Danika | 21 | Boise | Cellist | Feminist | Studying Sociology and Gender Studies at Boise State University | Pug mom
Refer to me as Khaleesi
This guy’s name is Pro Life and he runs for governor in Idaho almost every time the governor position is up for re-election. I just remembered he exists.
Did I mention he changed his name to PRO LIFE?
BECAUSE HE DID
Chuck Winder, Idaho Lawmaker, Suggests Women Use Rape As Excuse For Abortions
The sponsor of an Idaho mandatory ultrasound bill , state Sen. Chuck Winder, made some highly controversial comments Monday during his closing arguments, suggesting women might falsely use rape as an excuse to obtain an abortion.
Just before the Idaho’s Senate passed the bill, which requires woman to have an ultrasound prior to obtaining an abortion, opponents of the bill pointed out that it makes no exception for rape victims, incest victims or women in medical emergencies.
Winder, a Republican from Boise, responded to those concerns by raising the question of whether women understand when they have been raped.
“Rape and incest was used as a reason to oppose this,” Winder said on the Senate floor. “I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape. I assume that’s part of the counseling that goes on.”
Women reported 84,767 “forcible rapes” in the United States in 2010, according to the FBI’s most recent Uniform Crime Report ; the figure does not include statutory rape, incest or any other kind of rape that falls outside the FBI’s narrow definition of the crime.
If Winder’s mandatory ultrasound bill becomes law, a victim of rape or incest or a woman with a medical emergency who is seeking an abortion must obtain an ultrasound first and the state will provide a list of providers. Nearly every provider of free ultrasounds in Idaho is a “crisis pregnancy center ,” which aims to dissuade women from having an abortion. The woman would also have to obtain from a doctor a second ultrasound, which would involve an invasive transvaginal procedure if she is in her first trimester of pregnancy . Even if she averts her eyes from the ultrasound image and refuses to listen to the fetal heartbeat, she would have to hear the doctor describe the fetus in detail.
Proponents of the bill describe it as one more way to protect “unborn children,” with the assumption that the ultrasound procedure and anti-abortion counseling might sway women against having an abortion. Opponents argue that it forces doctors to perform medically unnecessary procedures and contributes to the emotional anguish of women who have already made a very difficult decision.
One woman wrote last week about her painful experience with Texas’ new mandatory ultrasound law in the Texas Observer , in which she had to listen to a doctor describe the gravely ill fetus that she had sought to abort to protect her own health.
The state Senate voted 23 to 12 to pass the controversial ultrasound bill on Monday, with all seven Democrats and five Republicans against it. The Republican-controlled House is also expected to pass the measure.
“Fellow senators, as a woman and as a person of faith, this bill makes me want to cry,” said state Sen. Diane Bilyeu, a Democrat. “I want an end to abortion as well as all of you do, and I am totally opposed to abortion except in the case of rape, incest or the life of the mother. But I find this bill to be intrusive into my faith, and it is punitive as a woman.”
How to create more jobs in the U.S. from a Republican standpoint:
- Make birth control expensive as fuck so less women will be able to afford it and more women will experience surprise or unwanted pregnancies
- Withdraw funding from Planned Parenthood
- Make abortions illegal or even more emotionally traumatizing to discourage anyone from going through with the process
- Don’t require paid maternity leave at places of employment
- Women quit jobs or are fired so they can spend time with their offspring
- Their husbands can then take over their jobs
- Ergo, everyone important in this country will have a job
- Let’s make pornography illegal because it’s misogynistic
- Cha-ching
JOB CRISIS SOLVED. You’re welcome, America.
Love,
The Republican Party
Somebody’s Got to Save This Country From Certain Doom, And Let’s Face It, That Person Is Me—by Michelle Bachmann (via the Onion)
Our country faces a moment of extreme crisis. We stand at the verge of an utter breakdown of our economy, our government, and our way of life. Democracy itself is at a crossroads, and without proper guidance, the United States of America will face grave times ahead. During this period of great tumult, someone needs to step in and fix these complex and enormous problems, and when it comes to the question of who is truly up to this task, I think we can all agree that person is—hands down and without question—me, Michele Bachmann.
Look at it logically for a minute. Of the 300 million people in the United States, who stands out as the one most capable of uniting a divided country and fixing a fractured Congress? Talk about a no-brainer. With my track record of urging white people to take back America, attending a church that believes the pope is the Antichrist, and advocating “conversion therapy” as a means to cure homosexuality, I’m clearly the only legitimate choice to become the next leader of the free world.
You know it and I know it.
It’s just a plain and simple fact: When you close your eyes and think, “President of the United States of America,” whose face immediately pops into your mind? Of course it’s mine. After all, this is the face of a woman who instills confidence in the entire populace by having no understanding of basic American history and making a huge public outcry over a proposed change in lightbulbs.
We all know the outcome of this election is a foregone conclusion, and I personally wish we could just get it over with already so I could get to work abolishing the minimum wage and making sure public schools start teaching creationism.
Thank GOD for The Onion.
