Georgia lawmaker has lost his mind.

[deskslave]

The No. 3 one is pretty iffy. The law was vague and *could* be interpreted that way, but as soon as that was pointed out, the sponsor rewrote it.

Yeah, I'm sure it was just an oversight.

 

[Bob Cook]

Someone should information these legislators that The Handmaid's Tale wasn't intended as an instruction manual.

 

[Kato]

The guy has been in office since '96, through several elections.

This is is not his first screwball proposal.

Yet, he keeps winning elections.

That, not him, is what make me a bit depressed.

Well, it's a well-run campaign: broom, midget and what-not

 

[HC]

The war continues on us in Canada as well.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/rape-victim-inviting-so-no-jail--rape-victim-inviting-so-no-jail-116801578.html

 

[Smallpotatoes]

The No. 3 one is pretty iffy. The law was vague and *could* be interpreted that way, but as soon as that was pointed out, the sponsor rewrote it.

Yeah, I'm sure it was just an oversight.

Similar bills were proposed in Iowa and Nebraska.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/24/949245/-The-pro-life-bill-to-legalize-murder-spreads-to-Iowa-and-Nebraska

 

[Boom_70]

Maybe this guy went through Army Psy Ops program

 

[RickStain]

The No. 3 one is pretty iffy. The law was vague and *could* be interpreted that way, but as soon as that was pointed out, the sponsor rewrote it.

Yeah, I'm sure it was just an oversight.

I think lacking absolutely any evidence that it wasn't, then it was. There's plenty of other legit reasons to be outraged on that list, but I don't think No. 3 passes the smell test.

And no, I don't find a Daily Kos link saying that the law "could" be interpreted that way to be particularly chilling. It just won't be interpreted that way.

 

[Birdscribe]

The No. 3 one is pretty iffy. The law was vague and *could* be interpreted that way, but as soon as that was pointed out, the sponsor rewrote it.

Yeah, I'm sure it was just an oversight.

Similar bills were proposed in Iowa and Nebraska.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/24/949245/-The-pro-life-bill-to-legalize-murder-spreads-to-Iowa-and-Nebraska

And, as I pointed out to Mrs. Birdscribe and as one of the SportsJournalists.com resident Esquires pointed out here in the sandbox, the moment this horrific event happens -- and make no mistake, it will -- you round up every legislator who voted for it and charge them with conspiracy to commit murder.

Laws have consequences? Damn straight, they do.

That said, if all this isn't an example of how women are an acceptable underclass in American society, I'm hard-pressed to find examples to the contrary.

 

[RickStain]

Just so we're clear what we are talking about here, the laws in question are as follows:

In Iowa, two separate bills have been produced that would 1) identify a fetus as a person and 2) a person has the right to use deadly force in a place where he has the right to be in order to protect the life of another person or prevent the commission of a felony.

There's no reason to assume that these bills were meant to work in harmony to provide legal means to kill abortion providers (other than the general, unthinking reflex to try to interpret the world in a way that makes the people you disagree with look as bad as possible). It's theoretically possible that someone might try to produce a legal argument in that manner, but they can do that with justifiable homicide laws right now (as the man who murdered Dr. Tiller did) and there's no chance that a court would uphold such a claim.

The Nebraska proposal, however, is pretty explicit and creepy as hell that a state senator would introduce it, but I still doubt it would actually provide legal protection to someone who killed an abortion provider.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Someone should information these legislators that The Handmaid's Tale wasn't intended as an instruction manual.

. . . a good reference, but one which no doubt flew far over the heads of the majority of the involved yahoos in question . . .

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Updated: Rep. Franklin found dead at home.

http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2011/07/26/state-rep-bobby-franklin-found-dead/