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niyad

(113,434 posts)
Mon Jul 11, 2016, 10:11 PM Jul 2016

Texas Republicans Want To Have Funerals For All The Fetuses

(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 can’t 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 Indiana’s 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 didn’t want that they won’t be able to hold down jobs, and things will go back to the way they were! Or they won’t 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 governor’s 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 won’t 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

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Texas Republicans Want To Have Funerals For All The Fetuses (Original Post) niyad Jul 2016 OP
I am sure they will be the first ones to attend zz-la Jul 2016 #1
K&R Solly Mack Jul 2016 #2
you and me both. niyad Jul 2016 #3
Absolutely love Wonkette! longship Jul 2016 #4
you are very wise to listen to your mother. niyad Jul 2016 #5
My parents were never wrong, no matter how much I protested. longship Jul 2016 #11
makes one wonder how many of them have ties to funeral homes and cemetary companies. niyad Jul 2016 #6
Omigod, my dear niyad! CaliforniaPeggy Jul 2016 #7
they are indeed monsters, peggy. woman-hating monsters. niyad Jul 2016 #10
Many are women and all are massive hypocrites. Hortensis Jul 2016 #35
So that would mean anything removed by surgery or any limb amputated MohRokTah Jul 2016 #8
you bring up a most interesting point. niyad Jul 2016 #9
Don't forget about the eggs and spermies Major Nikon Jul 2016 #13
Yeah, they got the idea from Roman Catholics Warpy Jul 2016 #27
Reminds me of "Mary and Child" by Born Against. johnp3907 Jul 2016 #12
Abbott is a sick man Skittles Jul 2016 #14
And with people like him, it never gets better. It's always worse. rusty quoin Jul 2016 #15
he seems to get worse by the day Skittles Jul 2016 #16
Texas has a lot of horrible people in office. From Cruz to Abbott, something is seriously Rex Jul 2016 #22
too many Texans don't bother to research candidates Skittles Jul 2016 #23
FWIW my elders from WWII era are all voting Democratic ticket. Rex Jul 2016 #24
Does Chris Christie know Abbott is sick? 63splitwindow Jul 2016 #25
OMG Skittles Jul 2016 #28
Then every miscarriage would have to be included in this law Betty Jul 2016 #17
Most miscarriages never noticed because they happen so early. State must require toilet filters. nt Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2016 #19
How many children have all the fuckers supporting this crap adopted? nt 63splitwindow Jul 2016 #18
Every sperm is sacred! central scrutinizer Jul 2016 #20
No surprise. Gohmert Piles worries about NASA's gay colonies in space. Not the Onion. Rex Jul 2016 #21
God, Noah, Ark, NASA, gays, space colonies, end times. Skittles Jul 2016 #29
Indiana (Mike Pence) already passed such a law radical noodle Jul 2016 #26
Trump's running mate? Freddie Jul 2016 #34
And just when you think the GOP fools couldn't get any more crazy seanbnewyork4 Jul 2016 #30
Deranged necrophiliacs...they need to be certified and interned for their own good. Surya Gayatri Jul 2016 #31
Jesus christ, that's stupid. These maggots need to find a clean hobby. n/t Judi Lynn Jul 2016 #32
Next I'll have to order a granite gravestone everytime I masturbate or buy a condom Monk06 Jul 2016 #33
don't be silly. this is all about punishing women. niyad Jul 2016 #37
"human and fetal remains" = funerals for foreskins??? eShirl Jul 2016 #36
. . . . niyad Jul 2016 #38

longship

(40,416 posts)
4. Absolutely love Wonkette!
Mon Jul 11, 2016, 10:26 PM
Jul 2016

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&

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,644 posts)
7. Omigod, my dear niyad!
Mon Jul 11, 2016, 10:38 PM
Jul 2016

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.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
35. Many are women and all are massive hypocrites.
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 06:24 AM
Jul 2016

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)
8. So that would mean anything removed by surgery or any limb amputated
Mon Jul 11, 2016, 10:39 PM
Jul 2016

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.

Warpy

(111,286 posts)
27. Yeah, they got the idea from Roman Catholics
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 01:01 AM
Jul 2016

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)
12. Reminds me of "Mary and Child" by Born Against.
Mon Jul 11, 2016, 10:55 PM
Jul 2016

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

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
22. Texas has a lot of horrible people in office. From Cruz to Abbott, something is seriously
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 12:47 AM
Jul 2016

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)
23. too many Texans don't bother to research candidates
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 12:50 AM
Jul 2016

they pick whomever has the R by their name, because that's what their parents and grandparents did

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
24. FWIW my elders from WWII era are all voting Democratic ticket.
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 12:53 AM
Jul 2016

Growing up, so many of them were stanch republicans. Maybe Texas can go blue again.

Betty

(1,352 posts)
17. Then every miscarriage would have to be included in this law
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 12:17 AM
Jul 2016

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.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
21. No surprise. Gohmert Piles worries about NASA's gay colonies in space. Not the Onion.
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 12:45 AM
Jul 2016

His entire 'speech' in a government building is - God, Noah, Ark, NASA, gays, space colonies, end times. Texas GOPers are a wonderment to behold.



 

seanbnewyork4

(32 posts)
30. And just when you think the GOP fools couldn't get any more crazy
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 01:48 AM
Jul 2016

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.

eShirl

(18,495 posts)
36. "human and fetal remains" = funerals for foreskins???
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 06:48 AM
Jul 2016

imagine going to your own post-mastectomy breast funeral

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