{"id":782,"date":"2012-02-28T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.council.nyc\/press\/?p=782"},"modified":"2016-12-12T18:46:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T18:46:27","slug":"statement-by-speaker-christine-c-quinn-re-virginia-state-senate-bill-requiring-women-to-undergo-ultrasounds-before-an-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2012\/02\/28\/782\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Speaker Christine C. Quinn Re: Virginia State Senate Bill Requiring Women to Undergo Ultrasounds Before an Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m appalled with the Virginia State Senate\u2019s passage of a bill that would subject women seeking abortions to an invasive and unnecessary procedure prior to receiving medical assistance. Forcing women to undergo an ultrasound before an abortion is performed is nothing less than a blatant attempt to undermine the freedom of a woman\u2019s right to choose. The government should not be in the business of regulating women\u2019s bodies and decisions made in consultation with medical professionals. This bill is an infringement on women\u2019s rights and I urge Governor McDonnell to immediately reject this proposal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>##<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m appalled with the Virginia State Senate\u2019s passage of a bill that would subject women seeking abortions to an invasive and unnecessary procedure prior to receiving medical assistance. Forcing women to undergo an ultrasound before an abortion is performed is nothing less than a blatant attempt to undermine the freedom of a woman\u2019s right to choose. The government should not be in the business of regulating women\u2019s bodies and decisions made in consultation with medical professionals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2012\/02\/28\/782\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}