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39. Sicko!

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Sat Dec 29, 2012, 12:34 PM

Dec 2012

KS has a serious mental problem.

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Kansas Doctor Under Attack For Not Forcing Ten Year Old Rape Victim To Give Birth [View all] ashling Dec 2012 OP

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr dembotoz Dec 2012 #1

You and me too Taverner Dec 2012 #81

MORE INFO. This happened June 2012. Doesn't make it better but thought you might like to know AND uppityperson Dec 2012 #157

That poor child has already suffered too much. In_The_Wind Dec 2012 #2

Kansas, a nice place to say one is from as in gone! n/t RKP5637 Dec 2012 #3

I lived there once for a while liberal_at_heart Dec 2012 #106

Long story short, it's really gotten weird and now weirder in Kansas! RKP5637 Dec 2012 #118

kansASS malz Dec 2012 #156

Yep, that's a good description anymore. What a shame. n/t RKP5637 Dec 2012 #161

So, HOW fucked up is Kansas these days, anyway? MrMickeysMom Dec 2012 #4

The governor wants women running around barefoot and popping babies in the RKP5637 Dec 2012 #6

Jeebus.... MrMickeysMom Dec 2012 #10

Citizen's United was/is criminal IMO and too bad SCOTUS can't be held accountable!!! Too many RKP5637 Dec 2012 #14

The reason many people dont vote is because they dont think it makes any difference davidn3600 Dec 2012 #27

Yep, excellent point! When it comes to $$$$$ and interests thereof, there is sadly a tremendous RKP5637 Dec 2012 #34

Oh bullshit. FDR was very rich. The Kennedy's too. Many more very populist progressives too. xtraxritical Dec 2012 #49

Perhaps I'm an outlier Lefty Thinker Dec 2012 #52

Very true! Often it's forgotten that many extremely wealthy people are democrats, because RKP5637 Dec 2012 #121

the republican party does not represent your business interests newspeak Dec 2012 #167

Do you have to work to pay your monthly expenses or can you live off your dividend income? If the coalition_unwilling Dec 2012 #168

Because of this perception (right or wrong) people don't vote in off-year elections Freddie Dec 2012 #80

when thy cut their welfare check it will wake them up nt shintao Dec 2012 #91

But they refuse to vote for those they might identify with quakerboy Dec 2012 #96

Well said!!! Thanks!!! n/t RKP5637 Dec 2012 #122

Yep... MrMickeysMom Dec 2012 #146

It may not make a difference if you vote.........but.......... thelordofhell Dec 2012 #109

We better have someone good to run against Corbett! Freddie Dec 2012 #25

Don't forget about something else our governor said... PennsylvaniaMatt Dec 2012 #26

The real solution is to utterly destroy ALEC... Cooley Hurd Dec 2012 #40

By what means... other than to strike down Citizen's United? MrMickeysMom Dec 2012 #42

ALEC has already received body blows by going after its corporate sponsors... Cooley Hurd Dec 2012 #48

The same way RNC used right to work to crush unions. shintao Dec 2012 #92

For Freddie and PA Mat... MrMickeysMom Dec 2012 #41

They have changed my district to the place I will never have a Rep that reflects my views at appleannie1 Dec 2012 #131

Maybe we'll get lucky and KS will secede? lark Dec 2012 #56

Obviously, you have never been to Lafayette. Come visit some time. You'd be surprised. juajen Dec 2012 #165

Interesting, the southern strategy... MrMickeysMom Dec 2012 #174

Hm. No more treks through Kansas then. Panasonic Dec 2012 #99

Too many Glenn Beck'er types, too many Rush Limbaugh'ers and the herd IMO. n/t RKP5637 Dec 2012 #119

Hm. Well, I am deaf, and I refuse to let my son listen to hate radio. Panasonic Dec 2012 #143

Reproductive Rights and the Long Hand of Slave Breeding ProfessionalLeftist Dec 2012 #5

+4,249 Angry Dragon Dec 2012 #8

Which is why the 13th Amendment should have been the basis ohheckyeah Dec 2012 #76

I'm getting so sick of all the blatant insanity. Kablooie Dec 2012 #7

You ask what's happened to this country? I'm reading a book... truth2power Dec 2012 #32

. Peace_Sells Dec 2012 #82

I keep asking myself, almost daily if I'm hallucinating or living in some alternative universe :) DearHeart Dec 2012 #162

Reason? LOL! Arizona went crazy shintao Dec 2012 #93

This pisses me off too much to even render plethoro Dec 2012 #9

. BlancheSplanchnik Dec 2012 #11

Kansas, so fucked up it should... NYtoBush-Drop Dead Dec 2012 #12

It's not just Kansas though.... ProfessionalLeftist Dec 2012 #19

I often tell people to be alert, we are heading toward a RKP5637 Dec 2012 #20

I have been saying this for decades-- "the handmaid's tale" used to be a nightmare possibility, niyad Dec 2012 #45

Dang, Niyad lark Dec 2012 #63

it was first published in 1985-nearly three decades, so, yeah, that long. . . niyad Dec 2012 #158

