abortion rights

This is the Paul Stam's vision for North Carolina. Save zygotes, execute the women who dare to choose abortion.

An amendment facing voters in Mississippi would declare a fertilized human egg to be a legal person, effectively branding abortion and some birth control as murder.

There's nothing "effectively" or "branding" about this. The Tarheel Taliban judge abortion and morning-after birth control as a capital crime. Fry those murdering mothers. That'll show everybody who's in charge of this f/cked up state.

Previously.

Gene Nichol nails it.

Meanwhile, your tax dollars will be spent defending Republican over-reach.

If the pregnant woman objects, the physician is required to proceed with the government-mandated instruction. Thankfully perhaps, the law doesn't demand that the patient be restrained from closing her eyes or covering her ears. But if she chooses to do so, her doctor, against his own preference and considered medical determination, must continue to show the images and repeat the state's command.

I'm not kidding. This isn't some odd addendum to George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four." It is the law of North Carolina.

RIP

The Republican assault on women in North Carolina continues unabated.

From their illegal ban on governments doing business with the Planned Parenthood organization to their intrusion into the privacy of doctor-patient relationships, the misogynists in the GOP will not stop until women are fully and permanently subjugated to the will of men.

If you care about the rights of women to control their own bodies, if you care about ensuring that women have access to safe health services, please support Planned Parenthood.

Overreaching on abortion rights will become a lightning rod for blow-back against the Republican Party in North Carolina, inspiring renewed activism and support for reproductive rights. It will be a long, hard battle and we need your help.

If North Carolina Republicans have their way, the Old North State will join the likes of Mississippi and South Carolina in 2012, criminalizing miscarriage and abortion. Inspired by the zygote zealots at the NC Family Policy Council, they're now pushing a "life begins at conception" agenda that follows the road straight to hell.

Rennie Gibbs is accused of murder, but the crime she is alleged to have committed does not sound like an ordinary killing. Yet she faces life in prison in Mississippi over the death of her unborn child. Gibbs became pregnant aged 15, but lost the baby in December 2006 in a stillbirth when she was 36 weeks into the pregnancy. When prosecutors discovered that she had a cocaine habit, though there is no evidence that drug abuse had anything to do with the baby’s death, they charged her with the “depraved-heart murder” of her child, which carries a mandatory life sentence.

Here at home, of course, that mandatory life sentence will never happen. As abortion and miscarriage morph into capital crimes, life in prison will be replaced by the death penalty. And mothers who have abortions or miscarriages in our state will be executed as the murdering whores in the true tradition of the Tarheel Taliban.

You think I'm kidding?

The more I read about the Planned Parenthood suit against the State of North Carolina, the more convinced I am that the state's position is indefensible. Check out this post by Paige Johnson and help spread the word. The state didn't just cut funding to this excellent health service provider, the state instituted a ban against doing business with them. This is classic Republican over-reaching, and it is already costing taxpayers who have to fund a losing defense.

Hat tip to Progressive Pulse for coverage of a bold move by Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina. Read all about it.

The Republican-controlled legislature made it clear they did not want spend any money to fund Planned Parenthood in their new budget. Now it appears they will have to spend money fighting the organization in court. Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina (PPCNC) filed suit Thursday in federal court to invalidate part of the budget that cuts off federal and state funds for family planning.

Republicans in Raleigh have what can only be called an abortion fetish, free to run roughshod over poor people and women without restraint. But when they picked a fight this year with Janet Colm, president and CEO of PPCNC, they picked a fight with the wrong person. Janet is the most effective and toughest executive I've ever met, and she doesn't take crap from anyone.

Mother Jones pokes under this rock of a bill:

What's more interesting is what North Carolina's bill doesn't say. For example, it doesn't make any distinctions for pregnancies that are the result of rape or incest. So a 16-year-old girl who's been impregnated by her stepfather would have to go through the same waiting period, and hear the same information about adoption, as any other woman. (Note: the bill defines "woman" as "a female human, whether or not she is an adult")

Hat-tip to underwoodchamp for the sweet Tweet.

The odious Virginia Foxxxxxxx weighs in today with a new proposal to unfund medical schools that teach doctors how to perform abortions. Next they'll be unfunding journalism schools that teach students to write words that start with the letter "A."

I really hope you don't find yourself a victim of uterine cancer, Virginia Foxx. Any decent doctor who could help you would almost certainly decide to let your wicked old body just drop dead. I sure wouldn't blame them.