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Wonderful work here, Mac.

Ramona — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:48:35 +0000

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Wonderful work here, Mac. What a list! (Sorry I'm so late to this.) The info you've put out here is essential to this battle. We have to keep this going. This is not going to be easy, but we've got an army with us now. Can't stop now.

If a woman gave birth and

kyle flynn — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 03:29:11 +0000

In reply to I don't understand - is 20

If a woman gave birth and chose to let her newborn die, I wouldn't stop her, nor would I want her prosecuted. And I have no objections if someone stepped in and assumed full responsibility for the infant. What's maddening about the issue is that it's so inefficient. Birth control, including abortion on demand for any reason at any time--and it's none of your damn business by the way--is so much simpler. Or should be, I guess we need to say.

I don't understand - is 20

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:52:04 +0000

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I don't understand - is 20 weeks not enough to decide if you want a kid? (aside from health-of-mother exceptions)

To what state of gestation do you think abortion should be allowed?

There was still influence

trkingmomoe — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 02:52:20 +0000

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There was still influence from Rockefeller Republicans that election cycle. It was Reagan's election strategy to unite evangelicals and the angry deep south to win that began the organized backlash.

I know there is a great deal

trkingmomoe — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 02:42:16 +0000

In reply to You turn on FOX news and then

I know there is a great deal of buyers remorse and distrust for Florida's governor. The state sometimes even forgets to take ALEC's ID off the bill they just copied and passed. There will be less Republicans in Tallahassee after November because of their attack on education and women.

You turn on FOX news and then

Richard Day — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 20:20:32 +0000

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You turn on FOX news and then you turn to the repub at the view and then you turn to Joe Scarborough and....well in a short period of time you get the talking points memo from the RNC.

Conspiracy.

But this list you make demonstrates that there are far more evil forces in this country than the lies echoed every single day by repubs.

This list demonstrates that some central committee is dictating how repub legislators are supposed to vote on the state level--and let us not forget the dictations to important agencies like state educational agencies.

I think the central committee includes voices from fronts like the American Heritage Institute and Cato and probably a few others.

I have never seen in my lifetime such a coordinated effort to take us all back to the fifties by legislatures.

The conspiracy is massive, the conspiracy is filled with BIG BIG money donors, the conspiracy is so well coordinated that it defies all the normal rules of democratic governments.

One could take your information and do a little googling and find that the same legislatures have conspired to keep poor people from voting, to take away what little poor folk have, to reduce taxes for the rich, to add taxes (in one way or another) to the middle class, to reduce taxes for corporations, to handicap or destroy all union say in things....this just goes on and on and on.

That is why I think the DNC is thinking straight by attacking this Walker prick in Wisconsin. That election should take place in June and I would really like to see how Wisconsinites respond.

I am getting a scent that citizens of these states understand that a mistake was made.

But this attack on women, by legislatures as well as Congressional repubs may aid the progressive cause much more than I would have predicted.

WOMEN OF THE WORLD UNITE, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT CONTROL OVER YOUR OWN BODIES!

I suspect that some of this

Michael Maiello — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:21:56 +0000

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I suspect that some of this is pure economic fear reaction. The recession we just dealt with decimated a lot of "typically" male jobs (anything housing related, from construction to real estate sales and management to home goods, supplies and upkeep) and you see that pain manifested in a reactionary way politically. The net job gainers during the last few years have been nursing and home health care which are "typically" female jobs.

My use of scare quotes is just to denote that this is kind of ridiculous. These jobs don't have to be typically anything, but they are.

It's true Genghis, which is

tmccarthy0 — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:53:59 +0000

In reply to It's worth noting that the

It's true Genghis, which is why I noted how different things were during Eisenstadt and Roe. And that has a great deal to do with why Eisenstadt and Roe decisions were decided the way they were. We had made so many gains through both parties and then suddenly it became the biggest political football of all time I think.

We've regressed legislatively speaking. It's too bad.

It's worth noting that the

Michael Wolraich — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:47:00 +0000

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It's worth noting that the GOP was not always against abortion rights. From the 1976 Republican Party platform:

The question of abortion is one of the most difficult and controversial of our time. It is undoubtedly a moral and personal issue but it also involves complex questions relating to medical science and criminal justice. There are those in our Party who favor complete support for the Supreme Court decision which permits abortion on demand. There are others who share sincere convictions that the Supreme Court's decision must be changed by a constitutional amendment prohibiting all abortions. Others have yet to take a position, or they have assumed a stance somewhere in between polar positions.

I just updated a comment on

trkingmomoe — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:23:40 +0000

In reply to Thanks Momoe, it seems like

I just updated a comment on your Limbaugh post. It looks like it has bled over to other hateful talkers as well. They are losing some big money.