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The Kentucky Senate passed a bill 32-4 that would require doctors to show a woman an ultrasound image of her fetus and explain how it is developing before performing an abortion.  The patient would be allowed to “avert her eyes,” according to the report by Courier-Journal.com.  The bill now goes to the House, where similar bills have died in the past.

The Texas Senate last year backed off a bill that would have required that women seeking abortion be given both an ultrasound picture and a recording of the fetus’ heartbeat but did pass a bill requiring that doctors offer ultrasound to such women.  The bill never made it to the floor of the Texas House.  Eleven state legislatures are considering bills that would require doctors to perform or offer to perform ultrasounds before abortion procedures.

Meanwhile, Tim Tebow’s name has popped up in the abortion debate.  Over protests, CBS has approved a 30-second ad for the Super Bowl by Focus on the family Family in which Pam Tebow talks about how her strapping Heisman-winning boy almost wound up a mere concept.  Doctors told her her fetus had been damaged by medications she took when she fell ill during a trip to the Philippines and recommended abortion.  The fetus, of course, went on to set passing and rushing records at the University of Florida.

Will they bring a fast train? President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are scheduled for a town hall meeting in Tampa, Florida, the day after the president’s State of the Union address this week, and Florida officials hope that means some announcement about the state’s fast-train hopes.  Florida is seeking $2.5 billion  for a high-speed rail line connecting Orlando and Tampa.  But there’s competition.  North Carolina is seeking $5.7 billion to build out its fast-train network from Charlotte through Raleigh to Richmond. Virginia is picking up a plan for getting the train from Richmond to Washington.

Metaphor, analogy, whatever: South Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer says he regrets comparing poor people to stray dogs, if he did.  Bauer , who is running for governor, told The State he regretted the remarks “because now it’s being used as an analogy, not a metaphor” and that his intent was to explain the government is “breeding a culture of dependency” with its social programs.  One of his opponents, state Sen. Vincent Sheheen, called the remarks “immoral and out of line.”  (Gita Smith wonders:  Did the Devil make him do it?)

More trouble Tea-ing up: Another sponsor of the Tea Party convention scheduled for next month in Nashville, Tennessee, has pulled out. Philip Glass, the national director of the National Precinct Alliance, announced that “amid growing controversy” around the convention, his organization would no longer participate in the convention, or conduct the seminars it had planned there.  So far, Sarah Palin is still set to deliver the keynote address.

Dew Droplets: Eight Haitians being treated aboard the USS Bataan out of Norfolk, Virginia, joined the crew in its weekly karaoke night … TVA is trying to get rid of cats roaming its reservation near Muscle Shoals, Alabama … Georgia gubernatorial candidate John Oxendine wants access to the Tennessee River as a way of solving Georgia’s water woes … In Louisiana, inmates in the Livingston Parish Detention Center would have to pay full price for their own doctor and dental services under a proposal by Parish President Mike Grimmer … Alabama State Treasurer Kay Ivey brought her Republican gubernatorial campaign to a gun show in Montgomery last week … Chattanooga, Tennessee,  is among 11 cities in five states that will build and test charging stations for Nissan’s all-electric Leaf through a $99.8 million federal grant … In tribute to the New Orleans Saints, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal proclaimed this week as “Who Dat Nation Week.”

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