Why I'm a Democrat 101...
I usually try to keep discussions of politics AND abortion off this blog. But if I must, I might as well kill two birds with one stone.
If you haven't heard, recently South Dakota became the first state to ban abortion... except in the case where a mother's life is in danger.
Here's where I come in. Because whenever I hear a hard to define term like "life is in danger"... I wonder how that "danger" is going to be defined. So I searched out a couple of articles... and then came across a video piece put together by PBS on the subject. It began with this summation of the South Dakota ban:
South Dakota's law makes it a crime for a doctor to perform an abortion unless the mother's life is endangered. There are no exceptions for cases in which a mother's health may be threatened or cases in which the pregnancy results from rape or incest.
Wow! Pretty harsh huh? Of course there were a few legislators who fought for some "leeway" in the whole "rape and incest" thing. Click here for AUDIO.
So "the middle", as the Democrat sees it, is where exceptions are made for rape, incest, and when the life of the mother or fetus is at risk. Sounds pretty reasonable, right?
It's at this point, the reporter interviews Republican State Senator Bill Napoli about his thoughts on such a "rape and incest" provision. Click here for AUDIO.
Now is that the kind of detail in describing a rape victim that comes off the top of one's head? Or did this guy think about this long and hard (no pun intended) before coming up with this WAY TOO DETAILED scenario?
Also, can you just see the "checkboxes" on Mr. Napoli's form that must be filled in order to allow an abortion?
I can just see a nurse with a clipboard asking the shaking victim, "Okay, so I know you say you were "raped"... uh huh... but would you consider yourself BRUTALLY raped? Okay good, and how about sodomized? Okay... was it as bad as they could make it? Alright... but would you also say you were SAVAGED? Uh huh, and you're religious? AND a virgin?"
Does this sound like "the middle" to you? How about the distant suburbs of "the middle"?
Later in the story, we discover that Mr. Napoli sees this abortion ban as a "return to traditional values". And offers up this bit of nostalgia:
When I was growing up here in the wild west, if a young man got a girl pregnant out of wedlock, they got married, and the whole darned neighborhood was involved in that wedding. I mean, you just didn't allow that sort of thing to happen, you know? I mean, they wanted that child to be brought up in a home with two parents, you know, that whole story. And so I happen to believe that can happen again.
Wow! A forced marriage that the "whole darned neighborhood" is involved in? Can't you just smell the buckshot? Traditional values ROCK!
A serious "hat tip" to this PBS article. The whole video can be seen there.
If you haven't heard, recently South Dakota became the first state to ban abortion... except in the case where a mother's life is in danger.
Here's where I come in. Because whenever I hear a hard to define term like "life is in danger"... I wonder how that "danger" is going to be defined. So I searched out a couple of articles... and then came across a video piece put together by PBS on the subject. It began with this summation of the South Dakota ban:
South Dakota's law makes it a crime for a doctor to perform an abortion unless the mother's life is endangered. There are no exceptions for cases in which a mother's health may be threatened or cases in which the pregnancy results from rape or incest.
Wow! Pretty harsh huh? Of course there were a few legislators who fought for some "leeway" in the whole "rape and incest" thing. Click here for AUDIO.
So "the middle", as the Democrat sees it, is where exceptions are made for rape, incest, and when the life of the mother or fetus is at risk. Sounds pretty reasonable, right?
It's at this point, the reporter interviews Republican State Senator Bill Napoli about his thoughts on such a "rape and incest" provision. Click here for AUDIO.
Now is that the kind of detail in describing a rape victim that comes off the top of one's head? Or did this guy think about this long and hard (no pun intended) before coming up with this WAY TOO DETAILED scenario?
Also, can you just see the "checkboxes" on Mr. Napoli's form that must be filled in order to allow an abortion?
I can just see a nurse with a clipboard asking the shaking victim, "Okay, so I know you say you were "raped"... uh huh... but would you consider yourself BRUTALLY raped? Okay good, and how about sodomized? Okay... was it as bad as they could make it? Alright... but would you also say you were SAVAGED? Uh huh, and you're religious? AND a virgin?"
Does this sound like "the middle" to you? How about the distant suburbs of "the middle"?
Later in the story, we discover that Mr. Napoli sees this abortion ban as a "return to traditional values". And offers up this bit of nostalgia:
When I was growing up here in the wild west, if a young man got a girl pregnant out of wedlock, they got married, and the whole darned neighborhood was involved in that wedding. I mean, you just didn't allow that sort of thing to happen, you know? I mean, they wanted that child to be brought up in a home with two parents, you know, that whole story. And so I happen to believe that can happen again.
Wow! A forced marriage that the "whole darned neighborhood" is involved in? Can't you just smell the buckshot? Traditional values ROCK!
A serious "hat tip" to this PBS article. The whole video can be seen there.
posted by Russell Arch at
4/27/2006
3 Comments:
SHEE-ZUS!!!
Oh, I "smell the buckshot" alright. Amongst countless other unbearable smells of what's-gone-wrong.
I almost come out of my skin everytime I hear the friggin' audio.
Russ,
Can I be a vigilante, huh, huh, can I, pleeease!!
I'll turn out in this f***ers neighborhood.
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