by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Trent Franks is a congressman from Arizona who is basically a one-trick pony. Mr. Franks' primary objective in serving in the House of Representative is to make life hell for women seeking abortions. He is a highly focused (obsessed) vagina-master who is determined that women's rights over their own bodies be tightly limited and controlled by men like him, men who know what is best for women.
Yesterday Franks managed to get a bill passed in Congress, one which dealt with (of course) abortions. Franks new legislation would make it illegal for a physician to perform or attempt to perform an abortion after twenty weeks of pregnancy. Failure to strictly adhere to the Franks' law could result in a fine, up to five years in prison, or both. The bill passed the House on a fairly straight-line party vote of 237-189, with most Republicans self-righteously and sanctimoniously defending the "rights" of the fetus.
Lindsey Graham plans to introduce a companion bill in the Senate. Passage in the Senate will be more difficult because sixty votes will be required.
The White House is on record as "strongly" supportive of the Franks' legislation and applauding "the House of Representatives for continuing its efforts to secure critical pro-life protections."
Yeah, right.
Also in the news this week:
On September 30th the same House of Representatives allowed the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to expire. CHIP is mostly funded by the federal government. It helps over nine million children receive low-cost health care.
Conservative politicians have long been accused of believing that life begins at conception and ends at birth. This week many of them have moved aggressively to cement themselves into that hypocrisy.
And it is the children who suffer.
Citizen Journalist
Trent Franks is a congressman from Arizona who is basically a one-trick pony. Mr. Franks' primary objective in serving in the House of Representative is to make life hell for women seeking abortions. He is a highly focused (obsessed) vagina-master who is determined that women's rights over their own bodies be tightly limited and controlled by men like him, men who know what is best for women.
Yesterday Franks managed to get a bill passed in Congress, one which dealt with (of course) abortions. Franks new legislation would make it illegal for a physician to perform or attempt to perform an abortion after twenty weeks of pregnancy. Failure to strictly adhere to the Franks' law could result in a fine, up to five years in prison, or both. The bill passed the House on a fairly straight-line party vote of 237-189, with most Republicans self-righteously and sanctimoniously defending the "rights" of the fetus.
Lindsey Graham plans to introduce a companion bill in the Senate. Passage in the Senate will be more difficult because sixty votes will be required.
The White House is on record as "strongly" supportive of the Franks' legislation and applauding "the House of Representatives for continuing its efforts to secure critical pro-life protections."
Yeah, right.
Also in the news this week:
On September 30th the same House of Representatives allowed the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to expire. CHIP is mostly funded by the federal government. It helps over nine million children receive low-cost health care.
Conservative politicians have long been accused of believing that life begins at conception and ends at birth. This week many of them have moved aggressively to cement themselves into that hypocrisy.
And it is the children who suffer.
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