Tag: Abortion

Could This Be The Way Of The Future?

The Radical Right has got to be jumping up and down…..this story could lead to legislation in those lame Red States…….(about now some will be scratching their heads and asking ‘huh’?)

Let me explain……..

On Monday, 33-year-old Purvi Patel became the first US woman to be “charged, convicted, and sentenced for the crime of feticide for having attempted to end her own pregnancy,” according to a press release issued by National Advocates for Pregnant Women. In its report, the Washington Post notes that while the 20-year sentence she is due to serve “brought an end to Patel’s trial … it may be only the beginning of the public debate about the details of her case.” The case began in July 2013, when Patel went to St. Joseph Hospital in Mishawaka, Indiana, bleeding and with a protruding umbilical cord, a doctor testified. Patel later revealed that she had a miscarriage and had left the fetus, which she says was stillborn, in a dumpster. Prosecutors argued the baby was born alive, hence the child neglect charge.

The feticide charge (which PRI frames as “normally used against those who harm pregnant women”) was based on text messages Patel sent indicating she had taken drugs purchased from China in an attempt to abort her fetus, reports the AP; tests showed no such drugs in her or the fetus, however. She was in February found guilty on both counts, though many have argued the two charges were “legally contradictory.” PRI reports that the gestational age of the fetus was fiercely debated at the trial. Her defense argued it was at most 24 weeks old, and would not have survived even with medical intervention; NBC News reports prosecutors argued she was 25 weeks along in their opening statement, and the aforementioned doctor testified that he thought the fetus was as many as 30 weeks. Patel indicated she would appeal. (In Indiana, a man was charged with attempted feticide after police say he spiked a woman’s drink with special herbs.)

I am not going to go into some diatribe on abortion……I will leave that to the more rabid of readers…….all I am saying that this could well be a factor in conservative politics in some states……

Right now all the d/bags are drooling over the Menendez thing and of course the Indiana situation….maybe they will not notice…….but do not be surprised if this comes back in an election cycle…….would make for great sound bites for one of those “also rans”…….

The Strict Abortion Ban That Abortion Foes Fear | Mother Jones

We have a new Congress but the same types of people that will run the country…..I weep for our future.  I was duly surprised to hear that the GOP lead Congress would offer up an abortion bill……Okay that is a lie….I do enjoy being a smart ass……

The new bill is so much crap that even some anti-abortion people will oppose it……read it and enjoy……

 

The Strict Abortion Ban That Abortion Foes Fear | Mother Jones.

Reproductive Rights: Return To Crap!

Now that we have a GOP controlled Congress some old issues will be in the firing field again…….of course if you speak with a Right wing mental titan (that is sarcasm in case you missed it) they will try to dress you down for even considering that there is a major push on the rights of women……and they will be forceful in their condemnation of such an accusation……

Congress will be zeroing in on reproductive rights of women…..and here are the attacks to watch……

 

Seven Reproductive Rights Issues to Watch in 2015.

Women’s News

I am an opinionated SOB and I like it……but I do not post much on issue that concern women….not that I do not care ….just I am male and I do not feel that I have the expertise to comment without sounding a little naive…….I do hope my female readers will forgive me and understand….

But from time to time there are some news that I just cannot back away from….today are a couple of those issues……

First, there is the idiot on the Right….I know that does not narrow the field very much so I will name names…Ann Coulter….this is a woman, and I use the term loosely, that just cannot shut the Hell up…….her newest babble is on the issue of rape……..

Coulter dismissed the notion of date or acquaintance rape out of hand, insisting that unless a victim gets “hit on the head with a brick,” it isn’t a legitimate rape.

“People know what a rape is,” Coulter insisted, “and to have girls trying to get attention — from Lena Dunham to this poor psychotic at UVA, Lady Gaga claiming she was raped but she didn’t admit it to herself for five years. What major crime do people say, ‘I didn’t admit it to myself?’”

In a second part of the interview, the 53-year-old pundit said that liberals are vastly overplaying instances of campus rape, which, in her experience is generally perpetrated by liberal men like the “Clintons and Kennedys,” anyway.

