Statehouse Monument to Dead Fetus

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Thirty-three state House members, including four local legislators, have put their support behind a proposed statehouse monument that would memorialize “South Carolina children whose lives ended before their birth.”

Reps. Wendell Gilliard (D-Charleston), Jim Merrill (R-Daniel Island), Tim Scott (R-North Charleston), and Mike Sottile (R-Isle of Palms) are co-sponsors of the bill. The monument would be paid for through private donations (the bill stresses that donors would not have to be revealed in public financial disclosures), and the state would be expected to pay for the maintenance of the monument.

The bill reads:

A JOINT RESOLUTION
TO CREATE THE SOUTH CAROLINA UNBORN CHILDREN’S MONUMENT COMMISSION TO ERECT A MONUMENT ON THE STATE HOUSE GROUNDS AS A MEMORIAL TO SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN WHOSE LIVES ENDED BEFORE THEIR BIRTH AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE COMMISSION AND TO REQUIRE PRIVATE FUNDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THIS MONUMENT.

Usually, we would just label this is pandering and move on without mention, but 33 out of 124 representatives is a healthy sample of support. It’s the latest in a flood of anti-abortion legislation, including a proposal for a 24-hour waiting period before abortions. That bill is expected to be debated next week.

(Monument in PA)

http://www.indigojournal.com/

SC is just a laugh a minute. Unemployment is heading towards double digits, but who cares?

[summer borealis]

1. Rise, Dumbfuckistan!

You can't fix your economy, you can't replace lost jobs, you can't make food safe, etc.
Oh, but you can do this! What a government! What a country!
ROFL.

[Mist]

2. The fetishization of the fetus seems to be peculiarly American. n

[sarge43]

3. I'm waiting for a Wall with all the names of all the women

who died in childbirth or due to a fatal pregnancy.

Never mind. There isn't enough room or material on this planet.

[enough]

14. Yes, and for all the women who died after unskilled abortions in times and places

where abortion was illegal.

[sarge43]

17. To be sure. n/t

[hobbit709]

4. South Carolina legislature

Living proof that the gene pool needs chlorinating. Along with that idiot sheriff that wanted to arrest Michael Phelps based on a photo.

[Vinca]

5. Okay, then how about a monument to the 18,000 Americans

who die every year because they can't afford health insurance? Idiots. They're nothing but a bunch of embryo worshippers. Once the baby is born it's on its own.

[mac56]

7. We love the babies until they're born!

:eyes:

[RadiationTherapy]

6. "Enlighted" by christ?? Enlighted?

[Cobalt-60]

8. they had to fit it on one line

And their cutter selected too large a font.
Seriously though, these people really are a pack of certifiable whack jobs.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

34. Yeah, "embiggened" didn't fit.

[surrealAmerican]

16. Surely, as soon as you put those words on the monument, ...

... it becomes a religious monument, and thus something the state has no business funding or displaying.

[RadiationTherapy]

18. Yes, but over at Dictionary.com ...

No results found for enlighted:
Did you mean unlighted (in dictionary) or Enlighten (in reference)?

[surrealAmerican]

22. You're right.

That's what I get for not looking carefully.

[Somawas]

9. I wonder if they'd also like to erect a monument to

a hemorrhoid I once had surgically removed? The millions of hangnails cut off in their prime each year in the state?

[MajorChode]

10. Not only are wingnuts illiterate, they don't give one shit about "babies"....

"unborn" or born. It's not a baby until it is born. It's a fetus or simply an embryo.

When the wingnuts vehemently opposed the expansion of SCHIP, they once again proved they could care less about children, born or otherwise. They routinely oppose pre and post natal programs like WIC and Medicaid. They abhor public education, access to birth control, and any other program that doesn't originate from the most evangelical churches. They could care less that some areas of the US have higher infant mortality rates than some 3rd world countries.

[depakid]

11. but they didn't prosecute Michael Phelps for taking a bong hit!

so maybe there's hope yet....

[Vickers]

12. -10 for spelling

:eyes:

[RadiationTherapy]

19. It's all so goddamned embarrassing.

I work at a university and am a returning student; I could never rant enough about the rampant "partial literacy" around here.

[Alcibiades]

13. I am glad I got out

Though the misspelled monument is in Easton, PA, as it clearly states on the monument. Not sure about it today, but the KoC was not big in Columbia when I was growing up. We have had our own history with knightly fraternal organizations that wear strange garments and have freaky beliefs.

South Carolina is truly an idiocracy. Almost everyone with any brains who is able to leave it all behind does--Jesse Jackson and Vanna White, for example. I always thought it said something about James Brown that he actually chose to go back and live there.

[raccoon]

15. Oh, God, when I read that thread title, I thought, PLEASE don't let it be SC.

I'm going to request political asylum in MN.

[pipi_k]

20. I wonder, does the term "unborn" also apply

to those unlucky pre-fertilized zygotes that ended up disposed of in used tampons or maxi pads each month?


If not, then I also wonder why they hate pre-fertilized zygotes as well as the post-born babies...

[anonymous171]

21. lol nt

[Stevenmarc]

23. Who are these people, and why are they exploiting Madonna

[TwilightGardener]

24. Beyond retarded. I'm ashamed that both of my kids were born in South Carolina.

[Starry Messenger]

25. Does this mean I can make a monument to Onan?

For all the wasted sperm, unembraced...who weeps for them?

[pipi_k]

26. Oh, and we haven't even considered the mass slaughter

of millions of sperm that don't get to fertilize an ovum, as hard as they try.

Imagine being that close, yet so far away. A virtual sperm lottery.


Only one winner (usually)...

the rest...left to die like battle-scarred salmon fighting and clawing their way upriver...except that the unlucky sperm have fought and died for nothing...

Life is cruel!



~bowing my head in solemn remembrance of the mighty sperm

[Starry Messenger]

27. Exactly. I want public funding for THAT.

C'mon guys, who is with us?

[pipi_k]

28. maybe this guy...

[bunkerbuster1]

29. Nitpick alert--can we lay off the un-medical use of "fetus" and call 'em "embryos" instead?

since about 85% of elective abortions take place in the first trimester, when the being within is considered by the medical community as an "embryo", it bugs me when people refer to a "aborted fetus."

The vast majority actually aren't.

[SeattleGirl]

30. Too bad they don't care as much about the babies that ARE born.

Assholes.

[AlCzervik]

31. Love the fetus, hate the child.

[nc4bo]

33. Bumper sticker material right here ^^. I'd insert the initial of the offending state

in front, like this: SC: Love the fetus, hate the child.

Yep. Works for me.

[pipi_k]

32. Hey, and I just thought of something...

One person got this as a memorial...








But these imbeciles are memorializing millions of dead embryos and one stinking little stone is the best they can do?

Cheap fuckers!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

35. Wait a sec. There's one in Pennsylvania?

Not on public grounds, I hope.

[Hubert Flottz]

36. The republicans need to do things like that to keep the voters

from noticing that their state is in a world of shit economically.

A vote buying trick...

Here is how to counteract that right wing bullshit...

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&rlz=1W1DKUS_en&ei=LkCcSeeLFNe4twf2rdzaBA&resnum=0&q=depleted+uranium+babies&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=N0CcSd-jENLjtgeN_bzXBA&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wKWrPKV5VU

I'll bet if there is a God out there somewhere, that he or she, knows about Depleted Uranium babies.

[Solly Mack]

37. Well. Hmm. That's fucked up in more ways than one init?