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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat state does NOT have some weird anti-woman legislation being passed or proposed at this moment?
That is the question!
Everytime I sign onto DU there are threads about more states joining in on the war against women.
virgogal
(10,178 posts)Sienna86
(2,150 posts)jillan
(39,451 posts)Chorophyll
(5,179 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)I can't imagine a single elected republican in this state proposing anti-women legislation. Not one in the Senate and not one in the House.. And I sure can't imagine a VT dem doing it.
This shit is freaking me out.
KT2000
(20,604 posts)as far as I know. They are knee deep in budget wrangling that will likely kill health progrmas for everyone though.
Jamesm9164
(542 posts)elect McKenna as governor and with many RW R's, such as Shea, Klippert, Zeiger, etc. in the leg, Washington is getting very close to what has infected so many other areas of the country. Just saying.
KT2000
(20,604 posts)McKenna is like a Stealth candidate for governor. I don't think most people realize how conservative he really is. Was glad to see Inslee decide to take the campaign on full time. He needs more recognition out here in the rural areas.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)The only three GOP'ers elected to a major statewide office (governor and US senator) were Dan Evans, Slade Gorton, and John Spellman. The three of them were not terribly far right wing. Washington is a tough state for a knuckle-dragger to get elected in, and even tougher for that Neanderthal to seriously implement a conservative agenda.
You may be right about what people currently realize about McKenna, but information will fix that.
provis99
(13,062 posts)jillan
(39,451 posts)RandySF
(59,697 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)It probably wouldn't be wise in this state.
Giantsfootball10
(74 posts)I hope. But Rick (Slick) Scott runs this Great state so anything is possible.
csziggy
(34,139 posts)David Taintor August 1, 2011, 10:28 AM
Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) knows how to throw a party. The conservative governor on Saturday hosted pro-life activists and Florida lawmakers at the governors mansion to celebrate a handful of new anti-abortion laws, the Miami Herald reports.
But the laws actually went into effect about a month ago, so why host the ceremonial bill-signing event now?
<SNIP>
The Miami Herald breaks down the four bill Scott and others celebrated:
One requires women to receive an ultrasound before undergoing an abortion and be offered the opportunity to have it described to her. Another tightens requirements for parental notification when a minor seeks an abortion. A third prohibits insurance policies created through the federal health care law from covering abortions, and the fourth redirects proceeds from Choose Life license plates from counties to Choose Life, Inc., which counsels pregnant women. Lawmakers also passed a bill proposing a Constitutional amendment, which doesnt require the governors signature, that would prohibit using tax dollars to pay for abortions.
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2011/07/gov-rick-scott-hosts-abortion-bill-event-at-mansion.html
More: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/florida-gov-rick-scott-hosts-anti-abortion-bill-celebration.php
anti-alec
(420 posts)Massachusetts?
Illinois?
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)Our legislature is not currently in session...
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)Our experience with the Catholic bishops before Griswold v. CT proved to us that we had to fight and fight hard. We've gained in numbers since. Even the repukes who have won on several levels have not tired to institute anti choice or anti birth control legislation. They know it would be futile.
Thank god I live here. I moved here from VA and I was sick of VA for being so instrumental in stopped the ERA. I couldn't get out of that state FAST enough!
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Actually, the legislature only meets once every two years...so they can't propose something when they're not in session...that said, I don't think they would try something here...Dems control the legislature and the Repukes, while repugnant, don't have a wacko Christian base, but a wacko libertarian base, and that sort of keeps them in check.
Waiting For Everyman
(9,385 posts)It would be a waste of time if they did - Governor O'Malley would never sign any such thing.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)a female Republican state senator sponsored "AN ACT TO PROHIBIT HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGE POLICIES FROM OFFERING COVERAGE FOR ABORTIONS EXCEPT THROUGH A SEPARATE RIDER", but it "died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment."
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Pages/BillInformation.aspx?measureno=SB113
DFW
(54,502 posts)NRW=Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany)
No such laws even get proposed here. The local conservative party would still
be considered Kenyan Marxists by Republicans in the USA.
Down in Catholic Bayern (Bavaria), about 30 years ago, a local right wing
politician proposed a law restricting abortion. He and his proposal vanished
in a puff of smoke when it was revealed that he had a mistress on the side,
that he had gotten her pregnant, and, THAT HE HAD FORCED HER TO GET
AN ABORTION.
Teabaggers have existed for millenia--just using different names and languages.