Discussion: Rape Clause In Abortion Bill Revives Familiar Headache For Republicans

system1 · January 21, 2015, 11:33pm

Discussion for article #232335

maxaroo · January 22, 2015, 11:57am

It’s very important that the Republicans gain control of both Houses every 20 years or so. They can’t help themselves, and remind everyone why we don’t want to let this happen again. Of course, the American people are stupid and have short memories.

lew · January 22, 2015, 11:57am

When it comes to sex, the only “right” the GOP favors is the right to purchase Viagra for middle-aged white men. However for the majority of Republicans, it only makes them taller.

avattoir · January 22, 2015, 12:18pm

“This bill is an abomination …It really shows … where Republicans’ priorities are …”

Abominations are all they have. And it won’t get better or even different between now and the next Congress.

All one needs to know about what is going to happen is look to what red states have been doing, or what’s been happening with national and regional government in Hungary over the past several years.

All the majority leadership of both chambers of this new Congress will now proceed to do, over the next year to 15 months at most, before shutting down for the 2016 campaigns, is to introduce and try to get to the president’s desk, in as intact a form as possible, the very not-smart ALEC bills, to the very same anti-democracy and anti-government ends, that red-state legislatures and governors have passed and signed and sometimes implemented and sometimes been sued over as unconstitutional, but mostly not.

In the international context we’re stuck forever at the continually shifting front edges of Mission Creep - and in the domestic contexts we’ve already lost out to the Borg on rendering the most unstable fully armed and lethal, on 24/7 surveillance, on law enforcement being an interest that’s both severable and separable from the citizenry in general, and now we have the nationalized social law and order by balanced budget gridlock not-smart ALEC agenda.

fiftygigs · January 22, 2015, 12:20pm

“…Republicans held a long conference meeting to discuss the matter and find a way forward…”

What Republicans did not do was hold a long conference meeting to discuss jobs.

avattoir · January 22, 2015, 12:37pm

Oh, that’s SO unfair. Why, I’d defy anyone to discover and reveal the Congressional GOP caucus meeting where they did NOT discuss cocktails, dinner, golf, trips, social outings and meetings with individual lobbyists and lobby groups on behalf of about every conceivable industry. And to the GOP, accommodating those interests IS ‘jahb creation’, in every sense.

pickwick · January 22, 2015, 12:46pm

Pandering to the extremists in your party is not so easy when you control both houses and are expected to actually pass a bill. The rhetoric will never match the reality.

willpower · January 22, 2015, 12:59pm

Point 1:
Hillary Clinton has this congress to run against in 2016. Rather lucky.

Point 2:
Renee Ellmers now knows the name of her biopic… “American Idiot”. Boehner just dropped her into the Primary bucket.

sherlock1 · January 22, 2015, 1:19pm

Dumbazz’ Republicans…They just can’t help themselves. Hey you misogynistic Rightie tools; how about a law to cover Pain-Capable-Babies who are, you know, BORN!!! It would cover the health and welfare of the child who is alive and here and needs help! Wouldn’t that be sweet? ____We won’t hold our breath.

sherlock1 · January 22, 2015, 1:22pm

Maybe they can bring it back and get Cosby, America’s DAD, to co-sponsor it. Winning, DUH! (The GOPigs ARE just that f’n tone deaf.)

sherlock1 · January 22, 2015, 1:24pm

OH…and BTW! Now??? ~cough, cough!~ JOBS BILL? JOBS BILL? JOBS BILL? JOBS BILL? JOBS BILL? JOBS BILL? JOBS BILL? JOBS BILL? ~cough, cough!~

Still not gonna’ hold my breath as I wait.

nick1936 · January 22, 2015, 1:25pm

Hey BONER WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

crackerjack · January 22, 2015, 1:26pm

By late Wednesday afternoon, Ellmers took to Facebook to say she wouldn’t stand in the way of the late-term abortion ban, declaring that “I have and will continue to be a strong defender of the prolife community.”

Or, in English: I’ve discovered that my principles and my re-election chances are inversely proportional. Please don’t primary me!!!

debbie · January 22, 2015, 1:30pm

How is this not the equivalent of mandating burqhas?

1gg · January 22, 2015, 1:44pm

My message to the GOP: For the love of god, get out of my bedroom and doctor’s office.

maxaroo · January 22, 2015, 1:55pm

“The original legislation would have banned abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, a move polls say Americans support.”

That’s why the Constitution exists, and the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution. Constitutional rights are not subject to the whims of the electorate. Just ask the Republicans about the Second Amendment.

theghostofeustacetilley · January 22, 2015, 1:56pm

LIbTARD cuLTURe OF deaTH on dispLAY. EiTHER theY want TO KILL the preBORn OR their DEATH panels want TO TaKE GranDMA’s liVER!1!!!one!!!

boscobrown · January 22, 2015, 1:56pm

If life begins at “the moment of conception,” who in the Republican party determines when life begins? They do have such a person/persons, don’t they?

benthere · January 22, 2015, 1:57pm

Now that the Repubs have taken control of both the Senate and the House, they’ve bungled everything and are showing their true stripes, i.e. inept at promoting their agenda - what there is of it.

jtgeomom · January 22, 2015, 1:58pm

Thanks a lot to all the lazy Dems who couldn’t be bothered to vote, or the “swing” voters who thought maybe the R’s were going to (snort) focus on jobs.