Georgia Senate Republicans Punish Women, Everyone
Some senators last week approved truly terrible legislation, including bills that require welfare applicants to pass a drug test, prohibit the state employees' health insurance plan from covering abortion services, and prohibit picketers from protesting labor disputes outside the homes of corporate executives. And that's just a sampling.Face it. Republicans hate people. And they want to mess with their lives-- stop them from doing all sorts of things they want to do and make them do all sorts of things they don't want to do. Understand this: These folks are the American Taliban. They want to take us back to 1952 or maybe 2 a.d.
-- Creative Loafing Atlanta, 15-21 March, 2012, p. 12
You know there’s an old Irish saying," Biden said. "There’s all kinds of old Irish sayings. At least my Grandfather Finnegan, I think he made them up, but it says, may the hinges of our friendship never go rusty. Well, with these two folks that you’re about to meet, if you haven’t already, there’s no doubt about them staying oiled and lubricated here. Ladies and gentlemen -- (now, for you who are not full Irish in this room, lubricating has a different meaning for us all).
During a speech at a manufacturing plant in New Hampshire, Biden slipped into an Indian accent briefly while speaking about US job loss and call centers abroad, before pulling out, perhaps aware of the kerfuffle he had caused some months back, when he was caught on an open microphone remarking that "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking".-- http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-01-28/us/30673187_1_indian-accent-hindu-gods-rajan-zed
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This "war on women" argument is very unfortunate. It's false, and it's been the political theater for the Democrats for the past couple of months.A fetal personhood bill would have granted the fetus status as a person; had it passed, it would have criminalized abortion. It passed the House of Delegates, but was fortunately tabled by the Senate until next year.
A bill requiring an invasive transvaginal ultrasound procedure passed both houses and was signed by Governor McDonnell. The bill "requires a woman undergoing an abortion to have a"'transvaginal ultrasound"-- i.e. to require a doctor to insert a speculum and then an ultrasound probe into her vagina against her will and reflect that image onscreen.-- http://www.thefrisky.com/2012-02-15/virginia-advances-anti-abortion-fetal-personhood-and-transvaginal-ultrasound-bills/
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| "My credentials as a Chicago politician are impeccable. I was indicted, after all!" |
We did not have a terrorist act on our country during President Bush's term.This was unbelievable! I mean, there was this little thing called 9-11, when terrorists flew two jetliners into the World Trade Center, another into the Pentagon, and crashed a fourth into a field in Pennsylvania. And there were the anthrax letters.There were the Beltway sniper attacks. And of course there was the shoe bomber.
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| Terri Proud always wanted to be on a bandwagon |
Personally I'd like to make a law that mandates a woman watch an abortion being performed prior to having a "surgical procedure". If it's not a life it shouldn't matter, if it doesn't harm a woman then she shouldn't care, and don't we want more transparency and education in the medical profession anyway? We demand it everywhere else.Erm, Terri, the fact that that dead child can't talk should be telling you something.
Until the dead child can tell me that she/he does not feel any pain - I have no intentions of clearing the conscience of the living - I will be voting YES.
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| First in the hot seat is State Senator Chuck Winder of Idaho |
Rape and incest was used as a reason to oppose this. I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape.This is unbelievable. Winder first insults and demeans women by insinuating they are liars and then justifies marital rape
Really? Seriously? Does he honestly believe a woman, who has gone through the gut-wrenching, emotional, spiritual turmoil to come to the decision to have an abortion would also want to "fake," "lie," or "pretend" that she had also been violently, physically, sexually, mentally, and emotionally violated by some misogynist poor excuse for humanity so she could could subject herself not only to the guilt, pain, and shame many will heap upon her (in 2012?) for the abortion, but also for the "perceived rape or incest?"
Does he not know how difficult it is even in 2012 for a woman to come forward about being raped BECAUSE idiots like him think they are making it up?
And he thinks we're too stupid to know the difference between a loving, sexual act and a violent, physical assault? I can't believe there are still idiots who believe that. I guess date rape, and marital rape, and incest don't exist either.She says it better than I could.
