I think that’s a feature not a bug. The modern GOP is primarily about hatred and hurting “the other”. Those are their main policies.
It certainly seems that way.
In a functioning democracy (I know, pull the other one, it’s got bells on) pissing off too many of your voters is supposed to have consequences. I can hope that some chickens are coming home to roost.
One can dream.
My dream too. Maybe the leopards have eaten too many faces.
Is the Kansas vote an example of conspiracy theory nutjobs being in a position to reject the vote (state legislature, I guess?) and choosing not to do so?
Because my deepest worry isn’t that Democrats don’t vote, but rather that they’ll be tossed out.
Exactly. It could be short-sighted. It could also be, to paraphrase Game of Thrones, that they know what the democratic consequences of this lightning push are, and do not intend to suffer the consequences.
Oh I know they don’t intend to suffer the consequences. And they probably won’t damn it.
A Florida Judge Who Denied A Teen Girl An Abortion Because Of Her Grades Was Voted Out Of Office
Smith had denied a 17-year-old seeking an abortion without parental consent in January this year on the basis that her grades were low and that she lacked “intelligence or credibility,” and was therefore not mature enough to get an abortion. An appeals court later overturned his ruling.
Let me get this straight.
If a girl has bad grades, and therefore isn’t likely to earn enough money to care for a baby, she can’t have an abortion.
But if a girl has good grades, and therefore is likely to earn enough money to care for a baby, she can have an abortion.
Has this judge ever approved an abortion for an underage girl?
And, if she has bad grades, her grades will be likely to improve if in addition to her schooling she also has to deal with being pregnant and giving full-term birth!
(not that there should be any possible doubt, but yes that is sarcasm)
The VA will provide abortions even in states that ban them.
Any VA doctor who performs an abortion in Texas (unless to save the life of the mother) will be committing a felony under state law punishable by up to life in prison. This will come to a head when some DA inevitably tries to arrest a doctor at a VA hospital. Maybe the Waco VA will end up being the Fort Sumter of our times.
If the abortion is done on federal land (i/e VA hospital), the State would (likely) have no jurisdiction to charge anyone involved.
I just thought of another one.
She’s not mature enough to get an abortion, but she is mature enough to bring a child into this world and raise it?
Don’t be ridiculous! She’s mature enough to bring a child into this world and surrender it to a commander as a proper handmaid should.
You should be right, but I doubt that will keep our nutball Attorney General or some rural sheriff from trying to make an arrest. A few years back Texas Republicans almost passed legislation to arrest TSA officers who perform pat down searches. The bill only failed when TSA threatened to pull out of all Texas airports, shutting them down.
The other issue is that SB 8 – the Texas legislation that allows anyone to sue anyone else who either performs or facilitates an abortion – is still on the books. As far as I know there’s no shield from being held civilly liable in state courts for actions on federal property.
There is discussion about having clinics on native lands to bypass the state law.
Having a federal law is the only across the board solution.
And in New Mexico:
I’d love to see the VA threaten to pull out of abortion-banning states.
I’d enjoy seeing a bunch of Republican Governors threaten to kick out the VA. That could be fun.
Not surprising, but needs to be put out there.