It must be Wednesday, because Virginia's hyperactive Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli, isback in the news. Of course, he was also in the news on Tuesday, on Monday, and last Friday. Religious displays on public land, abortion, immigration, climate change. Is there a single issue from the culture wars over which Cuccinelli hasn't picked a fight? But that's one of the perils of treating one's elected office like a Fox News show: If Cuccinelli isn't launching five national ideological battles per week, his ratings might slip. And so ever onward he trudges, devoting his every working day to treating the Commonwealth like it's the Lord's Disneyland.
And don't forget this bit of SC legislative genius:
The effort to make abortions less available by regulating clinics out of existence is hardly a new one. As Nicole Allan points out, this is part of an effort by abortion foes to "shift from targeting the legality of the procedure to applying pressure on its providers." These so-called TRAP (or Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) laws, reports Think Progress, include a "law in Mississippi [that] requires that the abortion facility be located in an 'attractive' setting" and another, in South Carolina, requiring that abortions be performed only in facilities that keep their outside areas "free of grass that might serve as a haven for insects."
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