It many have been withdrawn in South Dakota. But similar legislation is now being considered in Nebraska and Iowa. I'm so old I remember when legitimating terrorism was considered a bad thing. Anyway, I just hope that pro-choice groups don't try to draw attention to...
reproductive freedom
In any discussion of draconian anti-choice policies that apply pre-viability, the probability of an anti-choice apologist using non-sequiturs about (already illegal) post-viability abortions in order to evade the underlying issue.
Nothing is more damaging to the abortion criminalization lobby than people who actually take the stuff other anti-choicers merely pretend to believe seriously. Investigating miscarriages is appalling, barbaric public policy.
The House vote to end Planned Parenthood funding would make very little sense -- in some alternate universe where people who want to criminalize abortion were primarily concerned about protecting fetal life rather than regulating female sexuality. In our actually existing political universe, it makes...
Uh, good? The "it's so distasteful to respond to political threats by raising money" argument becomes particularly bizarre when you have a long memory about High Contrarian Discourse about abortion..
Looks like the atrocious South Dakota "jutsifiable homicide" bill has been shelved, with even the governor noting that whatever the voices in Jensen's head say passing a statute whose langauge.
I have no idea what Phil Jensen intended. But the language of the bill would clearly apply to the murder of abortion providers. The applicability of the "justifiable" exception only to homicides in response to "illegal" activity may exist in Jensen's head but it's not...
There seems to be some confusion in comments here about what "putting women on a pedestal" in the pejorative sense means. This, for instance, isn't that. For an actual example,.
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Every day women choose to do the hard labor of a difficult pregnancy. Its courageous work, which inspires in me a degree of admiration exceeded only by my horror at.
Obviously, it's a good thing that the particularly appalling language has been excised, but it shouldn't be forgotten that the "arbitrarily deny poor women access to essential health care" bill is still a really, really bad one. And whether or not the language ends up...
It seems as if at least once of year a conservative comes to explain that it's silly that any liberal would complain about the Hyde Amendment, because it's absurd to.
I wouldn't say that anything House Republicans could do would surprise me at this point, but this is appalling even by contemporary Republican standards. Nick Baumann: With this legislation, which.