While defending his decision to sign a bill restricting legalized abortion, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant made cringe-worthy allegations against the left over the controversial topic.
"The hypocrisy of the left, that now tried to kill this bill, that says I should have never signed it, the true hypocrisy is that their one mission in life is to abort children, is to kill children in the womb," Bryant said on a conservative radio show on Tuesday. "And it doesn't really matter, they don't care that if the mother's life is in jeopardy, that if something goes wrong, a doctor can't admit them to a local hospital, that he's not even board-certified." You can hear the audio above.
The newly signed piece of legislation, which goes into effect July 1, requires doctors performing abortions at a clinic to be certified as an OB-GYN with admitting privileges at a hospital.
One Democratic leader from the state said his comments went way too far.
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Amazing.. you mean. should something go Wrong ( which happens) the Doctor would have to be certified to sign people ( women) into a hospital..? This Is Outrageous! The Gov. must hate women!!
Huhhh...that's standard operating procedure for every hospital in the country, I believe.
the democratic main mission in life is not to abort "children".
the right wing nuts hate it when they feel a democrat has misrepresented their stance on a certain issue, like violence against women, or interest rates on student loans.
the hypocrisy of the right is that they only care about "children" who cannot live outside the womb. once they are born, they are on their own.
ask paul ryan.
The Liberals know their many over the top "entitlement" programs are looking as if they will bankrupt the country just as they are showing to do in Southern Europe now to those nations.
So how about a nationally mandated insurance program that forces employers to pay for co-pay free contraceptives and the caustic unstudied for safety for young women abortion causing Plan B. Sound like a plan, hmmm?
Of course, the folks that get hurt the worst by this campaign are the young women of the lower level socio-economic strata in our society, often the ethnic and racial minorities they court as their voting base. Quite demonical if you look at it that way now, hmmm suzzette?
Keith: birth control actually saves governments money. In this economy, the women (often MARRIED women) who use birth control would otherwise be applying for Medicaid, WIC, Peachcare (in GA) and would have trouble with mortgage payments, further deepening the housing crisis.
There are also MARRIED women who can have a medically necessary abortion, that would otherwise bankrupt them and raise insurance rates if they had to carry to term. If you are exposed to cytalomegalo virus while pregnant (a common flu-like virus), then your child will live a very brief and painful life. I learned I had not been exposed yet through giving blood at the Red Cross. Should I bankrupt myself and be a burden on my employer's insurance, or should my husband and I have the right to terminate and either try again or adopt? By the way, I'm white. White Album white. The new Georgia law makes it unclear whether I would have that choice - depends on how many weeks in I get exposed. Do you have a sterile bunker I can hide out in for 9 months, Keith?
georgiawoman:
Well, your arguments make sense, but no one is going without contraceptives in this country, as the cost of the co-pays on the insurance certainly aren't very much at all, and the old standbys of diaphaphrams and condoms still work just fine.
But if women who didn't have insurance wanted contraceptives and couldn't afford them they had the free federally financed clinics and the charitable institutions such as Planned Parenthood to turn to.
The good Ms. Sandra Fluke had only to take a bus ride over to the closest Planned Parenhood clinic in Washington, DC from her Georgetown apartment (pretty ritizy living, that) to get her contraceptives. But she preferred the route of going to a show hearing set up by the Democrats instead to make her case to the country for the federal government to mandate employers and insurance companies to make them available at demand for "free", knowing that nothing is free, that someone would be paying for it in heightened insurance premiums and co-pays for other prescriptions.
However, the Supreme Court will be dismanteling the Obama Non-Affordable Care Act anyway, so its a moot question after June anyhow, and they are not about to negate the Hyde Amendment in Congress anyday soon to continue to bar federal funds to be used for abortions.
keith,
the charitable institutions like Planned Parenthood that you refer to DO NOT EXIST IN EVERY COMMUNITY. they simply do not exist as you all seem to think they do.
another thing that you appear to be unaware of because you are a male, is that birth control is not covered on every insurance plan. and yes, you can get generic's at walmart very cheaply, but not all people can take generic drugs, and not all women can take generic birth control. not that you may care, but, as a general rule, brand name medications are much more expensive than generics (3,000.00 compared to 120.00) and they also do not have the side affects that the generic drugs do. women should have affordable brand name medication if that is what they need.
women's health care has always been an issue as far as coverage. we also pay more, as our bodies are more complex. men take it for granted that their health care needs will be met and paid for, because they ARE, including viagra and cialis.
but NOT contraception.
having a uterus is a pre-existing condition.
And it is all a prerequisite for the diagnosis of hysteria, I believe.
So the righties in miss. believe it is their mission to stop the left's alleged mission to abort children
Quick question I thought the right's mission was jobs....did you guys abandon that already?
Women's rights of choice in the workplace. Not tax payer paid abortion or "free" contraception, but the right to a job if they choose to work.
5,000,000 jobs lost in Obama's years of failed policies and practices in office, and 90% of them lost by women.
Connecticut is no religious right wing bastion. But yesterday, on a mild, low 60s sunshine filled day on the Capital building grounds in Hartford a rally was held for "women's rights", specifically rights to choose abortion organized by the Democrat Party with the key speakers being our Governor's wife and our Lt. Governor (a woman), and a slew of other Democrat Party luminaries including "progressive" Sentator Richard Blumenthall. With signs citing the "Republican War on Women" and incredible hyperbole such as control over their bodies and taking women back to the Salem Witch Trial days (although there are no legislative efforts to do any of that nonsense) some 100 liberally counted women, men, and children held forth under the watchful eyes of protestors that were holding signs promoting Right to Life. A competing Right to Life rally in the weeks previously had drawn 600.
These numbers are small potatoes indeed, for such a trumped up, ballihooded issue in the national media, and for all the big name talant appearing as the draw here, it just goes to show that this Democrat Party ploy to distract from the Obama administration's and the Democrats in Congress's economic, fiscal, energy, defense, and health care failings...(something they don't want to run on)...these effort fell flat on its face!
Today, ABC had a great roundtable discussion on the Economy on its news and commentary Sunday show, and NBC in their premier Sunday news and commentary show had a similar discussion hijacked by MSNBC's Rachal Maddow, who used every liberal trick in the book including talking over, interrupting others incessantly, and using discredited statistics to attempt to prove a case of a "Republican War on Women". As if what Iowa and South Carolina state legislatures dealing with questions about abortion regulation for women who are victims of rape and incest had anything to do with the National Republian Party, Mitt Romney's candidacy, and the sorry state of the economy and women's respectful rights to a job if they choose to work.
NBC would best return to their previous success of booking one of CNBC's financial analysist and commentators such as Maria Bartelomo or Becky Quick or even the irrepressible comedic Jim Cramer to discuss economic policies and practices, instead of the socialist women's and lesbian, gay, and transgendered suffragette Rachal Maddow if they wish to keep an audience. But, of course, they are in the tank for Obama, just as is MSNBC, so you get what they want you to get, which is senseless distraction from the real issues of this election.