Ask Bill Napoli...cartoon. He thinks women can't make own decisions.

madfloridian

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Thu Mar-23-06 05:48 PM
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Ask Bill Napoli...cartoon. He thinks women can't make own decisions.

http://www.blogforamerica.com/archives/007650.html

Thursday, March 23, 2006
Ask Bill Napoli
Perhaps it's time for women to conform to the roles that male, Republican politicians like South Dakota State Senator Bill Napoli define for them. But daily life involves so many decisions, how can we be sure to always do the right thing? Stephanie McMillan of MinimumSecurity.net created a cartoon answering that exact question.

Napoli believes most women have abortions because it is more "convenient" to do so.

"When I was growing up here in the wild west," Napoli said on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, "if a young man got a girl pregnant out of wedlock, they got married, and the whole darned neighborhood was involved in that wedding. I mean, you just didn't allow that sort of thing to happen, you know? I mean, they wanted that child to be brought up in a home with two parents, you know, that whole story. And so I happen to believe that can happen again...I don't think we're so far beyond that, that we can't go back to that."

So like, you know, I mean... who are women to make choices for themselves when we have Bill Napoli?

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TrogL

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Thu Mar-23-06 05:50 PM
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1. I grew up in that era

Pregnant teenagers went on "vacation" to Switzerland or "spent the summer with grandma in Toronto" and when they came back magically weren't pregnant any more. No baby either.

Hmmm.

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madfloridian

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Thu Mar-23-06 05:55 PM
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4. Me, too. Long time ago.

Friends disappeared for months. Only often we did not even know why. Sad times we are having if we are going back to those years.

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MissMarple

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Thu Mar-23-06 05:57 PM
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6. "Homes" for unwed mothers. They must have been cozy places.

I knew a girl in high school who went to one. That was before the pill was readily prescribed for unmarried females, let alone high school girls.

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MrMonk

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Thu Mar-23-06 06:20 PM
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9. or they left high school for "private tutoring".

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Iris

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Thu Mar-23-06 05:51 PM
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2. Yeah. Forcing teenagers to marry is going to be GREAT for

this South Dakota and this country!

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jedicord

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Thu Mar-23-06 05:52 PM
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3. When I was growing up here in the wild west...

if a girl got pregnant the guy split.

Just sayin'.

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AValdoux

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Thu Mar-23-06 05:56 PM
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5. Shot Gun Weddings...

... weren't for the sake of the child, they were to save face for the families. Also to make sure the grandparents weren't burdened with the cost of the bastard child. The stigma of being labeled a bastard comes from the shame dished out by society when an innocent child was born out of wedlock. Are we going back to that now?

Not as extreme but similar to honor killings in Middle East countries we hear so much about.

AValdoux

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Kare

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Thu Mar-23-06 06:51 PM
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10. I hope not....

I live with three bastards, my husband and both my sons were born out of wedlock.
My daughter and myself are legitimate. You don't know the shame it has
caused my family.. we had to move to a different state.. my children are
shunned.. my husband can't find work.. and I'm afraid that the neighbors know.
There has got to be a support group some where. Maybe we can get into some
kind of program.. like the witness protection program..
If only this stigma didn't follow us every where we went.. why are we so
persecuted?!?!?

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Demobrat

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Fri Mar-24-06 12:54 PM
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11. So how is it that the whole world knows

your personal business? Do your husband and kids have "B" tattooed on their foreheads?

Just askin....

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DRoseDARs

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Thu Mar-23-06 06:04 PM
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7. In case y'all are wondering, yes those are his phone numbers...

http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2006/senrost.htm - Last Updated: 12/27/2005 11:37:34 AM

Oh dear... :rofl:

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madfloridian

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Thu Mar-23-06 06:07 PM
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8. LOL well, at least it was attributed to Stephanie.

Edited on Thu Mar-23-06 06:07 PM by madfloridian

via DFA, via Stephanie. Layered. LOL

I figured they were made up.

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