Oh there is so much ugliness I could spread about Coulter….but I will refrain and allow my readers to do it at their leisure……

Second….there will always be a Right wing legislator that, usually male, that has a “good” idea when it comes to rape…..and this guy is NOT one of those people….instead he is a galloping a/hole….if anything………

A bill proposed by a Republican state lawmaker in Missouri would require a woman seeking an abortion to obtain notarized consent from the baby’s father, even if he is physically abusive toward her.

The bill’s sponsor, State Rep. Rick Brattin, told Mother Jones that while the bill has exceptions for rape victims and to protect the life of the mother, women in domestic violence situations are not exempt from having to ask the father’s permission. “What does that have to do with the child’s life?” Brattin said. “Just because it was an abusive relationship, does that mean the child should die?”

In explaining the bill to Mother Jones, Brattin channeled Todd Akin, the former Republican congressman from Missouri who, during a failed 2012 Senate bid, said that women who are victims of “legitimate rape” have mechanisms in their bodies that prevent them from getting pregnant. Brattin said his bill would require a woman to be able to prove that a “legitimate rape” happened in order to avoid having to ask for a man’s consent for the abortion.

“Just like any rape, you have to report it, and you have to prove it,” said Brattin. “So you couldn’t just go and say, ‘Oh yeah, I was raped,’ and get an abortion. It has to be a legitimate rape.”

Okay….a legit rape?  Old white guys are the most pathetic of Americans……they are stuck somewhere between the 18th century and 1950……

When this d/bag passes a bowling ball through his penis…then only then may he have a right to speak.  PERIOD!

A Win In Mississippi?

From time to time I will write about situations in my state, Mississippi…….it has always been a poor state and in my opinion it is poor for one reason and one reason only……conservative politics.

Awhile back Mississippians voted down the personhood BS of the GOP….that was a win and then the ultra-conservs set about making it impossible for any abortion clinics to remain open by using a tactic of “emitting privileges”……it worked along with some “standards” that are not required by any other medical clinic….again trying desperately to close the one remaining abortion clinic in the state……but with all this effort by the conservs someone crapped on their parade…….

(Newser) – A law that would have forced the only abortion clinic in Mississippi to close appears doomed after a federal court ruled against it once again. An appeals court panel decided 2-1 that State House Bill 1390, which requires abortion providers to have admitting privileges at local hospitals, would shift Mississippi’s constitutional obligations onto other states by forcing the Jackson clinic to close, CNN reports. “Pre-viability, a woman has the constitutional right to end her pregnancy by abortion,” but the law “effectively extinguishes that right within Mississippi’s borders,” the judges wrote.

The court didn’t strike down the law itself, but “I think the way they ruled on those arguments essentially dooms the law,” a constitutional law expert tells Jackson’s Clarion-Ledger. He describes the ruling as a huge victory for the Jackson clinic, where doctors had been denied admitting privileges by all seven hospitals within a 30-minute drive. Gov. Phil Bryant—who said he wanted the state to be “abortion-free” when he signed the bill into law—says he’s disappointed by the ruling and wants the case to go in front of the entire court instead of a “divided panel of judges.” A similar law goes into effect in Louisiana on Sept. 1, and legal experts believe it won’t face the same issues as the Mississippi law because at least one of the state’s five abortion clinics will be able to remain open, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports.

But never fear…..the Right is NOT finished…..I am sure they will find yet another BS issue to use to try and close that one remaining clinic…..but for now…..it is a victory for choice.

So Now I Am A Nazi! Go Figure!

In my years of activism and radical political thought I have been called many things….a pinko, a commie, a bastard, etc etc…..but the one I have missed I all those years was…….a Nazi.  I figured that with my political views I could eliminate that one as an insult to my beliefs……but I was mistaken!  I am officially a NAZI!

First, I am pro-choice and I know that some of my readers are not……I seldom debate the value of either because no matter how much we twist and shout….our opinions on the subject will stay the same and in these exchanges tempers flair and stuff is said that should not have been said……..I respect my friends that are pro-life and I would hope that they will respect my views also…..

