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WASHINGTON (AP) - One of President Barack Obama's first acts Tuesday was to put the brakes on all pending regulations that the Bush administration tried to push through in its waning days.
Let the sh** stirring commence!!!
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Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
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LOXAHATCHEE, FL -- A Loxahatchee resident is rattled after he says he came home Sunday evening to find his vehicle and home spray painted with racist graffiti and anti-Obama messages.
"Live with a man 40 years, share his house, his meals, speak one very subject. Then tie him up and hold him over the volcano's edge. And on that day you will finally meet the man"
- Book, Firefly
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The other day on Slate's Political Gabfest, I heard an interesting story about a new law in New Hampshire. Effective November 1st, all doctors must do an ultrasound before performing an abortion.
Most clinics already perform ultrasounds to determine gestation. No, the part that gets me is the new law states that the doctor doing the ultrasound, must "provide a simultaneous explanation of what the ultrasound is depicting," and also "display the ultrasound images so that the pregnant woman may view them."
The law goes so far as to specify the doctor's script: The physician must describe the heartbeat and the presence of internal organs, fingers, and toes. The patient then has to certify in writing that the doctor or technician duly did all of this before the abortion. The law also requires that after this ultrasound is performed, the doctor must wait at least one hour before performing the abortion. Probably, so the woman can stew in her own slutty guilt.
I could go on and on...and on about how this smacks of pro-lifers trying to guilt women into not getting in an abortion. I could also say there is something very condescending and paternalistic about the government thinking a woman can't decide what to do with her own body without the government's "protection".....but I won't.
Slate does a much better job of getting my point across and with bigger words. No, I want to hear what you think.
Comment below. Your opinion is important to me...mostly.
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Been dying to hear the dulcet tones of yours truly? Tune in to Saphronia and her pals Peaches and Aquababie on the SlamEvil podcast.
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No cable? Catch the debate in realtime by clicking on the title above and later check back to read how I dissect some particularly heinous quotes from each candidate in the most inane way possible.
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