Scary good book abelenkpe Dec 2012 #137

That book seems now as eerily prophetic as Orwell's "1984" - really creepy the coalition_unwilling Dec 2012 #170

+10,000 smirkymonkey Dec 2012 #148

I think they should secede and then we could declare war on them. smirkymonkey Dec 2012 #172

Kick. Heidi Dec 2012 #13

Only... they haven't 'become' that way, it's how they've always been. PeaceNikki Dec 2012 #15

Pagan cult worship of the egg and the forthcoming baby in cultures of the past, now accepted as DhhD Dec 2012 #31

Sick. They should rot in jail along with her uncle. SunSeeker Dec 2012 #16

Which raises the question...What about her uncle? He should be serving life in prison. Is he? ... truth2power Dec 2012 #33

Ironic that these nuts are attacking the doctor who saved her instead of the uncle who raped her. SunSeeker Dec 2012 #36

and the doctor has the right to abort if the female is in danger newspeak Dec 2012 #69

+1000 smirkymonkey Dec 2012 #173

I'm thinking Dorothy would not want to be in Kansas anymore. asjr Dec 2012 #17

perhaps not donquijoterocket Dec 2012 #59

I think the so-called sulphurdunn Dec 2012 #18

It's a large wagon they all climb on to gather money and to promote their RW causes, akin RKP5637 Dec 2012 #23

I swear, all that pesticide is rotting their brains. Odin2005 Dec 2012 #21

They've already taken her medical license away. This article is 4 months old. proud2BlibKansan Dec 2012 #22

Rachel Maddow was probably told by TPTB in Comcast to stop coverage. I think RKP5637 Dec 2012 #30

+1 freshwest Dec 2012 #62

Sadly, that makes sense. proud2BlibKansan Dec 2012 #163

Thank you for the additional information. LisaLynne Dec 2012 #58

I've been posting about them for a couple years now. proud2BlibKansan Dec 2012 #68

Thank you. LisaLynne Dec 2012 #75

Such corruption! freshwest Dec 2012 #60

These people titanicdave Dec 2012 #24

I teach PE and health. WinstonSmith4740 Dec 2012 #28

10 year old? Pregnant? WhoIsNumberNone Dec 2012 #29

First, the child was raped HockeyMom Dec 2012 #35

I've known a couple 9 year olds who got pregnant. They were raped. proud2BlibKansan Dec 2012 #37

It has been known to happen. Chorophyll Dec 2012 #38

not that it is particularly helpful in this case, but I have been reading for years about earlier niyad Dec 2012 #50

I was looking through an old HS yearbook (50's) recently.... truth2power Dec 2012 #55

Big Mac & order of Fries changed nt. shintao Dec 2012 #95

Nope. Some of the young girls are pretty hefty. But even the 100 pounders have a generous bust size. truth2power Dec 2012 #129

Thank you. that's the problem I was referring to WhoIsNumberNone Dec 2012 #74

i remember a "freak show" display at Coney Island musette_sf Dec 2012 #88

Females are going through puberty sooner due to pesticides siligut Dec 2012 #54

well moonlady0623 Dec 2012 #90

Youngest mother in history was only 5yo, and that was in 1939, in Peru Xithras Dec 2012 #112

Earlier puberty is a very important public health indicator. It is like the canary in the coal mine, lunasun Dec 2012 #130

Sicko! SoapBox Dec 2012 #39

This is one of the cases where energumen Dec 2012 #43

Because you are thinking logically... awoke_in_2003 Dec 2012 #66

I'm surprised there are any women who live in anti-choice states. caseymoz Dec 2012 #44

Yet there are hundreds of thousands of us. proud2BlibKansan Dec 2012 #46

I mean, I have to admit ... LisaLynne Dec 2012 #57

I'm not about to let them win. proud2BlibKansan Dec 2012 #73

They wouldn't win. caseymoz Dec 2012 #135

How would not bringing it up help at all? caseymoz Dec 2012 #134

I took a US Governmet class... awoke_in_2003 Dec 2012 #67

If I may hazard a guess . . . Brigid Dec 2012 #77

Oh, they had heard of it... awoke_in_2003 Dec 2012 #84

Opinions tend to be segregated that way. caseymoz Dec 2012 #136

The 10 year old girl does not have much choice where she lives. McCamy Taylor Dec 2012 #175

No kidding? I wasn't aware of that. caseymoz Jan 2013 #177

does anybody know what happened to that rapist uncle? the article did not say. niyad Dec 2012 #47

He is in prison. proud2BlibKansan Dec 2012 #70

sorry none of this true Heather MC Dec 2012 #51

What is really scary is that you jest, yet Rex Dec 2012 #78

Sick sick sick. MadrasT Dec 2012 #53

That makeup comment FlaGranny Dec 2012 #145

How could something like this happen when there is no war on women? Auntie Bush Dec 2012 #61

Another instance of "Jesus" plus nothing, for everyone but SUBSIDY-Sam & his "Christian" fascists.nt patrice Dec 2012 #64

