Virginia lawmaker says she wouldn’t have co-sponsored controversial abortion bill if she had read it closely

I make no statement regarding the law itself (which allows for abortion up to the moment of birth), but “oops, I didn’t bother to read the law I co-sponsored” really aught to be the sort of thing that should cause an elected official to suddenly enter the private sector.

A proposal: every law must be read IN IT’S ENTIRETY by the sponsors on the floor of the legislature. Other lawmakers are allowed to butt in at any time to ask relevant questions about the text that has just been read. Only those lawmakers who are present *and* *awake* for a minimum of 75% of the reading will be allowed to vote on the bill. Anyone who doesn’t put in the time will register “abstain” when the vote is counted. If it takes (handwave) two minutes to read each page, then those 2,000page monstrocities – taking 2.8 solid days to read if there are no interruptions – should become a thing of the past.

BONUS ROUND:

Here is the governor of Virginia (Ralph Northam – D) saying that the law would allow for babies to be delivered and *then* “aborted.” Yeah-huh. Fourth trimester abortions. Totally cool. Not at all infanticide.