With that said, I am officially a NAZI!  I know….I know….why would I say that?  It was not me that says that but a person on the Right…….

Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber, at least, has been very open about this.  Just a few weeks ago, he plainly stated that those who support marriage equality or a reproductive rights are “on the wrong side of history” and “advocating things that are equally as horrific” as what the Nazis did.

But just in case that wasn’t clear enough, Barber followed it up today with a another Bonhoeffer/Nazi comparison where he explicitly stated that he is comparing those who support a woman’s right to choose to the Nazis

Let’s be very clear here. What we’re talking about here is, as we’ve long called it, an abortion holocaust. Are we comparing the pro-choice movement to the Nazi movement? Yes! Absolutely.

In recent weeks we talked about how the pro-life movement really embraces the mantle of Dietrich Bonhoeffer …This is the modern-day anti-holocaust movement; the pro-life movement is.

And, you know, I was, a few months ago, in the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC and I was taken by how the arguments that the Nazis made in order to dehumanize the Jews are the same arguments that we hear coming from the so-called pro-choice movement to dehumanize the unborn child.

There you have it….it is official!  According to Barber I am a NAZI!

I try to avoid using insulting language to describe one of my political opponents…..and I will take the high ground here and only say…..if his IQ ever makes it to 80 he should sell!

Amendment 26

In the past I have written much and some have even said that I have been bad-mouthing Mississippi…..I guess I can see their points but I live in the state and have worked for the state and who better than me to write about the state?

This will be a post on abortion……there are many ways to debate the position whether pro or con…….I am not debating about the act of abortion whether good or bad…..I am talking about a new amendment that is being offered up to the people as an amendment to the state constitution……..

My daughter first brought this to my attention and thought I should write about it but I was hesitant…..for I believe that the act is a personal decision and therefore none of anybody’s business……but this new amendment has misogynist written all over it….and that is why that I decided to post on it….that and the fact that some mental midget came by my house and did everything but physically attack me because of my stand…..

This is the wording of the amendment……

Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Mississippi: SECTION 1. Article III of the constitution of the state of Mississippi is hereby amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION TO READ: Section 33. Person defined. As used in this Article III of the state constitution, “The term ‘person’ or ‘persons’ shall include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the functional equivalent thereof.” This initiative shall not require any additional revenue for implementation.

So are these people saying cloning of humans is acceptable?

Now here is the staff of the 26 effort……

Brad Prewitt, Executive Director – brad@yeson26.net – (662) 401-3431

Greg Sanders, Deputy Executive Director – greg@yeson26.net – (662) 523-6722

Jacob Dawson, Media/Website/Mail Coordinator – jacob@yeson26.net

Field Directors:

Phillip Morris, Northeast MS Field Director – phillip@yeson26.net – (662) 538-3422

Reid Guy, Central MS Field Director – reid@yeson26.net – (601) 506-3660

Rev. Joseph Parker, African-American Coordinator and Campaign Chaplain – jparker@afr.net – (662) 260-9123

Corey Ruffin, South MS Field Director – corey@yeson26.net – (601) 433-1130

I hate to be a downer….but where are the women leaders that feel this is a great idea?

Even Maddow of MSNBC has taken on this subject…..watch her segment…..it gets to the amendment after a while…….http://on.msnbc.com/nSfpo1

Now there are a lot of things that need to be addressed for the state of Mississippi like education, health care, poverty…….many things…… pick a list of states…..Mississippi is almost always at the top of bad situations and the bottom of good situations….so sorry but this is NOT something that needs to be addressed at this time…..and the politicians that are all for this amendment would be all for a pro choice one if it would help them get elected……

Remember these are the same people that hate welfare and medicaid and refuse to see the need for any form of rights for women in the state…a state which leads the country in misogynist thought….women are to be seen NOT heard in Mississippi!  Or that 46% of Repubs polled say that inter-racial marriage should be illegal and 14% say they are not sure (personally, I think these think it should be illegal and answered as they did so they did not sound like a racist)…..and then these are the same voters that will bitch and moan about smaller government with less intervention…..it is all so damn silly!  Either Americans have free choice or not and my guess it is….we do NOT!

