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Thursday, March 13, 2003

Damn, I'm tired but GRRRRRR

Ampersand goes over a list of what Republicans have been fighting for, included are:

-They rejected an act to ban abortions post-viability. Their objection? It made an exception for cases in which the health of the mother was endangered; some pro-lifers have claimed that "health" is too vague a term.

-They also rejected Dick Durbin's bill, which would "ban all abortions after a fetus is viable unless two physicians certify that the abortion is necessary to protect the life of the pregnant woman or that she was at; risk of grievous injury to her physical health.'" Republican Rick Santorum said that since any pregnancy carries health risks, no provision at all that seeks to protect women's health could be acceptable

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-Incredibly, Republicans also rejected providing prenatal care for low-income pregnant women (by making them eligible for the State Children's Health Insurance Program). (Republicans have said that they'd be willing to provide the fetus with health care, but not the mother.)

Read the rest of the post. It's almost 4am here and I'm really tired right now, but man, this sort of stuff pisses me off. I dunno, I think I've been in a bad mood all day since I woke up to find that Serbian PM Djindjic dies, and the Bushies seem to be planning to start this war next week. And then you add more Republican hypocrisy and it's like, well, GRRR.

Well, what can you say. Republicans must really hate women. And puppies.

And sunshine.

And flowers.

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