Pic Of The Moment: Here's What A Republican Super-Majority Has Done For Alabama's Precious Children

[EarlG]

Alabama governor signs near-total abortion ban

Best States Rankings, 2019 (Alabama: #49)

2018 Health of Women and Children Report

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[djacq]

1. Although Virginia is considered part of the South;

Thank God I don't reside in Alabama.

[ancianita]

30. They're coming for your women, too. Don't think this is over.

[appal_jack]

38. AL THE HANDMAID'S FAIL. nt

[czarjak]

2. Elite football though!

[sandensea]

24. And for most Alabama Republicans, that's all there's to it

Roll tide!

[czarjak]

44. Auburn be damned?

[sandensea]

45. It is if you're a Gator

I don't follow football much myself; but I lived in Mississippi for a several years and remember some of the SEC football banter.

It's serious business down there.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. ...

"Alabama"

Oh Alabama
The devil fools
With the best laid plan
Swing low Alabama
You got the spare change
You got to feel strange
And now the moment
Is all that it meant

Alabama, you got
The weight on your shoulders
That's breaking your back
Your Cadillac
Has got a wheel in the ditch
And a wheel on the track

Oh Alabama
Banjos playing
Through the broken glass
Windows down in Alabama
See the old folks
Tied in white robes
Hear the banjo
Don't it take you down home?

Alabama, you got
The weight on your shoulders
That's breaking your back
Your Cadillac
Has got a wheel in the ditch
And a wheel on the track

Oh Alabama
Can I see you
And shake your hand
Make friends down in Alabama
I'm from a new land
I come to you
And see all this ruin
What are you doing Alabama?
You got the rest of the union
To help you along
What's going wrong?

[underpants]

4. Al Abama

[ffr]

5. One of the many flyover states with a stellar reputation.

Never been there. Never plan to visit either.

[justhanginon]

6. Talabamastan

[Martin Eden]

23. Spot-on

I hadn't heard that one before.

[Divecoz]

7. Hard To argue with facts like those hahaha

Hard To argue with facts like those hahaha Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Much of Georgia.. Lets face it , the red states are lacking in every-way EXCEPT Shysters..

[IronLionZion]

11. Welcome to DU!

[patphil]

8. The abortion ban hits low income women the most

They often can't afford to leave the state to get an abortion.
This is typical Republicanism.
They're all for forcing women to give birth to babies they don't want to have, and then they have absolutely no concern about the child after it is born.
So, these children grow up in poverty, ignorance and despair.
This contributes to the high crime rate, and drug usage.

Way to go Alabama!
The home of love and compassion...not!

Patrick Phillips

[ancianita]

31. It hits ALL women the most, including the women on DU.

[bdamomma]

35. They

love the fetus, forget the child. We need to stop Viagra and Cialis.

[BigmanPigman]

41. Hear hear!

[calimary]

9. Sheesh! No kidding!

Alabama! Get yer Dark Ages right here, folks!

I can just see the bumper stickers...

[pdsimdars]

10. I saw some lady from Alabama on a show last night and she said that people in Alabama say

"We're better than this." To that she replies,"No we aren't."
Now that is being realistic!

[George II]

12. Yeah, but they have a great professional college football team, that's what matters most to them.

[demigoddess]

13. This sounds like : I am happy when I get my way

but I don't care what happens to other people. typical republican stance.

[sinkingfeeling]

14. Watch out Mississippi, Alabama's coming for your title.

[Beartracks]

15. Conservative Republicans: The Results Speak for Themselves. n/t

[Renew Deal]

16. Aren't voters primarily to blame for this?

This is their choice?

[Hulk]

22. Yup...voters ARE to blame, but

Voter restriction and intimidation are a factor, and KKKristian hypocrite grip are a big piece of the puzzle.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

40. Orchestrated by white men in all-white churches....

that blindly follow Republican Jesus.......

[stonecutter357]

17. K&R

[matt819]

18. So close

So close to 50th or 1st. Gives them something to aim for.

It's a wonder people and multinationals aren't streaming to Alabama to enjoy such benefits.

[Initech]

19. Oh wont somebody please think of the children????

[underpants]

29. 😳

[azureblue]

32. only if they are white

Considering Alabama's history of racism, of lynching, of segregation of refusing to serve or help black children, this woman has some kind of nerve to preach about the sanctity of life. She's all about that until you bring up the subject of black kids.

[sop]

20. I'd like to see these statistics broken down by race and economic class

I suspect the worst schools, poorest health care, highest teen birth rates, highest infant mortality rates, neighborhoods with out-of-control crime and areas with the fewest economic opportunities are found in predominantly black counties. Just as intended.

[Hulk]

21. At one time considered moving there...

...no fucking way. The KKKristian extremists are deplorable hypocrites. I wouldn't want to expose my wife to such barbarians.

[Bengus81]

25. Keep voting for NEO CONS and see how much WORSE it can get.........

Pretty soon they'll be showing Mississippi how to really run a entire State into the ground.

[Midnight Writer]

26. Alabama will now spend millions defending this law in court. Rather than on listed problems.

[MarcA]

27. The lords, masters and authoritarian followers approve of the feudal state. n/t

[underpants]

28. Okay. This is funny

[BootinUp]

33. Very informative and disgusting. Nt

[Gothmog]

34. K&R

[Evolve Dammit]

36. With all due respect (zero), FU Governor

[trof]

37. That's my guv. AKA "Bloody Mary".

[Aussie105]

39. Alabama

is forging ahead, back to the Dark Ages.

. . . . almost there. Have a baby you don't want, but don't expect any support once the child is born. Education for the child? Employment opportunities for the child? Nope. Is he/she going to grow up to be a law abiding citizen, a patriot that loves his country? Odds on, I'd bet against it.

Time for another Dark Ages solution to unwanted pregnancies, the chastity belt?

Alabama . . . you don't want to be born there, you don't want to live there, you sure as hell want to avoid visiting it.
(If you really need to visit, wind your watch back a few centuries.)

[47of74]

42. What I think of Alabama tonight is not printable.

[MrScorpio]

43. Yet another reason why I'm glad that my great grandparents fled Alabama 90yrs ago

[Aussie105]

46. Wake up!

This sort of treatment of it's citizens in any other Democracy would lead to a major revolt and backlash from voters at the ballot box.

Wake up Alabama! Or do you like or want to be treated like idiot children, who can't make important life decisions for themselves?