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(since abbott will not be going to the rnc, he should have plenty of spare time)
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Texas Republicans Want To Have Funerals For All The Fetuses
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Barely a whole month has gone by since Texas got told by the Supreme Court that they cant make up dumb rules for abortion clinics for the specific purpose of making it harder to get an abortion. And what are they doing now, you ask? Well, they are making up newer, dumber rules to make it harder to get an abortion! I guess some people just never learn!
And by some people, I mean Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who is now trying to institute a newfangled law that would require abortion clinics to send fetal remains to funeral homes to be buried or cremated. Just like Indianas been trying to do, to no avail, because the law keeps getting in their way. Governor Abbott believes human and fetal remains should not be treated like medical waste, and the proposed rule changes affirms the value and dignity of all life, read a statement from his office.
These laws serve a dual purpose. One, making it harder and more expensive to get an abortion, and another, to push the idea that those who get abortions are murdering murderers who are murdering human beings. The more they can push the idea of fetuses as human beings and not just clumps of cells, the more they feel they have a shot at proving that abortion-havers are murdering murderers. And then, the women will be so busy taking care of babies they didnt want that they wont be able to hold down jobs, and things will go back to the way they were! Or they wont be having sex for enjoyment at all, just like everyone who has ever had sex with Greg Abbott. And then, Randy Newman will have to write a new song called Texas Girl At The Funeral of Her Fetus.
I have an idea for a compromise though, and I think it is a good one. Howsabout these clinics load up some trucks with fetal remains, and then drop them all off at the doorstop of the governors mansion, and he can take care of this himself? He can start a little cemetery for fetuses right in his own back yard, do all the digging, make little headstones, make some teeny little caskets with cardboard and Modpodge, and do whatever his heart desires. And all the money to take care of that can come right out of his own pocket! Then, he will be so busy conducting all the fetus funerals day in and day out, that he wont have any time left to make up anymore stupid laws about abortion. EVERYONE WINS.
Read more at http://wonkette.com/603924/texas-republicans-want-to-have-funerals-for-all-the-fetuses#iDXWFBQzsAaPpBAL.99
zz-la
(224 posts)Oh wait no they want.
You already know what I think about it.
niyad
(113,434 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)She gets it right.
Reminds me of Ann Richards, who also took no prisoners in her advocacy for women's rights.
I'm a guy. I have no say on these issues. So like my mother taught me, I defer to my superiors on them. The women.
R&
niyad
(113,434 posts)I miss Ann, and Molly.
longship
(40,416 posts)niyad
(113,434 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,644 posts)This sounds like something out of the Onion, only I know it isn't.
These "people" are MONSTERS. I just don't know how to express my outrage. I am almost literally speechless at this supreme idiocy.
niyad
(113,434 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)This would disappear faster than it came if they had to pay for these "decent burials" themselves.
As for the issue, I know what I think of people who claim abortion is murder but have no problem with murdering innocent babies conceived, through no fault of their own, by incest or rape. There are true, honest believers that abortion is murder, but for a majority it's at best a shallow sentiment and at worst just a high card to be played--and for most it's both.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)would have to receive a funeral?
That's what he said. Human remains deserve respect and if you have to send human tissue to funeral homes, all hospitals are going to have a world of trouble after any surgery.
niyad
(113,434 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Warpy
(111,286 posts)although even they have quite sensibly abandoned the practice.
You see, they believe in the resurrection of the flesh, so you're going to want that diseased or damaged body part close by in the graveyard so you can take it with you when you get sucked out of your coffin.
johnp3907
(3,732 posts)And the all knowing man
has set up his make-believe graveyard with tiny white crosses for millions of
make-believe souls
Someday I'd like to see a cross set up for a real live
human being who bled to death to maintain the sanctity of Mary
Mary & child
scream the bigots who couldn't care less about human life
Skittles
(153,169 posts)seriously, there is something very, very wrong with him
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)wrong with all of them. Gohmert just threw a pipebomb about gay space colonies. You know how that is a priority over food and shelter.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)they pick whomever has the R by their name, because that's what their parents and grandparents did
Rex
(65,616 posts)Growing up, so many of them were stanch republicans. Maybe Texas can go blue again.
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)STOP IT 63splitwindow, YER KILLING ME
Betty
(1,352 posts)Right? And I'm sure they'd love to force women who miscarry to also have to register with the state so they can keep an eye on these sort of things.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,013 posts)63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,652 posts)[link:https://m.
|Rex
(65,616 posts)His entire 'speech' in a government building is - God, Noah, Ark, NASA, gays, space colonies, end times. Texas GOPers are a wonderment to behold.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)IT'S SUCH A JOY TO LIVE IN TEXAS
radical noodle
(8,003 posts)See this:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/state-mandated-mourning-for-aborted-fetuses/482688/
Indiana seems to be the incubator for all things regressive.
Freddie
(9,269 posts)HRC will have a field day with him on issues like this.
seanbnewyork4
(32 posts)Seriously, do the Repubs realize just how stupid this is? They are seriously out of touch with what the rest of the country wants. I mean, their platform is talking about the "evils" of pornography, for God's sake.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,555 posts)Monk06
(7,675 posts)niyad
(113,434 posts)eShirl
(18,495 posts)imagine going to your own post-mastectomy breast funeral