Originally published at: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/republicans-play-down-state-efforts-to-ban-ivf-as-they-block-federal-bill-to-protect-it
As Senate Republicans sought to explain away why they wouldn’t support the Democrats’ in vitro fertilization bill — an effort to protect and expand nationwide access to fertility treatment, including IVF — they shrugged off the idea that a real threat existed. IVF, they claimed, was certainly not imperiled at the state level. “I certainly…
I guess the goobers don’t wanna listen to the SCOTUS about this pill
Cat pic is morning memo
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"And, you know, when in doubt, I like to leave things up to the state … I think that this should be a state decision.”
Except when the issue is the illegality of non-citizen voting in federal elections. But that comparison is inapt, since federal law already makes non-citizen voting illegal in federal elections. Mostly, though, I’m wondering, what is the default virtue of leaving everything possible up to the states? Especially when quite a few states are considering making IVF impossible to be performed successfully and legally. An appeal to the Lost Cause, that’s why states’ rights are a default virtue for these a-holes.
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Their churches never lost their power, so therefore the old idiotic monkey ideas resurface. The whole Civil War was a waste of time. We’ve been paying through the nose for these shits since.
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Money and power versus fanatic religious belief.
We are testing the theory that "you can’t fool all of the people all of the time but only some of the people some of the time. Or at least can you fool enough voters to hold onto what you sold your soul for, POWER.
Republicans have been buying power on a credit card of religious fanaticism and now the bill has come due. The problem is paying that bill, outlawing IVF and other reproductive care regardless if that care helps a woman have or not have a child will cause Republicans to lose what they sold their souls for, it will cause them to lose power.
So they need to fool people, that they are both for and against IVF.
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“I certainly don’t hear that anywhere. I don’t see it anywhere. I’ve never heard anybody ever suggest that,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), an obstetrician
When approached with the same question, both Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) also told TPM, “no.”
Yet in Marshall and Hawley’s states, bills that would threaten IVF have been introduced in the state legislature.
Hey ladies, these guys are lying to your face and expecting you to be too lazy or stupid to connect the dots.
You’re only going to get one chance to prove them wrong.
I tremble with anticipation.
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Personally, I think that the Senate Trump Magot Party members should have a Tiny Toadstool tattooed on their foreheads, as symbol of their loyalty to their leader, the Orange Asshole (and draft dodger).
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“…… leave things up to the states?” How about leave things up to the women? Republicans do not want to do anything for the average person. Wasting time instead of doing their jobs. Trump complained that during his first term nothing was done. It’s not our fault. Country before cult.
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GQP: “I’m not holding this gun in my hand. And it’s certainly not my finger attached to my hand that’s on the trigger.”
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Republicans Play Down State Efforts To Ban IVF As They Block Federal Bill To Protect It
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Eeerrrr…wut?
I get head pain tryin’ta read that & make sense of it.
But that’s governance GOP style I guess
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More to the point, they’re hoping nobody else is listening, either.
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They’d like to criminalize sex, however it would only apply to women, 'cause men have to get their rocks off (it’s in Genesis somewhere) or the world will end. The hope for a federal ban on sex is now very attenuated. But they can get it through the legislatures in a number of benighted states.
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States rights for me.
Federalism for thee.
Y’all Queda rides again.
Religious fundies - always bad news for women, men, minorities, intelligence, science, history, civics, and common decency.
Take away their damn tax status and treat them like the for profit media enterprises they are.
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Exactly. “Leave things up to the states” means “leave life-altering reproductive decisions in the hands of a few white men who are experts in cattle feed, insurance and something something Jesus delusions.”
What a stupid fucking country this is.
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Now when have men ever lied to women about the chances of getting pregnant?
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Shorter GOP: Women have no reproductive rights whatsoever which the states are obliged to respect.
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I am waiting for enough women to get elected to Congress and appointed to the SCOTUS and godforbid elected president so that we can begin to regulate men’s sex lives and their ability to reproduce. Goose…Gander.
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