It’s Cuccinelli’s way — or the highway!
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Attorney General (and gubernatorial hopeful) Ken Cuccinelli has some strong words for members of the Virginia Board of Health. Basacially it’s this: They better regulate abortion clinics the way he says to. Otherwise, the attorney general’s office won’t defend them and they’ll have to hire their own lawyer.
What has excited the Cooch’s uncharacteristically pro-regulation fervor? It all goes back to 2011, when some canny parliamentarians in the Virginia General Assembly took an innocuous bill and amended it late in the game to subject abortion clinics to the same building regulations as hospitals. They got it passed by a single vote.
The law required the Board of Health to write those regulations. But when it did, it made them applicable only to new abortion clinics.
Existing abortion clinics were grandfathered, so they wouldn’t have to make changes that could cost a lot of money, or be forced to close (which is the actual intent of the lawmakers who passed the bill).
This has outraged Cuccinelli and Gov. Bob McDonnell. Read Cuccinelli’s letter here.
It’s his way, or the highway!
I wonder if he feels that way about other building-standards regulations?
September 13, 2012 - 12:16 PM
Just another republican that can’t stand the fact that experts don’t agree with them…..IDIOT
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Get used to this type of thing…it`ll help strengthen your spines.
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Hokie Lover was most recently posting as Jeff Doto.
One ID per poster, please.
Is it me or are we getting the really lower order RW thinkers around here lately. Jony might even shine here these days.
Jeff Doto is seriously disturbed and seriously disturbing. Does the right wing not own a mirror?
Why should abortion clinics be held to the same standards as hospitals? After all, these are just women.
#4 Gosh, Dolto, it was almost impossible to tell you had posted with another identity.
Earning your names — Dolto and Dodo
Kristen@1:30
Nah! He still pukes on the Blue Ridge caucus from time to time. The same old ignorant racist BS.
Kenny the Kowering Kowboy is still trying to bully his way into the Governor’s mansion with his antiscience, antiwomen,antifederal government, antiintellectual, antienvironment discredited nullificationist
philosophy that went out with that other infamous KKK of the long ago south.
#8 Go ahead and explain to us, Henry, why these clinics would need hallways as wide as a hospital. We’ll wait for your answer.
Yawn.
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and I am not dolto or dodo.
Also, we just need to ignore the LIFE part and just go with LIBERTY and PURSUIT of happiness. Although, once a mother has an abortion, she usually has terrible regret and suffers depression. So, she not only didn’t give the LIFE part to her child, she has a rough time with HAPPINESS.
All you have left then is LIBERTY which means, “RIGHT TO CHOOSE”.
However, the dead baby didn’t get to CHOOSE its fate.
So now all three principals are out the window.
Oh yes Henry, every woman in Virginia knows it is only them the right wingers are looking out for! What a damnable joke!
by the way, I read thru Ken’s memo, and find it to be spot-0n.
Jeff Doto, you have my condolences on the relatively recent passing of your mother and brother.
Being reminded by such milestones that time’s march is relentless, and that the wider world won’t agree to be more like small town Radford of the last century, must be presenting extra challenges for you. And it must certainly add to your family’s sense of loss to have to pay the “death tax”, which, if that label is accurate must mean it applies to anyone who dies, instead of an “estate” tax which applies only to those estates worth five million dollars or more.
But shucks, why wouldn’t that label be accurate, since it’s even used by a self-described “unemployed” “severe conservative” like Mitt Rmoney? He’s an unemployed severe conservative, isn’t he? After all, he says he is when he enlists your support…
I didn’t realize hallway width was the only difference in the building requirements.
Hooray for Cuccinelli, hopefully a future governor.
Quite alright, Gdud….nobody cars what you think…go to your room and play with your obama decoder ring…Meanwhile, the rest of us will concentrate on the DISMAL ECONOMY…IT IS IN THE TANK !
Oh no not the same standards as hospitals! How dare they try to protect women by making clinics safer!!! I just checked outside and the sky is not falling. As always have a nice day!
PS
2016 is a must see!
Andrew Bourne, I second the notion…hooray for Cooch! He WILL be our next governor!
Kudos to Jeff Doto…your “gdud” is great!