^^ Perfect timing??? They've had the opportunity for EIGHT years to make abortion illegal in every state and they didn't do it. My point is that if they really wanted this done, they would've done the eight years they were in control.
*sigh* Apparently reading comprehension isn't your friend.
They didn't implement this legislation when they had control of the government because they hadn't come up with the idea yet.
They came up with it recently and have been implementing it recently at the state level. It's up to 7 states now where legislation is in force requiring women to have an Ultrasound before obtaining an abortion.
The "perfect timing" was in reference to liberals, not conservatives. The timing of the virginia bill, with contraception fresh in the national news stream because of Obama's health care law, was such that the Virginia Bill made the national news cycle rather than being limited to Virginia. 6 other states have already managed to quietly pass this same legislation.
Please, if you're going to *try* and debate in here, work on your reading skills.
Edit: Correction, there are actually 3 more states which require ultrasounds, but 2 of those state's laws are unenforecable because they're tied up in court. They required the women to view the ultrasound image in addition to requiring the ultrasound itself and they were sued.
States which require women seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound first: Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia
States which require women seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound first, and to view the image: North Carolina (unenforcable pending court case), Oklahoma (unenforcable pending court case), Texas.
10 states (including Virginia), all of them red states, all of these laws fairly recently enacted. Please don't fucking tell us that the same GOP which has passed this legislation in TEN STATES so far doesn't want to try to pass it at the national level as well.