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Forced abortions are horrible.

I’m having a discussion right now with Sean in the comments of my McCain on Daily Show post. In looking some things over, I ran across this post at Digby. It’s a response to Digby’s comments about S.D.s Sodomized Virgin Exception. Responding to the Left seems to feel that sex is only for procreation, and that people with 2 kids and a low paying job should not have sex, lest they get preggers. Is he saying that sex is for the wealthy?

Folks, sex is part of any healthy relationship. We’re humans (typically, we’re part of the animal kingdom) and we have the same needs. Yes, we can rationalize it, but don’t animals have sex for procreation? (I think there’s an exception for dolphins who do have sex for pleasure). So, what he’s saying is:

1. We’re not animals.
2. Sex should be for the wealthy and for procreation only.

My point is that animals typically have sex for procreation only. So, why doesn’t being a more evolved species (of for you religious types, being God’s chosen creatures) have the option to have sex for pleasure? This coming from the same people who want to outlaw birth control. No abortion, no birth control, no gay adoption, so only wealthy people who can afford to take care of their child should be allowed to have sex.

It’s not right to bring a child into the world if you can’t give them a fighting chance. When poor people have no health care and horrible schools, it only encourages the mentality. I say forced abortions for everyone until all children have a fighting chance.

This is why affirmative action is bad. It just says that poor people (and clearly distinguishes them) can’t keep from fucking, so lets make them another class, where rich people in good school districts don’t need it, and can fuck all they want. Next thing these types will do is try to fund affirmative action with a use tax (have a kid and are going to need affirmative action? gotta pay a child tax).

It is the responsiblity of every citizen to pay their share (not equal shares) to support every citizen of this country. Rich people should pay more (estate tax) and poor people should reap more benefits (no money directly, but their schools should get more funds than the rich school districts, and they should qualify for health care benefits ). This is the price you pay for living in America.

With all this here politicking going on recently, I thought it would be a good excercise to list what I believe in, so that when I run for POTUS (Whackjob-Tribbett ‘16), there will be a clear history of my views.

I believe:

• Men should have no voice in the abortion debate. No person has a right to tell another person what they can/can’t do with their bodies.
• Divorce is a greater attack on “traditional” marriage than same-sex marriage/civil unions. In fact, the word marriage should be reserved for religious purposes, and in all secular matters, it should be referred to as civil unions, to which everyone has equal access.
• War is bad. I am in awe of soldiers, who risk their lives every day. However, there is one aspect of war that I disagree with, and that is the people die. I don’t like getting killed, and I don’t like other people getting killed.
• this is Christinity, not this; this is Islam, not this.
• Americans should fear their own government more than other organizations. Terrorists can’t listen to our phone calls and Al-Qaeda is just as responsible to the American people as the Bush administration.
• Colin Powell would have made a good President, before he wasted his reputation in front of the UN.
• People should have the right to own firearms after they’ve been well trained and certified. Guns scare me, even in the hands of a trained soldier or police officer.
• Everyone should be allowed to vote, including convicted felons. Once you’ve served your time and repaid your debt, the honor to vote should be reinstated. Election day should be a paid national holiday.
• Collective bargaining is a good thing when used to help oppressed workers. It is a bad thing when unions use it to criple a city’s transit system or public services.
• The Internet/libraries/television/radio should not be censored for children. Areas/domains should be created and marked especially for children.
• Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell should be repealed. Sexual Orientation should not be a factor in doing someone’s job. Hate Crimes/Discrimination laws should also be repealed. Discrimination for any reason is unlawful, we shouldn’t need to spell them out. This only singles out those identifying groups.

What do you do when you’re the kid who gets laughed right off the house floor and all your bills are killed off in committee? Stick them in as an amendmant to an appropriations bill.

