Republicans STILL planning to change definition of rape.

[RandySF]

One bill, the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” would eliminate tax breaks for private employers who provide health coverage if their plans offer abortion services, and would forbid women who use a flexible spending plan to use pre-tax dollars for abortions. Those restrictions would go well beyond current law prohibiting the use of federal money for abortion services.

The bill, sponsored by Representative Christopher H. Smith, Republican of New Jersey, has drawn fire over language that undercuts a longstanding exemption on the ban on using federal money for abortions in the case of rape or incest; the measure narrows the definition of rape to “forcible rape,” a term that his office has never defined. Democratic lawmakers and others repeatedly hammered on the term, saying it suggested that victims of statutory rape and other crimes could not get abortions paid for with federal money.

While Mr. Smith’s staff said last week that the term "forcible rape" would be removed from the bill, the staff of RepresentativeJerrold Nadler of New York, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, said that language remained intact as of Tuesday.


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/09/us/politics/09congress.html?_r=2

[aquart]

1. Wring their necks with it come next election.

Get lots of video now.

[Ezlivin]

2. 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone....

... 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'

Let's give Humpty a push, shall we?

[femrap]

3. smith

has big 'problems'...or maybe it's a 'little' problem that has him attacking women.

[glinda]

4. Perhaps look into his past behavior.