Who Are We Forcing To Give Birth Today? (Everybody, Basically)
Who Are We Forcing To Give Birth Today? (Everybody, Basically)
Doktor Zoom
September 30, 2022 11:31 AM
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We have several front-line dispatches from the Republican war on women's bodily autonomy, which keeps getting uglier. Let's take a look at what the bastards are up to this week:
Michigan: House GOP Does D & E On Repeal Of 1931 Abortion Ban
In Michigan, Democrats in the Republican-dominated state legislature have been trying to get a vote on repealing the state's 1931 near-total ban on abortions. Once the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, that 1931 law would have come back into effect, but it was blocked by a judge after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer sued. But if that order is reversed by the appeals process, the law would snap right back into effect. Michigan House Democrats on Wednesday attempted to "tie bar" all bills under consideration to a measure repealing the 1931 law — a maneuver that would require a vote on repeal in order for other bills to pass. But the attempt was thwarted by the Republicans, using a rare, antiquated procedural rule that hasn't actually been invoked in decades. Republicans declared the amendment motion "dilatory," meaning that it was simply an attempt to "obstruct or thwart the will of the assembly;" i.e., a meaningless delay tactic. Which is to say, the amendment, offered by state Rep. Carol Glanville, was killed before it could even be debated. Oh look, video!
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So that was what you'd have to call a Dilatory Evacuation of the amendment.
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Maine Congressional Debate Moderator Asks Men Abortion Question, Forgets Woman Candidate
Hey, at least this story doesn't actually involve legislators restricting abortion rights, so it's arguably the nicest one in our roundup. During Tuesday night's televised debate in the race for Maine's Second Congressional District, moderator Pat Callaghan of WCSH-TV only addressed questions about possible federal laws on abortion to the Democratic incumbent, Jared Golden, and the Republican candidate, former Rep. Bruce Poliquin, without offering independent Tiffany Bond a chance to answer. Even though Bond is very much a long-shot candidate, for fuckssake you don't exclude the only woman on the set when the question is abortion! Here's video:
Golden defended his vote for a national bill enshrining Roe in law, and said he supported the right of abortion up to the point of viability and when medically necessary (in an attempt to bypass dishonest GOP distractions about "late-term abortion," as if anyone has an abortion on a whim in the second or third trimester). Polquin semi-sidestepped a question about whether he'd vote for a possible national abortion ban, saying abortion law should be left up to the states but not giving a firm "no." When Callaghan started to move on to a new question, Bond interrupted, asking, "Does a woman get to answer that question?" She actually offered a more direct answer than Golden, too:
This should not be legislated at all, including late-term terminations, which are not women who are harlots willy-nilly running around getting pregnant and terminating eight months. Those are families that are grieving the loss of very wanted children.
Hilariously, Callaghan's near-skipping of Bond isn't even mentioned in WCSH's reporting on the debate. [WCSH-TV]
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And that's about as bad as we've got for the moment, with the caution that it can always get worse.
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