In response to the Virginia General Assembly\u2019s legislative assault on women\u2014 \u201cpersonhood\u201d and mandatory ultrasound legislation\u2014Republicans, Democrats and Independents have formed a PAC called the \u201cWomen\u2019s Strike Force.\u201d<\/a> The creation of this PAC is encouraging and suggests movement conservative politicians\u2014and the Republicans who have gotten in bed with them\u2014will not only lose their war on women<\/a>, they may lose their jobs. As its formidable name suggests, Women\u2019s Strike Force<\/a> is not messing around.<\/p>\n The Women\u2019s Strike Force PAC will concentrate its efforts on recruiting and supporting candidates to oppose any elected official who supported the recent \u201cpersonhood\u201d or mandatory ultrasound legislation. Seven of the founding members of the PAC are retired women lawmakers. They will mentor and train candidates to run against VA legislators who have demonstrated, through their voting record, that they do not respect women\u2019s right to control their own bodies. According to the PAC\u2019s website, all funds raised for the Women\u2019s Strike Force will be used to unseat every Virginia Legislator who voted in favor of HB1 (personhood law) or HB462\/SB484 (mandatory ultrasound law)<\/p>\n The creation of this non-partisan PAC demonstrates that women (and men) across the political spectrum\u2014when it comes to women’s reproductive rights\u2014will not tolerate a return to the dark ages. They are demanding that abortion services be available without having to submit to forced ultrasounds or other punishing and restrictive measures, and, they are fighting the ludicrous law that a fertilized egg, from the moment of conception, is a person. The personhood law would expose a woman to prosecution under Virginia murder laws for \u201csuspect\u201d miscarriages, and for the use of IUDs and other forms of contraception, which prevent implantation of a fertilized egg. Radical conservatives treat both zygotes and corporations as persons but are quick to deny rights to actual human beings.<\/p>\n The event that sparked the founding of the PAC was Virginia Republican delegate Dave Albo taking to the floor of the Assembly to joke with his colleagues that his vote for the ultrasound bill caused his wife to deny him sex. If Women\u2019s Strike Force is successful, he, and his friends who supported the bill, will be looking for a job.<\/p>\n