Mississippi is the most conserv state in the union and for that reason this amendment will probably pass…..all I can say is think about the damage the 18th amendment did to the US……so do NOT be surprised when the government interferes into your life even more….this is NOT the end of the government telling you what you will do….by law!  This is ALL about Roe v Wade and the right’s campaign to have it repealed…this is a religious issue…no matter how they package it.

The really sad thing about all this is once it passes the state will still have low wages, bad health care, high poverty, lacking education and all that will be accomplished is to massage the egos of people that care NOTHING for what is needed in the state of Mississippi.  Letting religion run the state or country is NEVER a good idea.

Amendment 26 does NOTHING for the state….it just lets people who cannot mind their own business feel good about themselves.  Lets quasi-religious morons tell people what to do and think….and there is where I have my biggest problem.  If you ignore this turn of events then hold your horses because it is a good chance that if it is effective that it will be coming to a ballot near you.

For the record…I am OPPOSED to abortion….with that said…..it is NOT my decision to make and it is DEFINITELY NOT the governments decision to make!  Unless you live in Mississippi!

2011 Anal-Ocity #15

They just keep coming fast and furious……why do those on the lunatic fringe have to speak and show just how moronic they really are and that anyone that takes them seriously needs to be committed to an asylum for observation?

Rick Santorum lost his bid for re-election and since his lose he has continued to spout total BS and now he seems to be positioning himself to run for the nomination of the GOP from the Tea Party fringe….everything he has been saying has not a single thread of truth to it….but does that stop him from making an ass of himself…..NOPE!  He talks and talks and shows his real thinking…..MORON!

This time Santorum was rattling on about Social Security and the problems that are perceived that the fund will have in the future……… and then out of the blue he said this about why there will be less money coming into the fund……

“A third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion.”

I wanted to say something quiet clever….but after the disbelief and then the raucous laughter….the best I can say is….this guy is an IDIOT!

It’s Abortion Time Again

It is that time of the year again….when all politicians turn to the issue of abortion…..the Congress is trying to put it into all bills that come before them, GOP is trying to crush Planned Parenthood, as they did ACORN and are attacking unions, all this is an assault on any organization that would help the Dems politically….the GOP is trying desperately to destroy the base of the Democratic Party……

Enough of my diatribe on the political climate in the Country and Washington…..

As anyone knows who reads Info Ink, I do not normally write on emotional issues with the exception of some craziness…..abortion is one of those issues….personally, I am pro-life….but that is not my decision to make, whether to have an abortion or not…….this is a privacy issues to me and as such NO one has the right to stick their nose in anyone’s business…..to those mental midgets that want the government out of their business…that applies to this issue also….the government should be  all in or all out…….

With that said…it is onward to my point….

In Kansas there is a trial of an Attorney General of the state for the misuse of his office in a targeted attack on the people that went to a clinic of an assassinated abortion doctor, Tiller……it seems that this official used lies to obtained medical records and hotel registries and even had patients and family followed and put under observation…all because his is a pro-lifer…he is using his office for the pursuit of a personal agenda and NOT the business of the state……..his hearing is to determine if he did anything wrong and the possibility of a dis-bar-ment, if found guilty……

WAIT!  Being dis barred will be his greatest punishment?  He infringed on people’s right to privacy and their civil rights and he may be dis-barred?  Is it just me or is that just damn ludicrous?  What about the rights of the people…you know those damn silly things that the Constitution guarantees its citizens?

Here comes my big finish!  These people do NOT want a woman to have a choice in a pregnancy and when they get their way…they will be the same people that bitch about all those women on welfare that are having babies to game the system…..but yet they do not want these women to have a choice….

Will someone explain to these people just how flippin’ MORONIC they are!  I apologize….moronic is a strong word……instead I will use……. STUPID!