House Bill 1151, which sought to stop state funding for “abortion services,” met a swift death in the Virginia General Assembly, but weeks later, its spirit lives on.
The failed effort’s goal of generally restricting abortions and the organizations that provide counseling for them is now Item 4-5.04 #2h on page 390 in the House of Delegates’ version of the state budget. It is there because Del. Robert G. Marshall (R-Prince William) submitted a budget amendment that at first would have mirrored the bill but now includes language that would restrict public financing for abortions in nearly all circumstances.

We know this trick is old and is used all the time, but does it still make it right? Warner used it to tuck a gay anti-discrimination clause in (promptly removed because it angered Republicans). However, the best quote from the whole article is probably the best example of “Republican Mentality”:

Some Republicans criticized Warner for adding the non-discrimination language to the budget at the end of his term, without a time for public discussion. They suggested that it was more for political gain than anything else, agreeing that sometimes that’s the point of such maneuvers.
“I’m not going say that some of us don’t use the budget in that way, and clearly the governor got what he wanted to get out of putting it into the budget,” said Del. Clarke N. Hogan (R-Charlotte). “But in my mind, there was no good reason to put that in the budget.”

Classic! After the jump, links to some more whackjob bills he’s sneaking into the budget.

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Meet Senator George Allen, representing the Commonwealth of Virginia; state motto: “We elect stupid Seantors.” Allen couldn’t help but throw his opinion of the SD Abortion Ban out into the public:

Sen. George Allen’s CoS, Dick Wadhams, tells the Hotline that “Sen. Allen has consistently supported the rights of the people in their states to pass laws which reflect their views and values.”

Sen. Allen obviously doesn’t believe in the Constitution’s Full Faith and Credit Clause, since he wants each state to pass their own morality, and doesn’t want any other state to have to recognize another state’s laws, especially if that state supports same-sex partnerships. Though, Sen. Allen does think it’s important to force his morality on other states when it comes to same-sex union by amending the Constitution.

Fresh from South Dakota, that state that brought you this weeks scary abortion bill, comes something even scarier (maybe scariest?). SD State Rep Bill Napoli (R-Pennington) has offered a compromise on the rape and incest exception that the SD bill lacks. When asked by PBS’ Fred De Same Lazaro if there are any situations where the rape or incest exception should be allowed, he said:

A real-life description to me would be a rape victim, brutally raped, savaged. The girl was a virgin. She was religious. She planned on saving her virginity until she was married. She was brutalized and raped, sodomized as bad as you can possibly make it, and is impregnated. I mean, that girl could be so messed up, physically and psychologically, that carrying that child could very well threaten her life.

I can imagine the questions on the new SD “Application for Abortion” form:

1. State your preferred Protestant religion.
2. How long before your rape had you attended worship services?
3. Were you a virgin before being raped?
4. Were you sodomized in the worst possible way? (If so, please provide details so that your pain can be judged as worthy of an abortion).
5. Were you saving yourself for marriage with an opposite-sex partner who is of your same race and religion?
6. Would you consider carrying your gift from God to birth and then place the child up for adoption?
7. Do you believe the fetus is a Republican and supports President Bush and the Iraq war?
8. Does your fetus believe that warrants are needed to protect our country from terrorists?
9. Essay Question: What do you believe that Jesus would do if he reviewed your application?

By allowing Bush to stack the court, we’ve basically given people like this a greenlight to return this country back to it’s misogynist roots that women are for cleaning house and popping out babies. God forbid that a man’s 15 seconds of work be destroyed to save a woman from 9 months of the joyful bliss of carrying a man’s child.

They’re going to start coming out of the woodwork (or wherever it is they come from) if we don’t start taking back control of our government.

Congrats go out to the people of South Dakota for allowing their legislature to further the view that you are a state filled with backwards people. While it may seem that you’re on the forefront of a potential social change, in a few years, when this law does finally make it to SCOTUS, it’s a good chance it will get knocked down. But for now, enjoy your 15 minutes of fame until Dick Cheney shoots someone else.