You've Got to Be Kidding?

Not long after Texas Judge Maya Guerra Gamble issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) barring the state of Texas from preventing a woman who has severe pregnancy complications from having an abortion, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent out threatening letters to Texas hospitals informing them that the TRO is temporary and that Texas will go after any hospital or doctor that provides pregnant Katie Cox with the necessary abortion. He then petitioned the conservative Texas Supreme Court, who then (as expected) overruled the lower court’s decision, thereby placing the woman’s abortion status in limbo.   The fetus Katie Cox is carrying suffers from Edwards Syndrome, a fetal anomaly that, 50% of the time, results in the fetus dying before or during birth, with 95 percent of those surviving past that dying painful deaths within the next two weeks.   Doctors have advised Cox the pregnancy is non-viable, and proceeding with it carries significant risks to her own future healt...

Republican state lawmakers on Thursday decided they were not going to allow Ohio voters, who had just passed a ballot measure (Issue 1) enshrining the right to abortion in the state constitution by a 56.6 to 43.4 margin, to implement that measure.   Claiming without any evidence that “Foreign Billionaires Don't Get to Make Ohio Laws,” Ohio GOP lawmakers announced plans to introduce several bills to override this ballot measure in the coming weeks.   Then, to seal the deal, Republicans declared, “To prevent mischief by ‘pro-abortion courts’ with Issue 1,” the Ohio Republican legislature “will make modifications to existing laws,” which would include removing jurisdiction on this issue from the judiciary and give it to the Republican legislature, basically removing voters and the courts from having any say on the issue whatsoever. Why, if I didn’t know better, I’d almost think Republicans are justifying canceling Ohio voters’ choices by simply making some bogus claim about “fore...

A new bill proposed by twenty-one South Carolina Republican lawmakers would make women who get an abortion in that state eligible for the death penalty under a proposed “South Carolina Pre-Natal Equal Protection Act.”   The bill would “afford equal protection of the laws to all pre-born children from the moment of fertilization ” and reclassify any act that ends a pregnancy as “willful prenatal homicide.” Because nothing says you’re “Pro-Life,” quite like the death penalty.  That’s right, these folks intend to elevate the “sanctity of human life,” by killing actual people.   Of course, Republicans will say the bill is actually no big deal, and that all they are really asking women to do is “Behave like good little Christian women - or we’ll have to kill you!”   Is that too much to ask? Now, to be completely fair, let’s be honest and point out that it isn’t as if Republicans are insisting women wear long, ankle-length red dresses with high collars, a white-winged bonn...

In a recent interview, US Senator James Lankford (R-OK) told Christian Nationalist Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council about how they were experiencing a massive drought in Oklahoma, and the week after they passed anti-abortion legislation, “we had the most overwhelming rainstorm that came across the state.”   No kidding?  If heavy rain is a “blessing,” then I’m guessing Puerto Rico must be feeling extraordinarily blessed lately.  Now, not to be critical, but Sen. Lankford’s God may have gotten just a wee bit too enthusiastic about all this anti-abortion legislation and overshot his mark a bit, because some of Lankford’s “overwhelming rain storms” ended up causing major flood damage in Oklahoma cities. Frankly, it isn’t as if this hasn’t happened before.  If I remember correctly, back in 2019, when Oklahoma was experiencing serious flooding throughout the state - Sen. Lankford was claiming “gay people are the cause of natural disasters.”  The funn...

Conservative legal organization the Thomas More Society, has been working with Republican-led state legislatures and other national antiabortion groups in drafting model legislation which would prohibit people in states where abortions are banned - from seeking the procedure elsewhere. Gee, the party of small government says what?  It seems these MAGA Christians who wanna police women sure seem to have lots of time on their hands - not to mention plenty of money too!  So, apparently, a woman is going to have to provide proof she's not pregnant if she wants to travel to another state.  Let’s see, how would that work?   One thing these theocratic Christian states might do is force all of their “womenfolk” to get tattoos of their “state seal” on their arms.  You know, just like farmers do when they brand livestock.  That would sure make it a helluva lot easier for bounty hunters, when they search for escaped women in violation of the new “Fugitive Woman Act...

During an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) refused to rule out the possibility that his state may ban certain forms of contraception.   This was part of his attempt to sidestep any questions regarding exactly what Republicans plan to do next when Roe v. Wade is overturned. Smart move, because everyone knows the best way to avoid people needing to have an abortion, would be to ban birth control.  Now, conservatives are always quick to point out that "The Constitution doesn't guarantee the right to have an abortion,” which is true.  On the other hand, the Constitution also doesn’t guarantee anyone the right to “scratch their ass” either.  Perhaps it’s time we “crackdown” on that too? Now, in their defense, it’s not really Republicans’ fault that most conservatives don’t fully understand the need for birth control.  After all, they can just use their personalities for that.  That said, I understand why Gov. Reeves ...