What would the US be like if the Teabaggers and "Christian" conservatives have their way?

[Archae]

Something like this.

"Let 'em die."

(CNN) -- A pregnant leukemia patient who became a flashpoint in the abortion debate in the Dominican Republic died Friday morning, a hospital official told CNN.

The 16-year-old, who had been undergoing chemotherapy, died from complications of the disease, said Dr. Antonio Cabrera, the legal representative for the hospital.

Her case stirred debate in her country, as her life was potentially at risk because of anti-abortion laws in the Dominican Republic.

(snip)

According to Article 37 of the Dominican Constitution, "the right to life is inviolable from the moment of conception and until death." Dominican courts have interpreted this as a strict mandate against abortion.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/17/world/americas/dominican-republic-abortion/index.html

[backscatter712]

1. Ever read The Handmaid's Tale? n/t

[hifiguy]

2. Saudi Arabia with Jeebus instead of Allah

and lots more guns, horrible polyester shirts and Rascals.

[Lars39]

3. But it was fine for her to get chemo too late, miscarry and go into fatal cardiac arrest.

[niyad]

4. not a fit place in which to live

[johnd83]

5. Afghanistan

An anarchist feudal religiously fundamentalist society ruled by the most brutal. The names are different but the result would be the same.

[HeiressofBickworth]

6. I just watched the movie

Choices of the Heart - the Margaret Sanger Story. Depicted was one Anthony Comstock who organized the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, an institution dedicated to supervising the morality of the public (remind anyone of the Taliban's Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice?). Margaret Sanger, if there is anyone here who doesn't know, was the American birth control activist in the early 1900's.

I think if the Teaparty and/or the rabid religious right ever became in control, we would be looking at the vice patrol. Not over financial vices, just perceived vices relating to your personal body.

[longship]

7. Ever read Margaret Atwood's "A Handmaid's Tale"?

That is the Republican ideal.

[Initech]

8. I'm guessing something like a combination of Somalia, Uganda, and Iran.

[maxrandb]

9. If decent people sit on their hands this election

we'll get a chance to find out.

[Motown_Johnny]

10. It wouldn't last 5 years without a total breakdown and restructuring

to a more moderate system. Maybe even a progressive one.