This article was originally published at ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1456377
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1456377
How did an R+11 state end up with an all-male supreme court? Gosh-darn it, that’s a real freaking mystery.
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This part right here:
Quizzing a male attorney for the male governor, she asked about a privacy provision in the state constitution that some legal experts had argued protects the private and personal right to abortion. “What could be more personal than a woman’s decision to have an abortion?” she asked.
The lawyer began to invoke Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court’s now-defunct 1973 decision that guaranteed a right to abortion.
She interrupted: “I’m asking you. I know you’re not a woman, but what could be more personal than that decision?”
“Your honor, there could be any number of things that could be more personal…”
She cut in: “Name me one.”
I guess the next step will be for R and D women in the SC legislative bodies to start asking questions about how prepared is the state of SC to handle all these additional births?
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That uppity Obama caused some serious pushback, didn’t he?
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A sea of white men jammed one side of the room. Before them, at a wooden table, sat three male attorneys there to argue in favor of the state’s law banning abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy.
On the other side of the room, a group composed mostly of women crowded benches behind a female attorney who had challenged the law.
They’re not even bothering to pretend anymore.
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Hahahaaaaa. Sorry, that was funny.
You now expect them to give a fuck beyond kowtowing to religious fanatics?
Or to care about anyone other than themselves?
Or to be consistent?
Or to follow the law?
Or to make sense?
Or to think through the implications of the harm they’re causing?
Or to, you know, just give a single fuck?
The answer, in private, is that those sluts should have kept their legs closed in the first place. Their response then, by their actions is nothing. Since those sluts got what they deserved and now they’re paying the price.
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Will there be any OB/GYN’s to deliver those pre born humans? Will there be any OB/GYN’s to provide female health care? Will there be any OB/GYN’s in residency in hospitals in SC?
The may find themselves back in the era of “I don’t know nothing about birthing babies.”
(Yes, I know that is the goal of some.)
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None of this will stop until businesses get involved. No one, and by no one I mean women, will willing submit to transferring to a state that considers females nothing but breeders.
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Along with laws preventing pregnant women from leaving their state, these small men will eventually need laws preventing any women from leaving. It will be impossible to stop young girls from discovering that there are places where they are granted full rights and control over their own lives.
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Sex trafficking could take on a new aspect.
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South Carolina, like most of the other red states and especially in the South, has some of the mingiest supports for families in these United States. They’ve long since decided to join the race to the bottom for who can provide the least to educate, feed, and house their families and children. Their minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour, unemployment benefits are nearly non-existent, they didn’t expand Medicaid eligibility, state support for education is pathetic, etc., etc.
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Was just reading a story on HuffPost about how doctors who specialize in treating difficult pregnancies are leaving Idaho. We have actually reached the point of dystopian hell in some states. Why would I want to stay in a state and attempt to start a family where maternal medicine is illegal? Fucking hell, folks. Two societies inside our borders, and one of them is not America.
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I hate to pick on people, but it looks as though those thought to have some perspective (Granny and Gramps) have long since decided to re-live acting like adolescents.
It gets worse.
The youth vote has not taken up the slack…and that is regrettable, since it is they who must navigate the Dystopia that Granny and Gramps are laying out for them by voting Republican.
Lately, the two Justins have started a movement dealing with animating political consciousness among the young. One thousand Eeyores stand ready to stomp on that idea…but it really is about the most sensible path going forward
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I’m all for pitching the younger generation to vote Democratic.
Maybe with a truism like, “Even the threat of waterboarding couldn’t get reactionary congress critters to vote to raise the minimum wage…”
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An armed society is a polite society…
Side doors…
Mental Health…
Thoughts and prayers…
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Why is South Carolina a state?
Because its economy is too small to support a sovereign nation but its population is too large to be an insane asylum.
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When companies in these states can’t find anyone to work for them with half a brain in their head, things will change. I’m not holding my breath.
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I think this is the kind of place that should choose our nominee… makes sense to me 
In South Carolina, where the Civil War started when confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, there are still people who believe the South won the war. Those same people hold Civic War enactments yearly. But mostly it’s the state that gave us Linz.
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As other states set records for electing female justices, Toal and Hearn remain the only two women to reach South Carolina’s highest court. Many other Deep South states aren’t faring much better.
Now, now, sweatheart, don’t worry your pretty little head about that. Be a good girl and get me a beer.
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