Whole lotta bad, whole lotta ugly:
- This is sick:
To push their agenda that fertilized eggs need to be given the exact same rights as a born, grown human, Personhood Mississippi is starting a campaign sure to catch headlines, if nothing else.
A "Conceived in Rape" tour.
- But this is even sicker:
An eastern Idaho woman faces a felony after she told authorities she took pills to terminate her pregnancy on Christmas Eve and kept the fetus in a box on her back porch for several days, according to a police report that was unsealed Tuesday.
Why did she try to terminate the pregnancy herself?
According to a police report obtained by The Associated Press, McCormack told authorities her sister ordered pills for her online and she took them to terminate her pregnancy because she did not have enough money to have the procedure done by a licensed professional.
That's what happens when the forced birthers make abortion inaccessible and unaffordable. Because women in desperate situations don't become less desperate just because it's against the law. And the $5,000 fine and five-year prison sentence she's now facing isn't going to help. Not that it matters to the "concerned" acquaintance, Brenda Carnahan, who just had to speak up for the fetus:
"I'm a grandmother myself. And the love and the compassion I have for my grandkids? They're my life. And I felt that if somebody didn't speak up for this baby, who would? It doesn't have a voice anymore," Carnahan said.
And thanks to Grandma Carnahan, three actual living children, ages 2, 11 and 17, could lose their mother for the next five years. Because that's what being "pro-life" really means: save the fetus, screw the children.
- And speaking of screwing children and their mothers:
Last week, Gov. Rick Scott cut close to $2 million in health services for at-risk women and children in line-item vetoes to the state budget. Among the projects cut was $200,000 for a pilot program to be carried out by the Healthy Start Coalition of Orange County that would have provided specialized care for high-risk first-time mothers throughout the county.
- Guess who would be hit hardest by the Republican plan to kill Medicare?
- Despite the official "no women in combat" policy, women really are fighting—and dying—in combat. Maybe we should think about admitting that so they can get the training they need and deserve.
- Indiana is determined to screw poor women, even if it means losing all Medicaid funding and violating federal law.
- Serious question: Just how many women need to run for president before the media will stop wondering whether Americans are ready for women to run for president? Not even be president, just run for president. 'Cause, you know, none of these women brought about an apocalypse. Maybe it's time to stop asking.