All for the fetus, nothing for the child
Last week Mississippi passed a law making abortion illegal after 15 weeks.
On Monday, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed House Bill 1510 into law, making it immediately illegal for a woman to obtain an abortion after 15 weeks gestation. Mississippi’s previous law restricted abortion access within the state to 20 weeks. The state’s sole abortion clinic, Women’s Health Organization, located in Jackson, does not perform abortions past 16 weeks.
On Tuesday a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order to stop the law from going into effect.
Meanwhile, Mississippi is the poorest state in the country.
Meanwhile, The Atlantic hired this Kevin Williamson guy.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/24/when-the-media-tries-too-hard-to-appeal-to-both-sides-integrity-is-lost
Good god! I was just reading about him a couple of hours ago…I suppose that’s because people were tweeting about him because of the Atlantic, come to think of it.
But bloody hell.
The Nebraska budget bill is currently stalled in the legislature because the governor managed to get a passage stuck into it to end all Title X funding for any agency that perform, counsel, or refer for abortions. This would end funding for most of the current Title X agencies, meaning that a lot of low income people wouldn’t be able to get important health care.
The governor is a tea party favorite who is also obscenely rich and has attempted to pack the legislature with people who will agree with him 100% of the time, supporting them with his own money. He is bullying the legislature because there are some Democrats filibustering the bill, and they can’t get the 33 votes required to end debate (they only have 31). This is pretty amusing in some ways, because this is a deep red state with a mostly Republican legislature (although the vote is considered non-partisan). Still, the end result isn’t funny. If the budget bill isn’t passed, funding for services for children on welfare will run out in May. If it is passed, and it doesn’t have the abortion clause, likely the governor will not sign it. If it is passed and it does have the abortion clause, many people will lose all the opportunities they have to get care, not just abortions (which aren’t paid by Title X), but a lot of basic care.
Why do so many people hate women?
The inveterate question: Why do women hate women? The answer…organized religion, developed by man, for man. The big lottery ticket at the end of life: heaven, makes them (women) hate sinners above all.
The obstinate wankers who refuse to see the difference between a blastocyst and a child (and the well-understood gradations between them) are delusional, and, at bottom, they don’t believe that women are people with rights.
‘Mississippi, a relatively poor state, has the highest infant mortality rate and worst overall ranking in the nation for children and infant care, according to the 2018 Health of Women and Children report published earlier this month by America’s Health Rankings, which has been publishing an annual state-by-state assessment for nearly 30 years, according to Newsweek.’
AND:
‘…the infant mortality rate in the US ranged from 9.08 deaths per 1,000 infants born alive in Mississippi—which had the highest rate—to 4.28 deaths per 1,000 live births in Massachusetts, which had the lowest.’
AND:
‘Mississippi is first in hearth [sic] disease, stroke, diabetes, and the Mississippi’s gun violence death rate is nearly twice the national average.’
Republican Utopia.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/19/mississippi-abortion-law?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_b-gdnnews#link_time=1521501459
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As I’ve mentioned, I volunteer at Planned Parenthood here in Illinois. PP owns the property, so we have a parking lot. One of the protestors (a regular who is one of our more persistently aggressive assholes) likes to shout, “Why do you think so many of the cars are from out of state?” The answer, of course, is right here–for all its faults, Illinois is still one of the few places in the country that isn’t specifically horrible to women who want to end a pregnancy. (Even our normally as-lousy-as-any-other-Republican governor has a clue on this front).