Self-contradicting conservative rationalization is playing out in Florida courts, where a circuit judge, then a state appeals court, ruled a pregnant 16-year-old is not “sufficiently mature to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy.” (See NBC News story here.) Florida law requires minors to g[...]
Posts Tagged ‘abortion’
The unintended consequences of hasty abortion bans
I grew up in a conservative community, and as a juvenile, my political thinking was conservative, too. Not just because everyone around me thought that way, but because conservatives’ black-and-white worldview seemed to make everything clear and simple: There’s right vs. wrong, good vs. [...]
August 8th, 2022 - 5:34 pm § in Politics
What’s next, fourth trimester abortions?
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) thinks so. In a fundraising email to supporters on Monday, August 8, 2022, he warned, “If we don’t take back the Senate, Dems will pack the courts, give DC statehood, grant abortions up to 52 weeks, and Republicans will never win again.” See that and several othe[...]
Ron DeSantis’s hypocrisy
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis (photo, left), who wants to be president, suspended Tampa’s twice-elected Democratic prosecutor on Thursday, August 4, 2022, “for pledging not to enforce the state’s new 15-week abortion ban and for supporting gender-affirming treatments for minorsR[...]
What happened in Kansas?
Kansas voters soundly rejected Republican efforts to amend the state constitution to pave the way for the legislature to ban abortions, which is being hailed as a “massive victory” for abortion supporters. Now pundits everywhere are reading all sorts of things into it. Let’s try to[...]
July 27th, 2022 - 11:53 am § in Politics
How to give a speech in 45 seconds
West Virginia’s legislature is considering a bill to prohibit abortions, with no exceptions for rape or incest. Of course it’ll pass; that legislature is over two-thirds Republican (78-22 in the lower house, 23-11 in the senate), and the GOP governor will sign it. Citizen input is a mer[...]
July 25th, 2022 - 3:21 pm § in Politics
Texas political ad goes viral
This ad has gone viral, with over 2.7 million views, but it probably doesn’t bother Gov. Abbott, who’s heavily favored in polls. The real problem isn’t Abbott, it’s Texas voters. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
July 19th, 2022 - 1:02 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Indiana AG bullying abortion doctor hit with lawsuit and bar complaint
Todd Rokita (photo, right), the GOP attorney general who’s harassing a doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim, is facing repercussions. Rokita falsely claimed on Fox News that Dr. Caitlin Bernard failed to report the abortion and has “a history” of reporting [...]
July 15th, 2022 - 7:18 pm § in Politics
GOP abortion warriors victimize innocent doctor and girl
A 10-year-old rape victim and an innocent doctor have been snared by the GOP’s abortion warriors and it’s ugly. First they claimed the girl didn’t exist; then the rapist was arrested. Next, Indiana’s GOP attorney general threatened the doctor for not reporting it; but she did. Now he’s th[...]
July 13th, 2022 - 2:30 pm § in Health, Law and Courts
Ohio denied abortion to 10-year-old victim; GOPers disputed it happened
This story has been updated. “A 10-year-old child abuse victim was forced to seek an abortion in Indiana after her home state of Ohio barred abortion following the Supreme Court decision to overturn of Roe v. Wade,” the Daily Mail, a U.K.-based tabloid, said in a story published on F[...]