Virginia Law on Women's Rights: Forbidden by the Constitution

Article 1, the most detailed and specific enumeration of Congress' powers, says simply in Section 9 that "No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed."

What part of this do our legislators not understand?

A bill of attainder is any law passed to regulate, impose or criminalize any specific person or group of persons. They do it all the time, and I have never read anywhere where it is called what it is — an outrage against the written law.

Legislators cannot pass a law about pregnant women and cannot approve a law like they did against Terri Schiavo. The state of Virginia passed a bill in both houses that demands invasive vaginal probings for women making a choice. The Shiavo matter refers to the attempt by Congress to interfere in a family decision regarding a brain dead, comatose woman in Florida.

That law was not signed into law, but it is a measure of how invasive ex post facto laws are. It happens all of the time and should be stopped by the congressional staff who surely reads the U.S. Constitution, sometimes.