Virginia Republicans Say: Have a Miscarriage, Go To Prison

[riqster]

http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/republicans-say-have-a-miscarriage-go-to-prison/

Snip: "Class 1 offenses can get you up to a year in prison. A year in prison for someone who did nothing wrong. For a woman who loses a baby. For a heartbroken woman. Yes, that’s what today’s “Republicans” think."

[Demo_Chris]

1. Interesting. Thanks for posting this. nt

[uppityperson]

2. Good lord. What will they do next? Keep a record of when every women menstruates to check?

[MindPilot]

3. Conservatives: Reducing the size of government until it fits in a uterus. n/t

[riqster]

5. No, increasing it until it can fit into EVERY uterus. nt

[MindPilot]

8. That is kind of my point.

Paraphrasing the famous Grover Norquist quote to demonstrate that they are actually making government bigger and more intrusive while claiming they are doing the exact opposite.

FWIW, Am I the only one who finds that "drown it in a bathtub" metaphor very disturbing especially in that context?

[davidn3600]

4. What fuels this Republican obsession with prison?

These people really show their low IQ if they think prison time is the answer to all of society's problems.

What a bunch of idiots.

[kentauros]

7. What fuels it is something called the "prison industrial complex"

I.e., the private prison industry. They truly could not care less if prison helps or hurts those going into it. All they care about is how much money they can make off of incarcerating more and more Americans.

[Blue Owl]

6. Memo to Virginia GOP: Fuck Off

n/t

[mysuzuki2]

9. I think everytime a male republican

jerks off he should be charged with mass murder. Makes about as much sense.

[SummerSnow]

11. lol. They should be arrested fathering children cause all they do is add to the stupid.

[SummerSnow]

10. So full of shit

[KatyaR]

12. Assholes want to make women second-class citizens--

hell, not even that--a possession for them to bend to their will.

[sheshe2]

14. Bingo!

Stand up and be heard ladies, and gentlemen! It's time to vote these fuggers out of office!

[Dwayne Hicks]

13. Absurd!!

Should such a law be passed I would think it would be quickly struck down. I'd love to see the first time they tried to arrest a woman. The national outrage would crush the republican party....Hmm maybe they should do it!

[riqster]

16. They already have such laws

This one would have messed around with due process and upped the penalties,

[sheshe2]

15. Thanks rigster.

Regardless of one’s political philosophy, how could anyone be so cruel, so callous, so despicable as to summarily imprison grieving mothers who either failed to called the police immediately after suffering a miscarriage, or didn’t keep the remains of the poor lost child in their possession to hand over to the police? How could anyone hate women that much?

From your link!

Cruel and callous is the theme of the GOP.

[Brigid]

17. How can this possibly pass Constitutional muster?

[riqster]

18. State and Federal Constitutions

... can have significant differences.

Also, if no one challenges the Constitutionality of a law, it can often fly under the radar and remain in force.

[raccoon]

19. How can any woman with a brain be a Republican? nt

[OnionPatch]

20. I've been saying all along that it would come to this.

People scoffed at me and rejected the idea that a miscarriage might be investigated as murder some day. They insisted the anti-choicers would never get that extreme but it seemed quite logical to me that this is where it's all leading.

And here it is, just as I predicted.

[riqster]

21. Sometimes it sucks to be right. nt