If so, I'd love to see it.  Thanks.

We originally tossed the letter in the trash with the rest of Tim Hugo's garbage.

If you vote to outlaw abortion, don't you by definition turn the women who have them and the doctors who perform them into criminals?  The question is what the legal penalties will be. But nobody makes a law without a means to enforce it.

Judging from past laws, before Roe v Wade, doctors did indeed go to jail if they performed abortion.  And they lost their licenses.  That was why so many refused to do the procedure even though it is relatively safe. 

That is also what drove women to seek abortions from back alley hacks.

Although women were never prosecuted or put in jail (the crime was providing the abortion, not seeking it), many lost their lives or suffered grave physical injury at the hands of unlicensed, unskilled abortionists.

As for laws that make it hard for minors to get an abortion without parental consent, one of the problems is that some teenagers who get pregnant are the victims of sexual abuse.  And the abusing adult is often a parent or step parent; so, the girl would be forced to go to her abuser for permission to abort his child.

The unintended consequences for women is enormous. The only reason people are not more alarmed by those who seek this legislation is because they have failed to advance their agenda so many times that people have grown complacent.  They think a woman's right to choose is safe.

All I can say is you never know what you've lost until it's gone.  And that includes your freedom.

But don't expect an answer from Paula or Tim on this one.  And don't expect an answer from Ken Cuccinelli about his opposition to life-saving stem cell research, as opposed to the kind that doesn't do anything.  And don't expect an answer from Corey Stewart about how high he's planning to raise taxes in Prince William county to pay for his "crackdown" on illegal immigrants.  And don't expect an answer from Jill Holtzman Vogel about why she is bashing gays and Muslims in the closing days of her campaign.  And don't expect an answer from Tricia Stall about why she is bashing gays int he closing days of her campaign.  And don't expect an answer from...well, you get the idea.  Ha.

Hugo supported the dangerous HR 2797, which was discussed in a previous diary.  Hugo's vote is at: http://www.richmonds...
This is the RK diary on the subject.  http://www.raisingka...

In my last comment in that diary, I cited an NYT article that sheds light on what I think HR2797 was really intended to do -- ban many forms of birth control that arguably have some post-fertilization effect (i.e., preventing implantation). http://www.nytimes.c...  The pill and the IUD arguably may have some of those post-fertilization effects -- so I guess one could still use the condom and the diaphragm. 

The HR 2797 bill was so misguided that it could arguably have banned breast feeding if one desired to resume unprotected sex.  That is because breast feeding also has contraceptive effects post-fertilization:

What's more, Dr. Trussell added: "There is evidence that there is a contraceptive effect of breast feeding after fertilization. While a woman is breast feeding, the first ovulation is characterized by a short luteal phase, or second half of the cycle. It's thought that because of that, implantation does not occur." In other words, if the emergency contraception pill [can be said to] cause[] abortions by blocking implantation, then by the same definition breast feeding may as well.

I had to bracket that last sentence -- one really has to read the NYT article to evaluate the argument being advanced by wingnuts -- that pregnancy starts at fertilization.  The medical community largely says it starts at implantation. 

According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, however, pregnancy begins not at fertilization but at implantation. The medical thinking behind this definition has to do with the fact that implantation is the moment when a woman's body begins to nurture the fertilized egg. The roughly one-half of all fertilized eggs that never attach to a uterine wall are thus not generally considered to be tiny humans - ensouled beings - that died but rather fertilized eggs that did not turn into pregnancies. Federal regulations enacted during the Bush administration agree with this, stating, "Pregnancy encompasses the period of time from implantation until delivery."

Note: I'm no expert in this area so feel free to contradict.

However, it is clear to me this is just another way for the Puritans to enforce their fear and hatred of sex on others by making legal contraception more difficult.  Incidentally, 97% of Catholic women above the age of 18 have used a doctrinally forbidden form of contraception, the same as the general population.  http://www.catholics...

What is really quite interesting is that I received a letter from both Jay O'Brien's wife and this one from Paula Hugo on the same day. As I pointed out in a post over on my blog, I think the individual letters might have been effective but they also lost any effectiveness when they were so very similar and were sent out on the same day.

I talked to an 81 year old lady who was also on the OBrien GOTV list, because she had gotten one of their door hangers.  When we talked, she told me she was for Barker, and that she worked at the polls.

She said she got a letter from "Mrs O'Brien" today, and she said it was "just awful"!!!  I loved it.

She was my 81-year old hero!

http://talkingpoints...  67% of adults say they approve of schools providing birth control (37% would require parental consent, 30% would not require such consent).

Interesting that he notes the names of his four children on his website and the letter sent by his wife has their home addres on it.

makes the decision for themself to put out their own information. The reason people were complaining about JMDD's ad was because she made the decision for Chap to send his home phone number and address out to thousands of people.

Completely different situation here.

No.  If abortion were to become illegal, the doctors would be the ones facing criminal sanctions, not women.

Democrats try this every year, right before the election. It never works. (Sure--plenty of Dems win those races, but not on this).  Chuck Robb most famously, perhaps.

What's wrong with that letter?  Its a pretty effective piece of lit. 

Not so much.  It's just another piece of campaign lit, which got torn up and trashed.  That said, Tim Hugo is a decent guy, with a decent family, and INdecent votes which prove he is a but a follower of the R's misleadership.