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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-11-05 07:45 PM
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4. Finally getting a taste of his party's
own medicine, huh? While I agree that the emails should have been written in a more diplomatic, civil manner, and hateful emails never work, his side is far more likely to be hateful and mean-spirited towards the opposition than we are.

And if he'd wanted that hateful, bigoted, sexist, misogynistic, fascist, intrusive, insulting Nazi bill to "add more teeth to laws penalizing women who abandon full-term babies after birth", he should have damn well written the bill specifically for that instead of writing it in such a manner as to include ALL fetal deaths, including miscarriages, and to make no distinction between miscarriages at eight weeks and abandoning a viable, full-term baby at birth.

I don't buy his bullshit explanation at all, I think he only changed it after he began receiving the indignant protests he so richly deserved. He just expected women to roll over and be doormats to whatever he and his women-hating patriarchal misogynistic 17th-century male colleagues wanted to do to us, boy was he shown wrong!

I have no problem at all with trying to protect abandoned full-term babies and for getting justice for them, but that's not what this bill is about. Why couldn't he have introduced a bill allowing women to leave their newborns with hospitals, agencies, or a number of other places, no questions asked, like many other states have done or are doing? The states that have implemented such laws have seen a drastic decrease in the number of babies abandoned in trashcans, alleys, etc.

As for creating the protest that made him see the error of his ways, WHOOO-HOOO, way to go, ladies!!!!!!
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