Kasich becomes the NEW Governor Ultrasound!

[Bo-4]

More nonsense in Ohio as to what THEY think women should and shouldn't do with their own bodies. And this time, they buried it in the state budget... with no debate!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/30/ohio-abortion-restrictions-budget-bill_n_3526844.html

And here they are: a gaggle of smirking middle aged white men as they lovingly coddle the former Fox News rube and dream of the day when every zygote will carry a concealed weapon to protect themselves ... from Mom.

 

[JackDallas]

Kudos to Kasich for protecting babies from wild animals.

 

[GLXYCBD]

Gee u woulda thought that the morning after pill or something similar woulda rendered this debate moot by now..

 

[Drumcollie]

Gee u woulda thought that the morning after pill or something similar woulda rendered this debate moot by now..

excellent point...or even abstinence

 

[Bo-4]

excellent point...or even abstinence

Lol.. abstinence only education is working wonders in the deep south, home to the highest teen pregnancy rates in the country. ;-)

 

[fairsheet]

I'm not quite getting all this baloney. These GOP governors know damn well that what they're doing runs afoul of the Constitution, which of course, is WHY they're doing it.

One good thing for all, is that each is officially taking himself out of the running for president in 2016. Beyond that though, what's their thinking? Perhaps it's that they'd best act while the iron's hot with the radical-5 on the current court? But....where to they go with that? If The Court UPholds them, the GOP name will be forever shit, with younger and/or female Americans. And if The Court shoots them down?....what then....if a putatively CONSERVATIVE court doesn't agree with them?

 

[Cerulean Mutt]

It all goes back to how Republicans think women are too stupid to realize what being pregnant means. Why else would they require them to look at an ultrasound of their fetus before an abortion?

 

[fairsheet]

It all goes back to how Republicans think women are too stupid to realize what being pregnant means. Why else would they require them to look at an ultrasound of their fetus before an abortion?

It's just that I've never considered any of this bullshit, to be anything more than a very useful wedgie for the GOP. Otherwise, they wouldn't have done absolutely NOTHING on the subject during the time they "owned" our entire guvmint at the beginning this Millennium. So...I don't imagine I'll ever be seeing this one as a matter of some sort of pure morality play.

So....what ARE these GOPs thinking right now? Are they all just SO afraid of being "primaried"?

 

[Cerulean Mutt]

So....what ARE these GOPs thinking right now? Are they all just SO afraid of being "primaried"?

Bingo.

Also, It's all about the continual erosion of abortion rights with the ultimate goal of outlawing it in everything but name. They do this by requiring medically unnecessary ultrasounds that add to the cost of the abortion. By adding waiting periods between the initial consultation and the actual procedure. By instituting extraordinary building code requirements exclusively aimed at closing down isolated abortion clinics. By requiring doctors providing abortions to have visiting privelages at local hospitals because many abortion clinics use out of town physicians because no local physicians will perform them.

 

[fairsheet]

Bingo.

Also, It's all about the continual erosion of abortion rights with the ultimate goal of outlawing it in everything but name. They do this by requiring medically unnecessary ultrasounds that add to the cost of the abortion. By adding waiting periods between the initial consultation and the actual procedure. By instituting extraordinary building code requirements exclusively aimed at closing down isolated abortion clinics. By requiring doctors providing abortions to have visiting privelages at local hospitals because many abortion clinics use out of town physicians because no local physicians will perform them.

What you're suggesting here, WILL be the subject of a federal case in the near future. Our Constitution guarantees a woman's right to choose abortion, within certain time limits. If a state can be shown to be actively limiting a woman's choice in that regard, for whatEVER reason, a case could be made that the state's violating her rights.

Now a state (like Texas) COULD argue that their new regimes are purely altruistic and only aimed at protecting the health of pregnant women. And, I would suggest that that's all well and good, except to the extent that they make it MORE difficult for a woman to exercise her right. So..the huge State of Texas pass laws that reduce the number of legal abortion clinics to five. Fine....but, the state should need to pay the transportation and lodging costs of any of its residents that chooses abortion. And.....wouldn't THAT be a fine "how do you do"!

 

[NightSwimmer]

I'm not quite getting all this baloney. These GOP governors know damn well that what they're doing runs afoul of the Constitution, which of course, is WHY they're doing it.

The only reason they do this is to keep their base in line. They are pandering to the same brain-dead, mouth breathing idiot Republicans who post here on PJ. Aside from depraved sociopathic hatred, they have nothing to offer these folks to keep them securely within the GOP tent.

One would think that the leaders of the GOP would have realized by now that these fruitcakes have nowhere else to go. It's not as if any of them would ever vote for a Democrat. I can only assume that the leaders aren't much brighter than are the followers.