The Problem With Boycotting Georgia
The Problem With Boycotting Georgia Slate 2 hrs ago © Provided by Slate Illustration by Slate. Photo by Getty Images Plus. In the spring of 2012, Virginia’s General Assembly passed a bill that required women throughout the Commonwealth to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound procedure before they were allowed to terminate a pregnancy. That law set off a massive national furor, because despite framing that suggested the procedure was medically indicated (it wasn’t), the law was mainly just another means of embarrassing and violating women as part of a programmatic series of unnecessary â...