Intro: "Mississippi state Rep. Bubba Carpenter (R) said that it's OK for women to have coat-hanger abortions because it's for a greater good."
Mississippi lawmaker Bubba Carpenter has said that coat-hanger abortions are OK. (photo: public domain)
Coat-Hanger Abortions Are Fine, Says Mississippi Lawmaker
16 May 12
ississippi state Rep. Bubba Carpenter (R) said that it's OK for women to have coat hanger abortions because it's for a greater good.
A video obtained by Rachel Maddow's blog captures Carpenter saying he is proud of Mississippi's attempts to outlaw abortion outright, despite the fact that the Supreme Court has ruled abortions legal in the United States.
And what about women who will perform self-induced abortions because they cannot afford to go out of state to get the procedure? “Hey,” he says, “you have to have moral values”:
It's going to be challenged, of course, in the Supreme Court and all - but literally, we stopped abortion in the state of Mississippi, legally, without having to- Roe vs. Wade. So we've done that. I was proud of it. The governor signed it into law. And of course, there you have the other side. They're like, ‘Well, the poor pitiful women that can't afford to go out of state are just going to start doing them at home with a coat hanger. That's what we've learned over and over and over.'
But hey, you have to have moral values. You have to start somewhere, and that’s what we've decided to do. This became law and the governor signed it, and I think for one time, we were first in the nation in the state of Mississippi
Watch it:
Mississippi recently passed a law meant that legislators claimed was meant to stop self-induced abortions, known as “coat hanger abortions,” which are generally extremely unsafe and dangerous to a woman's health. At the same time, this law will likely force the state's only abortion clinic to close.
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What more can we expect from someone named "Bubba?" Yup, Mississippi is leading the nation alright . . . they now -- officially -- have the stupidest legislator on the planet. Do we need any further proof that minimum IQ tests for those holding public office should be required? Roe v. Wade will never rest as long as these twisted nut-jobs are given a national platform to parade their ignorance upon.
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You are right, MI is ranked #1 in infant mortality rates.
See http://www.census.gov/statab/ranks/rank17.html
Of the top 10, 7 of them are southern states. The other 3 are Alaska (4), Delaware (5), and Ohio (8). Apparently, the officials of these and so many more states have no shame at all.
But hey, the US can't brag either -- we rank 34 among the 194 countries of the world. A sad state of affairs for a country that calls itself the "greatest" in the world.
Each year of the "approximately 2 million women who experience pregnancy loss" in the U.S. the following causes are noted in the statistics: 1) "600,000 women experience pregnancy loss through miscarriage; 2) "64,000…through ectopic pregnancy; 3) "6,000…through molar pregnancies; 4) "26,000…through stillbirth" (American Pregnancy Association). Medline Plus: "…miscarriage rate is about 15-20%".
Did a god, or "the God", purposely install a unique "soul" in all those fetuses? Does that fetus "soul" have an 'afterlife' per any (or all) current theology(s)? Do even those fetuses without a developing brain have a "soul" that goes to "heaven"? (Having had little time to commit any 'sins', let alone the physical organ necessary to form the required 'intentionality ' to commit a 'sin', where else could such a "soul" end-up in any 'afterlife' scenario?)
Given these statistics we can assume the possibility exists that a high percentage of the "souls" in "heaven" never had a fair chance of committing a sin that might allow them to at least visit the "other place" (or places in between). Heaven is most likely overrun with such "souls"!
Belief in superstitions and the supernatural can lead to dysfunctional policy decisions in our institutions, especially our governmental institutions.
So how do we get back to the state of sanity?
80% of women believe that others should stay out of settled issues and that men should back off issues affecting women's privacy. No contraception? Unbelievable.Pe ople without jobs definitely need more mouths to feed.
Bubba should use his coat hanger for his personally-perf ormed prostate exam but then it might perforate his brain.
MS doesn't condemn barbarians, it rewards them by placing them into office. Case in point: this schmuck and Haley Barbour whose infamous pardons last Christmas just led to the conviction of one of the men he set free. Charge? DUI. His 3rd conviction, it would have been his fourth but it was wiped away by Barbour. So he was free to roam and what did he do? He killed an 18-year-old girl.
Let's hear it for MS, the shining example of brilliance and forward thinking.
For the sake of sanity & to give this country the chance to provide equal rights to ALL: Obama/Biden in November. Period.
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