Give me the other end so I can beat them with it.
Honestly, I don’t know what’s worse. Serial killers or the Republican party. Maybe they are one and the same because both are totally insane. Neither have sympathy or empathy…all they want is what they want when they want it. It’s out of control.
Here’s yet another example of the insanity. I don’t think it will be the last.
A North Dakota congressman, Rick Berg, voted to make abortion, including abortion as a result of rape, a Class AA felony.
This chart outlines the classification, criminal charge and sentencing, in North Dakota:
| Felony Classification | Criminal Charge | Sentencing: Jail Time and Fines |
| Class AA FelonyThese are considered the most serious felonies by the State. |
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Life imprisonment |
So, if you rape and/or murder someone, it’s life in prison. A doctor provides an abortion to a woman who has been raped (and who was fortunuate enough not to be murdered during the rape) and he, or she, end up in the same cell with murderers and rapists.
On what planet would this ever make any kind of sense?
I’m pro-choice up until the time a fetus can live outside the womb. Woman should be entitled to complete health care by their doctors, including access to abortions in all instances and not only for rape or incest.
It’s time we kicked the proverbial ass that is the Republican party and all women, and the men that support them, should be demanding that government get out of the business of dictating what women can, and cannot do, with their own bodies.
Fix the roads, fix the economy, fix the education system. Stop fixating on peoples private lives.
I hope Republicans get their asses whipped in November. I’ve got extra sticks if anyone needs one.
I totally agree with you. I wish the GOP was as interested in fixing infrastructure and the economy as they are in their odd fixations on abortion, gay marriage and trying to make Obama fail. Maybe it’s not surprising since they can’t seem to get past their tired trickle-down fantasy. Plus, working to fix the economy, education, etc. is too hard. It’s easier to just rally people with fear-mongering and black & white pseudo-issues. They DO seem insane to me. I’ll take two sticks please.
Your sticks are in the mail. I’ll cover the postage.
I think you hit on it with the use of the word “fear.” That’s their platform in a nutshell. So, I rest my case…they are nuts!
We see eye-to-eye and well said.
Only eye-to-eye? Imagine my disappointment.
That’s an example of an iPad comment. I’m remarkably less pithy when typing on a device in my lap. Oh how I wanted to say so much more.
You said, “I’m pro-choice up until the time a fetus can live outside the womb.” That’s where we basically see eye-to-eye but I’m not sure at what time frame a fetus can live outside of the womb. I’m pro-choice as well, but I believe there should be a very, very narrow window for terminating a pregnancy. Certainly no later than 12 weeks, in my opinion, and probably less for good measure to be on the safe side.
In any case, to me, the rights of the pregnant woman are paramount. It is a violation of unimaginable proportions for society to tell a woman who has just been raped, “Sorry, but you have no choice in the matter. You have to give birth to what is growing inside of you – no matter what.”
Forget for a moment, if you can, that the pregnancy represents the rapist’s spawn and is the direct result of a vile act of pure evil. Pregnancy is something which can quite literally kill you. According to Wikipedia there’s approx. a one percent fatality rate to pregnant worldwide during the act of birth. I couldn’t find stats by country, and I’m sure that the rate is better in the United States, but whatever the rate, being pregnant and giving birth is still something that can kill you.
Society has no place telling an innocent person that you MUST do this thing that can kill you. Something that also has innumerable other effects on your psyche, body, ability to earn income, pocketbook, and much, much more. To do so would be a gross violation of the highest order.
If you watch carefully you just might be lucky enough to get a glimpse of how “politics” can be used as a method of control. It’s a way for one group of people to tell another group of people what they can and cannot do. Ah, freedom.
And this is an example of a not iPad comment.
I agree! Give the unborn child a little extra and allow abortion only up ontil the end of the first trimester. And please, can we keep this issue and that of gay marriage out of politics? But no, because the issue of homosexuality fires up the rednecked base. May all repugs have at least one gay child and one daughter who has an unplanned pregnancy. Then we’ll see what they really think.
Let’s keep things in perspective. Let’s side on the side of rational, sane, thoughtful. Let’s focus on the economy, jobs, education, children, infrastructure.
Let’s vote Democrat.
I would like a bundle of sticks please, this way when I break one another will be handy.
I’ve spoken to the trees and they have agreed to sacrifice a few for the many.
Ever been to North Dakota? Nuff said.
The list of states I don’t want to visit is growing longer. Surely this is going to create a problem for tourism departments nation-wide? They’ll have to spend money on new slogans…like:
“Visit North Dakota. We don’t kill doctors. We just brand ‘em with the letter A.”
I have a feeling the fixate on these things because they can be changed over the public head’s. The other things they possible need to work for to achieve something.
In general I think a woman should decide over this kind of thing without any interference, of anybody no matter what the situation or how she got pregnant. The majority of us doesn’t exactly take that kind of a decision lightly.
Exactly. It’s a major decision and no one should be making it for you.
Nicely said!
Someone had to say it.
I caught the tail-end of that story the other day and thought, “I can’t have really just heard that…” — there’s no room for two voices when one of them is crazy. Time to put the crazies in the institution.
Yes, it is institution time except…it’s getting crowded in there.