I'm going to be a proud Father! I am so bemused with myself, the first order of business is to create a spreadsheet. After all, my child is now a corporation!
That is, in terms of what the Republicans plan to introduce as a constitutional amendment.
One may purchase both prenatal vitamins and family plot - theoretically - and write them both off, enjoying the luxury of the same tax exemptions corporations do.
But you may want to read the fine print:
"The genome of this person is no longer available because the patent associated with this DNA sequence has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement claims pursuant to the Universal Corporate Tax Code section xii".
When Mississippi voters turned down measure 23 - a right wing anti-abortion campaign to criminalize abortion - a collective breath was given for the freedom of persons who have a womb. It is the woman who is under direct fire, for her right to bear or to not bear child is at stake.
The proposed state constitutional amendment would have defined a person "to include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the functional equivalent thereof."
This sounds like a mouthful, but essentially what this means is that under no circumstances are abortions permitted. If you are pregnant, you keep it.
It appears the Job-Killing Republican Party has picked this issue up on the campaign trail, and every candidate has weighed in. And, even though the personhood measure had failed in Mississippi , each of these candidates had declared they would enact a Federal Mandate if elected President of the United States.
It's not really about whether this challenge falls to popular vote (it won't), nor whether the opinion of either of the candidates matter (it won't either). If it's anything like the National Defense Authorization Act, there is not much to talk about because the decision would already be made; there will not be much of a voice from the people. The votes will be cast and it will become law.
Republicans Kill Jobs - Again
An obscure reference to a Kansas City Star article in 2009 reported that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) had decided to purchase condoms from foreign companies in a move that cost around 300 American jobs. The agency had considered those jobs that were slated to be lost, but foreign condoms costs 2 cents, where American ones cost about 5 cents.
Under new proposed rules, even retailers would not bother stocking contraceptives of any kind, including banning "birth control measures which interfere with a fertilized egg attaching itself to the uterine wall, including fertility treatments...".
Federal law to ban the use of prophylactics draw a line in the sand of decency and common sense. There are no alternatives. Sponge? No way. Diaphragm accessories? Illegal. Chasity belts? Leave it to the courts to decide.
By repealing the Affordable Heathcare Act, how exactly do Romney, Bachmann and Gingrich plan to shield taxpayers from the burden of costly garbage dumpster baby investigations?
Somebody from that GOP podium should tell our fertile and very sexually active America that they have to take a cold shower, and while your at it, be sure to vote Republican.
Lest we forget their importance, words can kill people if used incorrectly, quotes Judy Brown in her revised version of the Federal Personhood Amendment pdf. She goes on to contrast cases where court rulings conflict with scientific proof.
Each GOP candidate was asked what they would do if the Supreme Court struck down a personhood law. Santorum said he would fight the court over the issue.
“With the partial birth abortion statute, when the court struck it down we wrote another bill and told them they were wrong. We eventually got the court to reverse itself,” he says.
Newt Gingrich said he would "completely defund Planned Parenthood and use the savings to fund adoption services". He also said it would be "possible to write the bill so it would not be appealable".
Is Gingrich applying for the position of God? Who on earth is entitled to draft and pass controversial legislation that is written in stone and cannot be repealed? It's as if Gingrich plans to descend the capital steps with etched tablets dictating abortion law. If neither Bush nor Obama forged those powers in the Office of Legal Counsel, Gingrich would be sure to expand them himself.
Bachmann said the life issue was a foundational issue for all of her other actions. “This is not a checked box for me, this is my core conviction that I would die for.”
Luckily, Michele Bachmann will likely never die for her own core convictions - but that does not mean many women will not die because carrying a baby to full-term is no longer an option - it would mean poverty and hunger. It would mean going without. Many thousands of women with stories to tell of how they became pregnant will come forward. These women all eat for two.
The problem with the right wing is they think they can chisel away at logic when courts rule against their absurdity until they gain a foothold by a favorable ruling. This is the same kind of thinking process that the Perry campaign utilized to try to sue their way into the Virginia primary. This tact is slightly reminiscent of the legal birth of corporate 'personhood' from this passage -
"One of the most severe blows to citizen authority arose out of the 1886 Supreme Court case of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad. Though the court did not make a ruling on the question of "corporate personhood," thanks to misleading notes of a clerk, the decision subsequently was used as precedent to hold that a corporation was a "natural person."
Even the Supreme Court had split on the 2004 decision in Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commision, when dissenting Justice Stevens wrote a scorching opinion of the Roberts high court: " ...the majority gave themselves an opportunity to change the law"..
The Republican Party in it's entirety are so right field the only thing that seperates them from fascism is a chain-link fence. The entire line up is so right-wing extreme, to even play ball every GOP candidate is required to toe the line of boundaries just to receive a cheer. The abortion issue is literally killing nomination hopefuls left and right, where even Mitt Romney -who some label as a Blue Dog Republican - took to the field with the rest of his comrades in declaring his support for personhood.
It's harrowing that from this field of candidates we must choose a verifiable opponent worthy to put a fight against a virtually assured victory for President Obama - even if they all seem fascist in the end.
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