They're not unwanted, they're just experiencing periods of deferred adoration
South Dakota's Republican Gov. Mike Rounds is expected any day now to sign or, less likely, veto the bill passed in that state's Legislature Friday banning abortion, and the pro-lifers out there are already pledging donations to fight its inevitable court challenges.
One fine anonymous soul, who apparently can't find any gestated lives in need of his financial help, has pledged $1 million to help eradicate the abortion clinics that are spread as thick as missile silos throughout the state–all one of them–and punish doctors with up to five years in prison for violating the ban.
The South Dakota bill is about as restrictive as they come, with no exceptions for rape, incest or best promoting health–abortion would be allowed only if necessary to save a woman's life.
South Dakota legislators, led by a woman, are thumbing their righteous red-state noses at the many courts that have in the past followed some incarnation of the "undue burden" rule and struck down laws far more laissez faire than this one for violating it. The Supreme Court, in its most recent abortion ruling, overturned a Kansas law banning "partial-birth abortion" because it did not include an exemption for cases in which the procedure's allowance would protect a woman's health.
Basically, this ban is a stunt. If by some small miracle it makes it to the Supreme Court, the Court would first have to decide to take it. If it did, despite the addition of Justices Roberts and Alito, it is far from certain it would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.
And this is just a personal conspiracy theory, but I think whether the Court will take it up and when it would rule will be influenced if not dictated by concordant timing with the legislative and executive election cycles.
Can you imagine if Roe was overturned and the abortion matter was passed over to the states? For at least the following two elections for just about every office less than president and greater than city councilman, this country would see maniacal single-issue voting of the likes only the extremest of extremists have experienced.
On the one hand, it might actually lessen the chronic political-correctness obsession so many candidates are captive to and make for some more humanized, entertaining campaigning. On the other hand, it might just increase the PC-ism while still doing likewise. If you think attaching personal "pork" provisions to bills is rampant now, just wait...
"Abortion is an abomination and I will see it driven from this scrupled state at the points of pitchforks if necessary! And not only that, if you send me to Washington, I will also fight for the people of this state who have been born!
"To protect this and every corner of the homeland, I will propose the 'Blazing Barrels of Freedom Act,' which would allow any man, woman or 8-year-old child exercising the God-given right to bear arms to shoot on sight anyone they have the slightest reason to suspect is engaged in activities that could in any way be conceived of as aiding, abetting, sympathizing with or not explicitly and actively opposing abortion, terrorism or anything at all Maureen Dowd might support, not merely without fear of prosecution, but with monetary reward!
"To create jobs, I will immediately propose legislation to ban women from holding professional occupations. They'll need to stay at home to nurture all the potentially wanted children my principled stance against the abortion evil will bless with a flowering of the life endowed upon them by the Creator.
"I will also get to work right away scrapping every social entitlement program that allows the lazy to leech off those of us bestowed with the divine grace to succeed in the free market. Why waste resources on universal health care or secular public education when we could be inventing and stockpiling new weaponry to use in the upcoming End Time holy war against Islam?
"Indeed, here's what I have to say to all the anxiously waiting abortion survivors out there: I promise I will keep you from being murdered in the womb–after that, it's your turn! Take ownership of your lives and the opportunities all around you–you can thank us later. We have to get busy ridding your new home of gays, hippies, infidels, cripples and ethnic minorities. Sieg Heil! SIEG HEIL!
"Oh, and God bless America."
One fine anonymous soul, who apparently can't find any gestated lives in need of his financial help, has pledged $1 million to help eradicate the abortion clinics that are spread as thick as missile silos throughout the state–all one of them–and punish doctors with up to five years in prison for violating the ban.
The South Dakota bill is about as restrictive as they come, with no exceptions for rape, incest or best promoting health–abortion would be allowed only if necessary to save a woman's life.
South Dakota legislators, led by a woman, are thumbing their righteous red-state noses at the many courts that have in the past followed some incarnation of the "undue burden" rule and struck down laws far more laissez faire than this one for violating it. The Supreme Court, in its most recent abortion ruling, overturned a Kansas law banning "partial-birth abortion" because it did not include an exemption for cases in which the procedure's allowance would protect a woman's health.
Basically, this ban is a stunt. If by some small miracle it makes it to the Supreme Court, the Court would first have to decide to take it. If it did, despite the addition of Justices Roberts and Alito, it is far from certain it would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.
And this is just a personal conspiracy theory, but I think whether the Court will take it up and when it would rule will be influenced if not dictated by concordant timing with the legislative and executive election cycles.
Can you imagine if Roe was overturned and the abortion matter was passed over to the states? For at least the following two elections for just about every office less than president and greater than city councilman, this country would see maniacal single-issue voting of the likes only the extremest of extremists have experienced.
On the one hand, it might actually lessen the chronic political-correctness obsession so many candidates are captive to and make for some more humanized, entertaining campaigning. On the other hand, it might just increase the PC-ism while still doing likewise. If you think attaching personal "pork" provisions to bills is rampant now, just wait...
"Abortion is an abomination and I will see it driven from this scrupled state at the points of pitchforks if necessary! And not only that, if you send me to Washington, I will also fight for the people of this state who have been born!
"To protect this and every corner of the homeland, I will propose the 'Blazing Barrels of Freedom Act,' which would allow any man, woman or 8-year-old child exercising the God-given right to bear arms to shoot on sight anyone they have the slightest reason to suspect is engaged in activities that could in any way be conceived of as aiding, abetting, sympathizing with or not explicitly and actively opposing abortion, terrorism or anything at all Maureen Dowd might support, not merely without fear of prosecution, but with monetary reward!
"To create jobs, I will immediately propose legislation to ban women from holding professional occupations. They'll need to stay at home to nurture all the potentially wanted children my principled stance against the abortion evil will bless with a flowering of the life endowed upon them by the Creator.
"I will also get to work right away scrapping every social entitlement program that allows the lazy to leech off those of us bestowed with the divine grace to succeed in the free market. Why waste resources on universal health care or secular public education when we could be inventing and stockpiling new weaponry to use in the upcoming End Time holy war against Islam?
"Indeed, here's what I have to say to all the anxiously waiting abortion survivors out there: I promise I will keep you from being murdered in the womb–after that, it's your turn! Take ownership of your lives and the opportunities all around you–you can thank us later. We have to get busy ridding your new home of gays, hippies, infidels, cripples and ethnic minorities. Sieg Heil! SIEG HEIL!
"Oh, and God bless America."
posted by Holly at 2:01 AM
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