Today's Bad News on Choice

Today's Bad News on Choice

"Senate Democrats, saying they are seeking common ground in the nation's divisive abortion debate, offered a pregnancy prevention measure in the Senate Thursday night but it was defeated 53-47 on mostly party lines.

The measure, offered as an amendment in the Senate budget debate, included more funding for family planning, teen pregnancy programs and education about emergency contraception. It also would have expanded health insurance coverage of prescription birth control..."

South Dakota Governor Michael Rounds signed a series of antiabortion bills, including one that requires doctors to tell women that the procedure ends the lives of humans..."

We'll pause for a moment for a word from that seemingly unlikely feminist philosopher, Gwen Stefani:

"Cause I'm just a girl, little 'ol me
Don't let me out of your sight
I'm just a girl, all pretty and petite
So don't let me have any rights..."

Even more true now than it was a decade ago when she wrote it. No wonder Terri Schiavo is Miss Thing of the moment on the right. They seem to like brain dead women.

UPDATE 1: The latest move is subpoenaing her in an attempt to subvert the court order to remove the feeding tube. Which leads to this bizarre, cringe-inducing headline: GOP Asks Brain-Damaged Woman to Testify. That would be just about right.

Wonder how concerned about her "life" they'd be if she had an ectopic pregnancy?

UPDATE 2: As they pull the plug, I'm still bewildered by this bizarre fight. There's no real "winners." The husband is reviled for doing what he thinks is right, the parents let themselved be used as pawns out of their own genuine grief and irrational denial. And the people who are making the most noise have no real stake in the woman herself.

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