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[treeskin]

I heard a bit more on the abortion bill in Missouri. Seems whomever put it out isn't getting much support, because the rest of the Republicans don't want the risk of a court fight over it now.

Here's what I found in an article in the KC Star today (original here, scroll down about halfway):

"In Missouri, state Sen. Jason Crowell, a Cape Girardeau Republican, has introduced a proposed new law and an amendment to the state constitution — a move that would go on the November ballot. Both of his proposals would make anyone who performs abortion liable to a felony prison sentence of 15 years unless the procedure was needed to save the woman’s life.

Gov. Matt Blunt told reporters he’d rather see restrictions that can quickly go into effect — “not just set up court battles.”"


Grrrrrrr.

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[iarraidh.livejournal.com]

Blount is an absolute FUCK.
During the campaign, I heard several debates between him and McCaskill.
It would always turn into a thocracy debate, and McCaskill would get repulsed by him.
He'd laud on and on about bringing God back into government.

And you Missouri dorks voted for him.
The Missouri dorks also voted for a dead guy over Ashcroft, thinking that was a good idea. That left Ashcroft free to become US Attorney General.
yeah.
That worked out SO muc better for the rest of the country.

Maybe Misourians should lose their right to vote. They aren't doing it well.

[bladed-pentacle.livejournal.com]

"Maybe Misourians should lose their right to vote. They aren't doing it well."

Wow. Thanks.

Just for the record, I know a shitload of people in and around Kansas City who hate the ultra-conservative turn Missouri took in the '04 election (and who voted to try and stop it). And I've heard the same from people I know who get word in from St. Louis. It's the boogans out in the sticks who're dragging us down. Everyone one I know on this side of the line who's got a functioning brain voted as blue as they could, and we just got swamped (or the election results got modded--still can't tell what happened with that one).

The problem over here is that you've got Springfield and the rest of SW Missouri, which is so riddled with fundies they probably have to try and find Biblical passages to justify IT expenditures. That part of the state churns out fundie clones by the thousands, and they get more and more every year because the little fuckers are trained to breed like rabbits.

BTW, Kansas ain't exactly perfect, either. Seem to recall something about intelligent design and your state Board of Ed. a little while back. And there's that Brownback guy...

Bottom line is, this part of the country's swung so red that little we do is gonna make much difference, short of riots in the streets and politicritters getting whacked. There's pockets of resistance, but most Midwesterners (from what I've seen in the 14 1/2 years I've lived in this part of the U.S.) seem to be so worried about the disruption of their traditional social values that they'll vote any jackass into office, regardless of what other political leanings that person may have. Which explains Ashcroft, Brownback (who always makes me think of santorum--the noun, not the politico--just due to his name and politics), Blunt (another great name for a conservative), Jim Talent, and the rest of the cast of bastards.

I don't know what's worse, though: the rural bumpkins in MO who're afraid of those damn liberals who want to make homosexuality legal and turn us into a decadent bed of godless depravity, or the spoiled, frightened clones in their $250,000+ Johnson County houses who vote red because they don't want their tax dollars spent on the poor (or, worse yet, vote red because everyone else is doing it and they won't climb the corporate ladder if they aren't like everyone else...which may be the more likely reason).

[bladed-pentacle.livejournal.com]

Sorry, man. Just saw this article about Missouri attempting to make Christianity the state religion and realized that while it does validate my point about SW MO, it also means that it's about time to start getting even more suspicious of the Xtians over here. And to worry about how long it's going to take before there's enough outcry around the country over this type of thing before there's another civil war.

[tnrkitect.livejournal.com]

At least they aren't in a state where the local politicians state for the papers "I would like to see ALL abortions banned period." and brags about being the most restrictive state in the union when it comes to women's rights.

Read the following ONLY if you really want to get up in arms:
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060303/NEWS010504/603030352/1001

You weren't kidding about the up in arms part

[treeskin.livejournal.com]

Things like this always enrage me:
Terri Herring, president of Pro-Life Mississippi, was pleased with parts of bill but slightly lamented the loss of the sonogram provision she hoped would dissuade abortions. "We were disappointed that the rape and incest exceptions were added," Herring said. "I think it's our responsibility to have a pure Pro-Life message that has to be you don't kill a child for the crime of his father."

Obviously, someone who's never been in that position. Someone who's lived through that has more than enough reminders of those events, without that kind of a burden.

Had I become pregnant on any of the nights when I was raped, and had to face no option but to carry that pregnancy to term, I probably would have done a more thorough job of slitting my wrists. No way I could have lived with that, at 17 and 18.

Re: You weren't kidding about the up in arms part

[tnrkitect.livejournal.com]

I warned you dear.

This is yet another reason that I am NOT staying in this state after graduation.

Re: You weren't kidding about the up in arms part

[treeskin.livejournal.com]

You did, you did. Guess it's just that I haven't talked to my sister in a while, so I've got to find something else to keep my blood pressure up.