Romney saying he would sign it is different than the assembly passing it. He wants to be taken seriously in the 08 Republican primaries. No one soft on choice need apply.
There are now 10 states have bills (introduced or carried over this session) that would ban abortion or trigger abortion bans if Roe were overturned.
Those states are: GA, IN, KY, MO, MS, OH, OK, SD, TN, WV.
It's been introduced here in OH, but thank god the majority leader killed it. Though if it got enough publicity they'd bring it back out. BTw, USA Today ripped SD a new one about their ban. This is ridiculous. I also spent all morning in health committee hearings because here the want to let pharmacists refuse to fill EC and birth control on "moral grounds" because apparently only the wackos are "moral."
I'm confused. I don't think I understood your comment. Did you say either you can have abortion and ban contraception or you can ban abortion and have contraception?
I didn't mean "ban contraception" so much as the whole pharmacists refusing thing. If you don't want people having abortion you better give them contraception. They ain't gonna stop fuckin.
Oh, I agree. But these are the crazies that believe even though up to 50% of fertilized zygotes abort naturally, life still begins and fertilization. So even the slight possiblity that BC prevents implantation (even the FDA says at this point that's not what BC and EC do) is the end of a life.
The particular person who testified this morning also believed in capital punishment. Because criminals aren't "innocent" but fetuses are. Someone should have asked him if he believed in original sin.
right. and then all the smart, sex-having, abortion loving swingers will move here with their fun times and disposable income while the south and midwest collapse under the weight of poverty and millions and millions of babies. then, when they are at their weakes, we will swoop in and snatch up all of their sweet, sweet corn and tobacco.
the biggest problem with the death of roe would not be abortion. It would be the erosion of privacy rights. This is something that a lot of people (gays, anyone who enjoys oral sex or s&m) don't want to happen. This means that people can start legislating sexuality again. It's fair game. I don't know about you, but that scares the crap out of me.
Oh, in other random crazy right wing news, I had to love that a commenatator on NPR totally called the Bush Admin on the fear thing. That they have trained people to respond in fear to the Arabs so it's no wonder that the country freaked out about the ports thing. That was a totally unrelated comment. :)
I'm the same in that it would be difficult for me to care less what South Dakota wanted to make legal or illegal because I have little intention of ever spending more time within the state's borders than it might take me to drive across a highway that happens to run through it.
However, this clearly isn't just a local issue. This has been planned for a long time by people (most of whom live outside of South Dakota) who aspire to force their restrictive views on the entire country. I do have a problem with that.
We Canadians will be happy to kill American babies for you if your own service providers are no longer operating. They form our fourth largest food-export, after all.
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Date: 2006-03-01 09:11 pm (UTC)well, its on, i guess, at least.
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Date: 2006-03-01 09:27 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-03-01 09:45 pm (UTC)Those states are: GA, IN, KY, MO, MS, OH, OK, SD, TN, WV.
It's been introduced here in OH, but thank god the majority leader killed it. Though if it got enough publicity they'd bring it back out. BTw, USA Today ripped SD a new one about their ban. This is ridiculous. I also spent all morning in health committee hearings because here the want to let pharmacists refuse to fill EC and birth control on "moral grounds" because apparently only the wackos are "moral."
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Date: 2006-03-01 09:59 pm (UTC)The particular person who testified this morning also believed in capital punishment. Because criminals aren't "innocent" but fetuses are. Someone should have asked him if he believed in original sin.
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Date: 2006-03-01 10:38 pm (UTC)whether or not the bills pass :)
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Date: 2006-03-02 01:00 am (UTC)all us free-wheeling, care-free, blue-staters are already paying for all the extra babies in the red states.
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Date: 2006-03-02 01:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 10:01 pm (UTC)Oh, in other random crazy right wing news, I had to love that a commenatator on NPR totally called the Bush Admin on the fear thing. That they have trained people to respond in fear to the Arabs so it's no wonder that the country freaked out about the ports thing. That was a totally unrelated comment. :)
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Date: 2006-03-02 04:22 am (UTC)However, this clearly isn't just a local issue. This has been planned for a long time by people (most of whom live outside of South Dakota) who aspire to force their restrictive views on the entire country. I do have a problem with that.
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