They don’t learn. They just don’t learn. Sometimes I don’t think they’ve learned anything since 1860.
Jerks.
This is from a few years ago, but worth reading.
Excerpt:
White American evangelicals are “pro-life.” This is the single most important political aspect of American evangelicalism. It is the single most important theological aspect of American evangelicalism. And it is the paramount factor in evangelical identity for evangelicals themselves.
It’s also a very recent development. Thirty years ago, this was not the case. Fifty years ago, it was unimaginable.
This is NOT BY ACCIDENT.
They WANT THIS OVERTURNED so they can appeal it DIRECTLY to the SCOTUS where they are certain of a 5-4 ruling essentially overturning Roe vs Wade.
The only one standing in the way of that is Justice Roberts, and nobody knows HOW he would vote on this.
“Sanctity of Life”? From one of the most pro-lynching States? BFD.
Meanwhile, Faux News is replete with articles today pushing the propaganda narrative that it’s really the Dems who want to change the Constitution and change all the rules.
"If they do not believe in the sanctity of life…we will have to fight that fight.”
“Now watch me execute these prisoners.”
“And deny this healthcare for sick people.”
“And cut these food programs for children.”
Not this one.
The House and Senate both rejected efforts to allow exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest.
Fatherhood rights for rapists isn’t baggage they want to bring along, IMO.
Once more with feeling.
You don’t know Mississippi very well if you think that.
They believe that “The Handmaids Tale” is an instruction manual (that doesn’t go far enough), not a dystopian fantasy.
Yes, but those poor kids grow up to be soldiers so my kid doesn’t have to go.
I’ve only been to Mississippi once, and fortunately chose the skinniest portion of the state to travel through. I-10 at 70 MPH.
No plans to ever return, as bible-thumping stupidity is apparently highly contagious there.
Once a slave state, always a slave state.
The House and Senate both rejected efforts to allow exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest.
Of course they did. How else is Mississippi boys supposed to learn about doing that thing that no one does until marriage?
ETA: submitted without comment:
In response, National Rifle Association (NRA) spokeswoman Dana Loesch cited the Second Amendment of the US constitution, which gives Americans the right to carry guns.
“The US isn’t NZ,” she tweeted. “While they do not have an inalienable right to bear arms and to self defense, we do.”
Think of it in terms of “Der Trumpenjungend” and “Lebensborn”
Because rape and incest never happen in the zipper below the bible belt, right?
Aside from extremist evangelical groups, all these fetal heartbeat, anti-abortion laws smell ripely of ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council), a non-profit right wing think tank that drafts model legislation that can be just handed to like-minded legislators in various states to keep enacting such stupid laws that increasingly restrict women’s rights.
This kind of thing stinks to high heaven.
Take a WILD guess which state is the worst in the nation for infant mortality. Give it your best shot.
The bottom 5, ranked by infant deaths per 1000 live births in 2017:
Tennessee…7.4597
Oklahoma…7.7387
South Dakota… 7.794
Arkansas…8.2307
Mississippi…8.6322
The top five had less than half the death rate of MS. Four of the top five and eight of the top ten were states that went for Clinton in 2016.
While we are sending well-deserved ill wishes to the MS GOP legislature, I’ll note that the midwestern states that flipped to Clinton all rank pretty low on the list. In fact, that whole industrial heartland area fares poorly.
It may be that infant mortality is a decent marker for families and young women in distress. Such areas may be more receptive to the Trumpps of the world and to messages that “somebody else is getting all the goodies while you get neglected.”
Start tying those dead babies to GOP policies and start giving the distressed people real help.
I beg to differ. They know exactly what they are doing. It’s even in this article: “Abortion opponents are emboldened by new conservatives on the Supreme Court and are seeking cases to challenge the court’s 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.”
Also, I think those who believe they are trying to get the Supreme Court to reverse Roe vs Wade are underestimating what the effort is really about. Abortion had been legal in New York State before Roe vs Wade. They are going for a “sanctity of life” ruling, which would make abortion illegal everywhere.