Georgia lawmaker has lost his mind.

[Drip]

There's a new bill on the block that may have reached the apex (I hope) of woman-hating craziness. Georgia State Rep. Bobby Franklin has introduced a 10-page bill that would criminalize miscarriages and make abortion in Georgia completely illegal.
http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/02/miscarriage-death-penalty-georgia

 

[qtlaw]

Man pretending yet again to know what its like to be a woman. Yawn. And if you believe in what he says, shame on you.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

OK, those of you calling Scott Walker Hitler can now focus on this guy...

 

[king cranium maximus IV]

Same guy who wants to get rid of driver's licenses in Georgia and to officially rename rape victims "accusers." Among many, many ridiculous bills put forth.

At best, he believes his constituents want quantity over quality w/r/t their representative's output. At worst, and probably more likely, he's a putz and a creep.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

I love the "no driver's licenses" idea. Thanks to the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution, this means anyone driving without a license could claim to be a Georgia resident, even in Alaska.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

My mother had a miscarriage and an ectopic pregnancy before having me. According to this piece of **** she should have been put to death even before I was born.

**** off, Bobby Franklin.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

This pissed me off so bad, I did something I've never done before. He has a website, and an e-mail address (as well as, strangely enough, his home telephone number, which I found rather quaint.)

I sent his office an e-mail, telling him how I felt about his proposed law. This is what I wrote:

Dear Mr. Franklin:

Upon reading about your proposed bill about giving the death penalty to women who have miscarriages, http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/02/miscarriage-death-penalty-georgia I have to say, Sir, who do you think you are?

I am a productive member of society thanks to my mother, who endured TWO miscarriages before having me. I also have two children of my own with my wife. According to your proposed law, that would have been three lives that would not be on this earth had your law been on the books before I was born. How dare you call yourself pro-life!

In a time in this country where we're supposedly are re-examining our rhetoric after the horrific shooting in Tucson of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, I find your proposed bill to be among the most offensive that I have ever read. Offensive to women. Offensive to men. Offensive to children. And yes, offensive to God.

Please do us all a favor and resign. You are an embarrassment to the United States, and mankind.

Sincerely,

Baron Scicluna (and no, I didn't sign it with that)

(looking back now, I should have added the state of Georgia, but oh well)

 

[Baron Scicluna]

And I got an automatic reply:

"Due to the unreliability of the General Assembly’s technical support team, it is unlikely that I will receive your email. Please call my office at 404-656-0152."

That's funny. He throws the techies under the bus.

 

[Starman]

My mother had three miscarriages.

Good thing I don't live in Georgia or I might just look into a "Second Amendment Solution."

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

Franklin is a holy roller from Cobb County who would use the Book of Deuteronomy to legislate.

http://www.theamericanview.com/index.php?id=1109&PHPSESSID=73fb32032212125ba67a08f7b0f0e022

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Another war that never ends, and must be won and rewon, many times . . .

 

[Alma]

It's a laughable law, but the Mother Jones article is equally so. There's a difference between total incompetence - and many bills are precisely that - and some backwater fool presuming to be a Draconian, mind-reading monster who stretches out his hands and knows when all miscarriages take place. The article has this ohmygoodness! breathless quality to it. It gets old. People have to stop falling for this stuff.

 

[Stoney]

These Bobby Franklin stories made me curious what type of forgotten backwoods enclave of Georgia keeps electing someone who wants to abolish all drivers licenses, criminalize miscarriage, and re-label rape victims as accusers.

So I google him and discover that his district is actually Atlanta's northern suburbs and includes the best educated county in Georgia and one of the wealthiest in the country. What. The. ****.

 

[dixiehack]

See before I ever found out where the guy was from, I was thinking suburban Atlanta (although my money was on Gwinnett Co) Rich suburban areas are more fertile ground for unadulterated craziness like this than the countryside.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

Ellijay is one of the most delightful, endearing, Norman Rockwell, non-malignant mountain towns you'll ever find and there was a Klan rally there a year ago. Stupid is just everywhere.

 

[Stoney]

Ellijay is one of the most delightful, endearing, Norman Rockwell, non-malignant mountain towns you'll ever find and there was a Klan rally there a year ago. Stupid is just everywhere.

But I bet the majority of Ellijay's citizens were appalled by it. I know some stupid is everywhere but the election of somebody like this implies that the majority of the district's voters approve of the guy. I find that a tad more disconcerting, especially for district that includes the alleged "best educated county in Georgia".

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

Ellijay is one of the most delightful, endearing, Norman Rockwell, non-malignant mountain towns you'll ever find and there was a Klan rally there a year ago. Stupid is just everywhere.

But I bet the majority of Ellijay's citizens were appalled by it. I know some stupid is everywhere but the election of somebody like this implies that the majority of the district's voters approve of the guy. I find that a tad more disconcerting, especially for district that includes the alleged "best educated county in Georgia".

From what I just googled (as I am now long gone from Georgia), he ran unopposed in 2010. That kind of thing is a ****ing embarrassment to the state, our polity, our system.

 

[Drip]

Ellijay is one of the most delightful, endearing, Norman Rockwell, non-malignant mountain towns you'll ever find and there was a Klan rally there a year ago. Stupid is just everywhere.

But I bet the majority of Ellijay's citizens were appalled by it. I know some stupid is everywhere but the election of somebody like this implies that the majority of the district's voters approve of the guy. I find that a tad more disconcerting, especially for district that includes the alleged "best educated county in Georgia".

From what I just googled (as I am now long gone from Georgia), he ran unopposed in 2010. That kind of thing is a ****ing embarrassment to the state, our polity, our system.

Yet he keeps winning elections. Damn.

 

[JR]

You know, I think we have some dumbass crazy politicans up here but we're rank amateurs compared to guys like this.

 

[HackyMcHack]

There is some serious stupidity going on underneath the Gold Dome. A bill to legalize Sunday retail adult beverage sales appeared on the fast track to passage until the head of the Christian Coalition piped up last week. Then the Georgia Senate Republicans decided to caucus before bringing the bill to the floor, shielding its debate from public scrutiny. All of a sudden, and without a public vote, the bill dies, and none of the Republicans will admit to opposing it.