His Level of Interest Ain’t Exactly Normal
Rick Perry has done jumped the shark over his interest in my body’s best parts.
So the Texas Lege starts its once every two years meeting in January and Rick has started making his list and checking it twice over what he considers emergency legislation.
In foreign states emergency legislation is generally reserved for … well, emergencies. You know, like a tornado hit a town and they need emergency funds to dig out the tourist attractions. Or they’re going to war against Arizona because Arizona is just asking for it.
Not so in Texas. In Texas, emergency legislation is whatever Rick Perry thinks will get him elected President once the public forgets he can’t count to three.
And you know, of course, that has to do with the famed uterus. It’s called the Fetal Pain bill.
“Fetal pain” is the newest frontier in the anti-abortion movement; similar bills have already been passed in Nebraska, Alabama, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Oklahoma, Georgia, Arizona and Louisiana. That’s despite the fact that there’s no conclusive evidence to suggest that fetuses actually feel pain . To make its case, Americans United for Life usually cites this study from 1987 while ignoring several more recent, less sketchy studies that debunk it. (You can find a few of those studies here, here and here.) The science suggests that fetuses feel pain at 29 to 35 weeks at the absolute earliest.
But, this is not about science. This is about the Presidency of the United Damn States of America. You know, because living in a bubble of self-loathing and irresponsible women worked so well for Mitt Romney. Rick Perry thinks the only reason Mitt lost is that he didn’t have great hair or a haughty-as-all-get-out wife. Okay, maybe not the wife thing but surely the hair thing.
So, off we go to the Presidential races again.
A pretty clever and enterprising person has come up with something you need to put on your Christmas list. I’m wearing mine to the State Lege and sitting in the balcony every chance I get.
You can even get it in different colors but I’d stick with white because that’s the only color that Rick is comfortable with.
So the political philosophy here seems to be that the government has a responsibility to protect a fetus from pain. I’m pretty sure that the woman or child wrapped around that fetus wants to be protected from pain too.
1The only reason I do not own that shirt now, a mere .3 milliseconds after seeing that it was a Real Thing In The World, is that my office blocks Zazzle.
It is perfection. I hope it also comes printed on a bumper sticker!
2Oatmeal on my iPad! Dang! I have got to stop reading this during breakfast…
3I’m asking Santa!!
In light of Glen Maxey’s book perhaps the following.
Dick Perry
4Probing All the People
All the Time!
Keep talking, Slick Perry and the Republikan’ts, every time they open their mouths, an angel screams with laughter and 1,000 more people become Democrats.
5Neener – it most certainly does come in a bumper sticker. http://www.zazzle.com/rick_perry_master_of_the_uterus_bumper_sticker-128283078812980618
And a button – http://www.zazzle.com/rick_perry_master_of_the_uterus_button-145075091087310056
6Oh my gosh Juanita I laughed so hard I spit out my coffee and I don’t like to waste a drop…. hahahahah.. GOV Good Hair is more concerned about girl parts than any legislater should be….. Makes me wonder … Love the T shirt, waiting for a bumper sticker..
7OK I’m going to be very very honest with all of you.
30 years ago, I had a little boy who was born at 28 weeks. He died after 5 torturous days. Babies did not survive back then.
I have read the literature and I don’t think that the Fetus Pain bill is true.
What I do know is that BABIES feel pain. Children feel pain and the adults that watch them and are responsible for them do too.
I do know that keeping all fetus, against all odds is a terrible, horrible thing. Which is exactly what the republicans want to do with their no abortions, keep every fetus alive at all cost.
30 years ago I worked F/T as a nurse for 6 months to pay for the medical bills After insurance.
Who will pay for all these children?
What the republicans want to do is keep every fetus alive no matter what. I do mean that they do not care about the women who are pregnant, they will let them all die, for the sake of a fetus.
And when the children are born, they will keep them alive at all cost.
But do they care about children who are alive?
Do they care if they live or die? Do they care if they are fed, clothed and have shelter? No
Do they care if they are educated, have the tool to go into the future to survive?
Republican will spend untold amounts of money to keep these children alive sometimes against their parents choice.
The rick santorums of the world can parade their handicapped children to the world. They have money aplenty to feed clothe and take care of their ‘special’ children and all their other children. He had the time, money and could afford the help to run for POTUS.
8Do any of you know parents of handicapped children? They are barely hanging on. The services to their child are being cut, educational services cut. They are cutting Medicaid and health services.
Republicans do not care about children. They don’t. They have no plan to pay or care for these children.
Diane,
9Thank you for your honesty. I am so sorry for your pain. I agree with everything that you said.
Diane, whoa boy, it is so sad that these idiots out there can’t feel for anyone period! {{{{hugs}}} if allowed.
10I have long thought that the way to make abortion acceptable to these guys is to schedule it for one second after birth. You know, the point where the radical right stops caring?
11@Diane – hugs today even though they are 30 years too late. Everything you say is true. As an educator, I’ve seen those children daily who did not have enough of anything; as well as their parents who try so hard every day to see that their kids have enough to survive.
12Just when you think GoodHair and his Idiot RePigs cannot think up anything STUPIDER, they do~Please get rid of him, soon~
13@Diane, I appreciate you and your confirming everything I have read and hear about this unfortunate situation. Another thing I have read and personally seen is how many times the father of a special needs child cuts and runs, leaving the mother with 100% of the responsibility for the care and costs of caring for the child.
My question for GoodHair and his Repugnant buddies is, “How many special needs children have you adopted and taken care of?” I’m confident that personally faced with the choice, those guys would opt for abortion no matter the number of weeks of gestation.
14His ickineess gives me a pain, but not in the fetal area.
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