is completely and totally beyond the veto of the federal government. I believe the states then have to pass the new constitution by a 3/4 vote.

Could critical mass be achieved with only the threat of a state - called constitutional convention? That would take 33 states. How many will be Republican by this fall? How about two years later? How many have already enacted 10th Amendment legislation?

I think the US Congress and the administration of any president - Democrat or Republican - would get very nervous if the constitutional convention process even got started. They might decide that performing the duties required of them in the US Constitution - like enforcing the immigration laws really needed to get done. They might decide that forcing citizens into contracts with private companies is really something they can’t do.

I believe the US Supreme Court is within 2 years of deciding that same sex marriage is a right protected by the US Constitution. While I support equal rights for gay people, I don’t believe those rights are mandated (or prohibited) by the constitution in its present form. The 10th Amendment clearly specifies that any power not specifically given to the federal government or reserved to the people are the province of the states. SAme sex marriage is one of those things. And, more important than my opinion on the issue, a clear majority of Virginia voters rejected the Virginia constitutional amendment for same sex marriage. This is just another example of where I believe the federal government will, once again, over-step its rights.

Now, we have a US Congress which is despised by the majority of Americans. We have an administration which is receiving horrendously low approval ratings. We have a former administration which received horrible approval ratings.

This fall, a whole bunch of new Cuccinellis will be elected in other states.

How long will it take for critical mass around the 10th Amendment, a constitutional convention called by the states, etc?

This has nothing to do with civil war or violence. Cuccinelli and his ilk won’t need guns if Obama, Pelosi, etc keep the national government on its present course.

He thinks it is legal for the General Assembly to regulate abortion clinics (within limits).

So what?

If the liberals don’t like Cuccinelli’s interpretation of the law they should explain why he’s wrong. They should define where he has mis-interpreted the law.

A few months ago Cuccinelli opined that George Mason University’s gun ban was legal. Hardly a conservative stance. Did any liberals say, “Hey, that Cuccinelli is a fair guy!”? Not that I saw.

Liberals have two defenses to Cuccinelli’s ruling:

1. Elect politicians to the General Assembly who will pass laws restricting regulation of abortion clinics … thus rendering Cuccinelli’s opinion moot.

2. Sue the Commonwealth (and win) for passing any laws or creating any regulations which govern abortion clinics … thus proving Cuccinelli wrong.

This particular ruling is pretty insignificant.

The much bigger question is the 10th Amendment and/or states’ rights.

How many state legislatures (and governors) will be Republican after this fall’s elections?

When will the citizenry be sufficiently fed up with the federal government to demand that less power be vested in Washington and more in state capitals?

When do the states rights advocates have sufficient critical mass to force a constitutional reckoning with the federal government?

Cuccinelli is at the vanguard of a re-energized states rights movement. I think the stars might be aligned for the states to claw back many of the rights guaranteed to the states by the constitution but usurped by the federal government.

Maybe that won’t change much in Minnesota but it would sure change things here.

Tick tock liberals. Tick tock.

You say this should be addressed by the “legislature”. Did you make that same complaint to Gov. Robb?

From the Post article:

“The Board of Health regulated abortion clinics from 1981 to 1984, when former governor Charles S. Robb (D) ended the practice, according to the opinion. “

You say this should be addressed by the legislature. Did you make that same complaint to Gov. Robb?

From the Post article:

“The Board of Health regulated abortion clinics from 1981 to 1984, when former governor Charles S. Robb (D) ended the practice, according to the opinion. “