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June 02, 2015 02:36 PM UTC
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But with a presidential election looming next year, what kind of comfort is that to women? Not much. One of the GOP’s foremost slicksters on the issue of abortion, Sen. Cory Gardner, is all but certain to vote for this abortion ban bill. How will local Republican operative Laura Carno, as one example, react to that–after
There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Are now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!
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What makes you think anyone believed Mr. Gardner or the DP editorial in the first place? He won because of apathy, approbation, or a belief that the issue was to big for him to seriously move the current state of affairs. When Obama vetoes this bill, none of that will change.
Mark Udall's problem wasn't that Cory Gardner lied about his stance on women or their right to control their bodies. Udall’s problem is that he couldn't make the case for how him being in the senate would make anything different. He lost because he was irrelevant to the equation (perception or reality).
"What makes you think anyone believed Mr. Gardner or the DP editorial in the first place?" Excellent point. All the pro-choice people knew he was really anti-choice. All the anti-choice people assumed it was wink, wink to get elected. For most people, including women, it simply wasn't their only priority and Udall didn't make much of an effort to talk about top priority economic issues. He won because team Udall was clueless.
There was also a large disinterested middle, and they're the ones who got suckered. Your desire to lay everything that went wrong in 2014 at the feet of Mark Udall leaves out some important things, and you should think it through a little more IMO.
Excuse me, but 20 weeks after fertilization is the 22nd week of pregnancy? So a woman is pregnant two weeks before the egg is fertilized? That should scare the shit out of every self-respecting man and woman on the planet. I've heard a lot of crazy things said by anti-choice nut cases (women who have abortions and doctors who perform them should get the death penalty anyone?) but this takes the cake. It really is the new Republican math. 20 equals 22. Karen Middleton and Vicki Cowart, are you listening to this crap?
Let's not forget that gem about the whole system shutting down and a woman not being able to become pregnant if she is the victim of a legitimate rape.
I am confused. Is that different from illegitame rape.
It's worse than that. So, I'm think I'm going to have sex with my wife in two weeks, and she always gets pregnant on the first time, so since we all know that a fertilized egg is the same as a 21 year old man, I'd like to vote for my "pre-born" child actually make that all ten of them. Jack Weil, God rest his soul, was right, they do think every sperm is sacred.
It's just the usual (at least it used to be) way of measuring back to to the beginning of the cycle in which fertilization occurs, usually about two weeks in. Since many women are nowhere near clockwork regular it's part of a guess in terms of when conception actually took place.
It's also making science fit the policy, instead of policy fitting the science. Most embryologists agree that 22 weeks is when the embryo's skin develops nerve endings, and its brain begins to develop folds (to enable cognition).
So even weighing in the "2 weeks from last period" fudge factor BC mentioned, what the GOP is doing is assuming that embryos feel pain and process it in their brains much earlier than scientists have found that they do.
All that aside, I feel I need to point out that nobody gets a late – term abortion because of convenience or selfish reasons. Women getting post 20 week abortions tend to be poor, minority race, young, without access to health care in general, with significant "life disruptions" (rape, abuse, violence). These are the women GOP lawmakers apparently feel contempt for.
However, these lawmakers of all political persuasions feel that its fine if living, breathing, pain-and-thought-capable children are killed in drone attacks, nuclear bombs, or are collateral damage to any other lofty patriotic / profit-making goal.
It's all in who gets the "choice" to kill kids, you see. Women are not to be trusted with that choice, even on the smallest of scales. (a 20 week embryo is about the size and mass of an eggplant, and has about as much reasoning capability.
Like B.C. said, they're actually counting from the day they can pinpoint: the first day of the last menstrual period. Without a basal thermometer (body temperature rises minutely at ovulation), most women are fuzzy about which day of a given cycle they actually ovulate. Even if they know (or say they do), doctors don't trust the information. Also, the little dot can hang around for a couple of days before one of those little tadpoles finds it. So they count from the only date they can verify.