Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Have a Miscarriage, Go to Jail for Murder

That may sound far-fetched. However, I submit, Gentle Reader, that if the so-called "Personhood Amendment" passes in Mississippi, that is exactly what will happen.

A woman who is has a difficult pregnancy in Mississippi will run the risk of prison time or not inconceivably, being executed. If you don't believe that prosecutors in Mississippi will not end up targeting poor mothers who had miscarriages and trying to send those mothers to prison, if not Death Row, then I respectfully submit that you should read up on the sheer vindictiveness of the legal system in that part of this nation.

10 comments:

randompawses said...

And it'll likely be up to the woman to PROVE she didn't do anything to cause the miscarriage, rather than up the the State to prove she did. Never mind that a goodly number of pregnancies end before a woman even realizes she's pregnant. Any sexually active, presumably fertile, woman is at risk.

(Trying again, typos corrected.)

Nangleator said...

We really ought to call in the military to evacuate all female humans from that toxic hellhole, (and any sane males if they exist,) then seal its borders for a century.

Stewart Dean said...

Nangleator said: "then seal its borders for a century." Oh, I don't know if it would ever be safe to unseal the border....no telling what would grow. More sunlight is what's needed.

Improbable Joe said...

Yeah, but hey. Lower taxes and all the guns you can afford, right?

Eck! said...

Seems MS is trying to become the first, Republic of Gilead.

If that is unfamiliar read Handmaids Tale. It was science fiction in 1987.

The whole thing is full of fail and sickness.

Eck!

montag said...

All the women who fail to implant would be guilty under the new law. but how would anyone know? The state will obviously need to establish a new law enforcement agency to police every Mississippi woman's no longer privates.

Comrade Misfit said...

If we ever resume above-ground nuclear testing, let's start with Jackson, MS.

The New York Crank said...

Hey folks, chill! Just chll out. Chill, I said!

The proposition got voted down (Yes, In Mississippi!) six to four.

Maybe those folks have more common sense than we've been giving them credit for. Maybe the crazy right is more fried than you'd think.

Yours crankily,
The New York Crank.

Dr. Bubbles said...

NY Crank: it went down 55/45 (10-pt diff, not 20).

What interests me is that pre-vote opinion polls showed a 45-44-11 (y-n-?) distribution, meaning that almost all of the "undecidededs" went against it. This makes me wonder how undecided they were.

The New York Crank said...

Actually, Dr. Bubbles, the Washington Post is putting it at 59 to 41 percent. A difference of eighteen points, not ten.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/anti-abortion-personhood-amendment-fails-in-mississippi/2011/11/08/gIQASRPd3M_blog.html

Why are we fighting among ourtselves? It must be YOUR fault.

Very crankily yours,
The New York Crank