10 years old???? WTF???? Initech Dec 2012 #65

I think we have yet to learn the answer to that. Brigid Dec 2012 #71

Very cruel and heartless. That's how much. proud2BlibKansan Dec 2012 #72

They are a truly vile bunch indeed. Initech Dec 2012 #100

Kansas: The "heartland" of America. Dawson Leery Dec 2012 #79

They are into punishment libodem Dec 2012 #83

well because "grace" and "mercy" is for them, and judgement for the special needs 10 year olds CreekDog Dec 2012 #123

I think I'm going to be ill. progressoid Dec 2012 #85

and unless I'm mistaken, the uncle can demand custody and/or visitation of the child from rape Dog Gone at Penigma Dec 2012 #86

An ugly microcosm how how fucked up much of the religious right, indepat Dec 2012 #87

This message was self-deleted by its author moonlady0623 Dec 2012 #89

2014's not that far away. Vote the assholes out of office that are destroying your state, people. judesedit Dec 2012 #94

Not in Kansas, I don't think ... In 2012 they voted far right and all indications are this RKP5637 Dec 2012 #127

Some people in this country are making the Taliban seem a bit tame. liberalmuse Dec 2012 #97

A bunch of sick bastards that send our children to kill for oil.Do you really expect anything differ judesedit Dec 2012 #98

shit. at 10, make up should not even be a consideration yet. a kid. just a kid. nt seabeyond Dec 2012 #101

SICK, SICK, SICK. northoftheborder Dec 2012 #102

I know there are some good people in Kansas, but, damn, it seems most are batshit crazy and valerief Dec 2012 #103

And TPTB in KS wonder why more people move away from KS than move into KS ... RKP5637 Dec 2012 #128

We should just refer to these bozos as White Talibanists flying-skeleton Dec 2012 #104

according to the christian taliban, a 10-year old being brutally raped is just gawd's will... Raster Dec 2012 #105

GOD I HATE THESE PEOPLE!!!!!! Lunabelle Dec 2012 #107

called the state tourism board to let them know that, so long as the crazies are running niyad Dec 2012 #108

I already stay away. McCamy Taylor Dec 2012 #114

Not too much tourism in Kansas unless Seedersandleechers Dec 2012 #132

Biggest tourist attraction in Kansas is an outlet mall next to a Nascar track pstokely Dec 2012 #160

I have stayed away for many years, but think it important to tell them we are staying away niyad Dec 2012 #152

Wouldn't that be Sharia Law that they want to use? LiberalFighter Dec 2012 #110

Pretty much - Sharia Law and Biblical Law aren't that different. Initech Dec 2012 #141

Sharia Tagish_Charlie Dec 2012 #153

k and r..nt Stuart G Dec 2012 #111

Where do I go to file a CPS case against the state of Kansas? McCamy Taylor Dec 2012 #113

omg...I am sitting here with my 11 year old granddaughters..and it is FRIGHTENING onecent Dec 2012 #115

If God is anything like the Fundies say . . . Jack Rabbit Dec 2012 #116

Mere words can not capture how appalled & outraged I am by this story. salin Dec 2012 #117

Also if she survived the pregnancy and birth... CraftyGal Dec 2012 #120

There are things you just can't unlearn mythology Dec 2012 #124

To all of the above leanforward Dec 2012 #125

Thank God for people like Dr. Neuhaus Smilo Dec 2012 #126

Im posting a link to the Associated Press story about this iamthebandfanman Dec 2012 #133

I read that article, and it was sickening. it was clearly a witch hunt, "whahhhhhh, she didn't niyad Dec 2012 #171

Diseased is right. blackspade Dec 2012 #138

Wow. heavily Catholic Latin American countries also believe in forced birth for girls! alp227 Dec 2012 #139

That is sick. nt Budgies Revenge Dec 2012 #140

TEN??!!! TEN??!! WHAT THE HELL IS MISSING IN THESE PEOPLE'S BRAINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lexw Dec 2012 #142

We need to start a crusade of our own! Fantastic Anarchist Dec 2012 #144

Many times, when feeling bad about being Texan - Up pops Kansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Misery ... panzerfaust Dec 2012 #147

I hope this poor woman get out of Kansas before someone kills her. Walk away Dec 2012 #149

I apologize in advance for this sarcastic remark davidpdx Dec 2012 #150

The doctor is a woman melody Dec 2012 #155

I stand corrected on the gender of the doctor davidpdx Dec 2012 #159

this is the same state that tried to outlaw the serving of alcohol on planes flying across the state DrDan Dec 2012 #151

As Randi always says the rethugs love. The fetus bigdarryl Dec 2012 #154

all I can say is... 6502 Dec 2012 #164

way to go, dr.ann! robertpat5519du Dec 2012 #166

I have family in Kansas mokawanis Dec 2012 #169

Sick sick sick DiverDave Jan 2013 #176

It is not a well place, and is getting worse and worse. n/t RKP5637 Jan 2013 #178