Discussion: Missouri Now A Half-Step Away From Having No Abortion Providers At All

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See, then they can put them in prison to use them as slave labor. Win-win.

/snark

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Yeah some would like that even if you’re joking, but even that’s more costly than if they’d just help folks! They just never can seem to look at the whole picture.

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Mandatory prostate biopsy. I’ve had two, get them every year now, and it’s a log shoved up the tunnel before firing 12 needles through the colon into the prostate to get a stab of tissue. Imagine Thorn hammering your nether regions with a dozen swings and you begin to get a clue of the pain.

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El Salvador and now Missouri have the worst abortion laws in the Western Hemisphere. Depending on how you want to play it, comedy or tragedy, you could have Salvadorian refugee who escapes El Salvador, ends up with an unwanted pregnancy, and lands in Missouri. The script almost writes itself, touching on everything from labour and migration policy to failed foreign policy. Sort of like Roma goes to Hannibal.

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Ok…got it…now,what are the people who elect these knuckle daggers gonna do about it…don’t tell me… vote them back in? And that is the pity,no ability to see the ramifications for their awful choices…these legislators have no clue about the health complexities of the female body or the onerous ramifications of the uninformed literally dictating your health choices.

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The “blow me” state…reflecting the attitude of legislators to their constituents

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Reminds me of my knucklehead former PA Gov. Tom Corbett, who supported a mandatory ultrasound bill and told women to just “close your eyes” during the exam.

He subsequently lost his re-election bid, the first time an incumbent PA governor lost re-election in 40 years.

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Well, we here in Kansas elected an idiot for governor and a cadre of his buddies for state senators and they wrecked the place. It took awhile, but we finally got rid of Brownback, Kobach and the rest. Still leaning a bit red, but at least not crazy red. And the state is finally picking up business, roads getting fixed, schools getting funded, etc. Not great, but getting better.

Missouri looked at that and said “Here, hold ma beer!”

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Heck yeah! TPM is way late to the game. They need to be more like our Saint Rachel.

This list of articles from TPM is too measly.

Edit: Reordered links newest to oldest.

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Hush! Don’t confuse the tantrumming children with FACTS! Their fefes will be hurt!

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Damn. Just damn : - )))

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One huge factor in childcare is the hit women are expected to take in their career development. Aside from mandatory military service (now gone in the US, men face no comparable hit. The interruption in career development on average costs women a certain slice of their lifetime earnings, devaluing them on the market. Almost all advanced economies have sought to at least partially deal with this imbalance through paid maternity leave, job protections and informal arrangements on reentry to the working life, child care and women’s health programs. The economic aspects of abortion in preserving a woman’s economic value (human capital) seem to get lost from the discussion, even if the cost of childcare over a lifespan may be the equivalent of buying several dozen new Teslas.