Snap Shots of YOUR Republican Party, 21st Century Style

[Chicks]

Nebraska lawmakers overwhelmingly reject Trump-backed ‘winner-take-all’ electoral system
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-w...ctoral-system/

State Sen. Loren Lippincott, who sponsored the bill, admitted after Wednesday’s vote that there is not enough support to avoid a Democratic-led filibuster, needing 33 votes.

Disgusting Repubes tried, but failed, in their mission to help re-elect their Dear Leader. Thank you Nebraska Dems!

[RickeyM]

What!?? I thought all of America wanted Don Poorleone to be president again.

[Rajoo]

Arizona Supreme Court issues near-total ban on abortion

Arizona’s conservative Supreme Court on Tuesday revived a near-total ban of abortion, invoking a 1864 law that forbids the procedure except to save a mother’s life and punishes providers with prison time.

The ruling supersedes the previous rule, which guarded the right to end a pregnancy by the 15-week mark, resetting policy to the pre-Roe v. Wade era and adding Arizona to the roster of 16 other states where abortion is virtually outlawed.

Dumb dumb move in my opinion. Biden's administration has granted Billion$ in grant to expand semi conductor manufacturing in AZ . Intel (which already has a huge presence in AZ) and TSMC (a Taiwanese company that makes Apple's chips) are two of the beneficiaries and recruiting technical talent will be very difficult unless they also provide transportation to say CA for abortions to their employees. Like TX, AZ may go after them and the shit show will continue.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...-court-ruling/

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

Arizona Supreme Court issues near-total ban on abortion

Dumb dumb move in my opinion. Biden's administration has granted Billion$ in grant to expand semi conductor manufacturing in AZ . Intel (which already has a huge presence in AZ) and TSMC (a Taiwanese company that makes Apple's chips) are two of the beneficiaries and recruiting technical talent will be very difficult unless they also provide transportation to say CA for abortions to their employees. Like TX, AZ may go after them and the shit show will continue.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...-court-ruling/

Pro-Choice folks have already gotten enough signatures to make it a ballot measure this Fall. If so, this will drive Democrats and moderates to the polls, presaging difficult times for GOP candidates on that ballot, particularly with a lunatic like Kari Lake running for Senate.

[Chicks]

Arizona Republicans denounce revived 1864 abortion ban in sudden reversal
As the party struggles to talk about abortion, response marks fastest and strongest rebuke of bans since the fall of Roe
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...e-abortion-ban

So, when they suddenly realize this is a political hot potato that will kill them in the polls, they reverse their long-standing "moral" stance. How typically Repube. F'ing hypocrites.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Arizona Republicans denounce revived 1864 abortion ban in sudden reversal
As the party struggles to talk about abortion, response marks fastest and strongest rebuke of bans since the fall of Roe
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...e-abortion-ban

So, when they suddenly realize this is a political hot potato that will kill them in the polls, they reverse their long-standing "moral" stance. How typically Repube. F'ing hypocrites.

It has been a contrived wedge issue since 1980. Civil rights laws and SCOTUS rulings on civil rights effectively took away overt racism as a GOP electoral strategy (i.e., the Southern Strategy), so conservatives (mostly Phyllis Schafly and Pat Buchanan) cooked up abortion as an issue.

[Rajoo]

Obviously the Arizona Republicans have not heard the sage advice, "If you are in a hole, stop digging". But that seems to be precisely what they are doing about the 1864 total ban on abortion law.

Arizona House descends into shouting match as Republicans block attempts to repeal Civil War-era abortion ban

Arizona House Democrats and at least one Republican joined in the outcry on Wednesday, with at least one lawmaker saying “people will die” if the 1864 ban remains a law in the state.

However, Republican state Rep Teresa Martinez argued there was no reason to rush the debate, and accused Democrats of “screaming at us and engaging in extremist and insurrectionist behavior on the House floor.” The GOP-led Senate briefly convened without debate on abortion.

Good news for the Dems since these Jesus freaks will live to dig another day or a week or months, whatever stretches out till November.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2526972.html

[Chicks]

Senate Republicans furious over Trump trying to derail FISA bill
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...ing-fisa-bill/

You dumba$$es had the chance to be rid of this festering boil, but you were too cowardly to follow through. Now he's paying you back for your loyalty. What a bunch of buffoons.

[Rajoo]

This is a very interesting and revealing article on abortion in this country going back to the early 1,800's. And believe it or not, its the AMA who back then was exclusively white Protestant males who decided they wanted to control abortions, not women midwives. Of course, they eventually deemed abortions as wrong because the wrong color of babies were born, whereas the desired ones were being aborted. History repeats itself and I am not posting this to play the race card, just that the background story is fascinating.

But strikingly, a major catalyst of abortion bans being enacted across the country was the emergence of organized and professionalized medicine, historians say.

After the American Medical Association, which would eventually become the largest doctors’ organization in the country, formed in 1847, its members — all male and white at that time — sought to curtail medical activities by midwives and other nondoctors, most of whom were women. Pregnancy termination methods were often provided by people in those vocations, and historians say that was one reason for the association’s desire to ban abortion.

Later, the association published “Why Not? A Book for Every Woman,” also written by Dr. Storer, which said that abortion was immoral and criminal and argued that married women had a moral and societal obligation to have children.

The story itself is not that compelling as to the fact that history does repeat itself.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/h...sultPosition=1

[Dondilion]

Abortion is just wrong. Period.