Posted on 01/18/2014 4:30:22 PM PST by Darren McCarty
On the morning of December 11th, Gretchen Whitmer, the charismatic 42-year-old minority leader of the Michigan Senate, stood before her colleagues in the Statehouse in Lansing, and told them something she'd told almost no one before. "Over 20 years ago, I was a victim of rape," she said. "And thank God it didn't result in a pregnancy, because I can't imagine going through what I went through and then having to consider what to do about an unwanted pregnancy from an attacker."
No one in the gallery said a word. Instead, with just hours to go before it broke for Christmas recess, Michigan's overwhelmingly male, Republican-dominated Legislature, having held no hearings nor even a substantive debate, voted to pass one of the most punishing pieces of anti-abortion legislation anywhere in the country: the Abortion Insurance Opt-Out Act, which would ban abortion coverage, even in cases of rape or incest, from virtually every health-insurance policy issued in the state. Women and their employers wanting this coverage will instead have to purchase a separate rider – often described as "rape insurance." Whitmer, a Democrat known as a fierce advocate for women's issues, described the new law as "by far one of the most misogynistic proposals I've seen in the Michigan Legislature."
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"Right to Life of Michigan is looked upon by most Republican legislators – and probably some Democratic legislators – as one of the most coercive, if not the most coercive lobbying group in the state," says former U.S. congressman Joe Schwarz, a self-described pro-choice Republican who served 16 years in the Michigan Statehouse, from 1987 to 2002. "The amount of pressure Right to Life both directly and indirectly puts on legislators in Michigan is considerable. And some legislators aren't exactly profiles in courage when it comes to standing up to these guys."
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Almost comical how these same folks who consider killing a baby to be a way to keep from “punishing” some woman an OK thing, will also claim that illegal immigration should not be contested because it will harm the children who had no choice in how they came to be here....I guess they suffer “situational compassion.”
what do you expect? Isn’t Michigan the home of Bart Stupak who singlehandedly gave us Obamacare?
Naivete knows no bounds as he famously stated he “trusted” Obama’s word.
Stupak lives in Washington DC now. He scored a major prize in the form of a full partnership with the premier DC lobbying firm of Venable LLP.
Dan Benishek replaced him. He's not as good as he could be, but he's not going to trust Obama's word at least.
“On the morning of December 11th, Gretchen Whitmer, the charismatic 42-year-old minority leader of the Michigan Senate, stood before her colleagues in the Statehouse in Lansing, and told them something she’d told almost no one before. “Over 20 years ago, I was a victim of rape,” she said.”
I imagine her “rape” was along the lines of...
Getting drunk at a frat party, stripping off all her cloths to pull a train for the football team.
But the next day she figures the last two of the 2nd string were rape, because she wasn’t in the mood anymore.
murder is murder it is that simple.
I’ll believe that rape story when I see the police blotter with the complaint. But we need to get control of the language: “reproductive rights” is a ridiculous description. Right to kill is much more accurate.
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I’ll believe that rape story when I see the police blotter with the complaint. But we need to get control of the language: “reproductive rights” is a ridiculous description. Right to kill is much more accurate.
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