Get ready Texas women--you knew it was coming

[Horse with no Name]

http://elpasotimes.typepad.com/capitol/2011/01/bills-to-show-women-sonograms-before-abortions-become-priority-in-texas.html

>>>snip
Bills to show women sonograms before abortions become priority in Texas

Gov. Rick Perry has fast-tracked legislation that requires physicians to show women a sonogram before they have an abortion.

Perry this weekend added the issue to his list of emergency items, giving lawmakers the ability to consider such bills in the first 30 days of the session.

“When you consider the magnitude of the decision to have an abortion, ensuring that the patient understands what’s truly at stake seems a small step to take,” Perry said in a statement. “When someone has all the information, the right choice – the choice of life – becomes clear. Now our legislature can take fast action on this important bill because we all know when it comes to saving lives, every second counts.”

The list of emergency item this session has now grown to five. Other emergency items that Perry has set include establishing tougher eminent domain laws, abolishing sanctuary cities for undocumented immigrants, requiring voters to present a photo identification at the polls and calling for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would require the federal government to have a balanced budget.

The state faces a budget shortfall of between $15 and $27 billion. Critics have questioned the governor's selection of such emergency items at a time when public education, higher education and health care are facing deep cuts.

[CBHagman]

1. A constitutional amendment is an "emergency."

:eyes:

[Horse with no Name]

2. gotta control the wimmin

and throw some red meat to the teabaggers--Perry wants to be POTUS and he is going to do it at the expense of Texas wimmin.

[Sal Minella]

9. . . . and at the expense of the babies/children the women know

they can't afford to raise decently.

I can't believe these guys who knock themselves out obstructing women who are trying to be responsible for their reproductive lives.

In Iowa the Puglies are trying to cut back both on birth control services for low-income women AND on preschool education for kids.

I think they haven't yet drafted a bill approving daily beatings for the developmentally disabled, but there's probably one in the works.

Meanwhile our new Republican Governor has hired hisself a personal chef.

[StarsInHerHair]

23. they LOVE them fetuses but don't give a damn after they're born

nt

[northofdenali]

35. They start "lubbin" 'em again when they're old enough

to be sent to Iraq or Afghanistan to fight the old men's wars.

K&R

[CBHagman]

48. That's revolting...

...but it certainly is a familiar tune.

[Terry in Austin]

44. "Constitutional amendment" is Texan for "passin a law"

The Texas constitution is a bulky, rigid, formidable document that takes up an entire bookshelf. The way things are set up, to do practically anything legislatively requires an amendment to the dang thing.

Gotta figure that's no surprise for a state where the governor is about number six in the power hierarchy, and it's actually the lieutenant governor who runs the joint. If indeed, anyone can be said to be actually running it.

[onehandle]

3. Perry makes Bush look like a Liberal and a Genius. nt

[gratuitous]

4. Any similar bill before Texas executes another person?

Or is the magnitude of that decision not very, uh, magnitudinous?

[Horse with no Name]

7. Well never mind he is into grandstanding

but he is very anti-woman. He will continue to use women to hide the fact that he knowingly let an innocent man be executed.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/3212375.html

>>>snip
FORT WORTH - In a ceremony filled with religious references, Gov. Rick Perry signed a bill at a church school gymnasium Sunday that imposes more limits on late-term abortions and requires minors to get written parental consent for abortions.

"And it has been a tragedy of unspeakable consequences that for decades activist courts denied many Texas parents their right to be involved in one of the most important decisions their young daughter could ever make — whether to end the life that was growing inside her," Perry told a crowd of about 1,000 people gathered at Calvary Christian Academy. "For too long, a blind eye has been turned to the rights of our most vulnerable human beings — that's the unborn in our society."

[StarsInHerHair]

24. you expect hypocrites to be consistent? never gonna happen, gotta be forced

I for one believe in forced honesty, it works on the stand...........

[Initech]

5. How do assholes like this get into power?

[RKP5637]

12. What concerns me even more than him are the damn fools that vote people

like him into power.

[donheld]

20. Assholes vote for them

[Initech]

38. What goes around comes around?

[Vickers]

6. Who's paying for that sonogram?

:shrug:

[Horse with no Name]

8. Well I am sure he can eliminate some teaching positions to pay for them

I mean, anyone that would refuse stimulus funds for the unemployed, yet use them to renovate the Governors mansion where he resides.... really has no shame.

[ehrnst]

34. The patient, of course. That's another layer of punishiment for these women. (nt)

[Carolina]

49. my thoughts exactly!

who will pay?!

[uppityperson]

10. k&r and what a f*ing asshole. "ensuring the pt understands what's truly at stake"?

And you seriously think anyone getting an abortion doesn't understand what ALL is at stake better than you you misogynistic freak? How the hell is this an "emergency" item?

[Citizen Worker]

11. Is Perry gearing up for a run at the nomination? Could be.

[charlie]

13. The Lege just zeroed funding

for those phoney-baloney "crisis pregnancy" centers (funding that was diverted from TANF, BTW). One of the few procedures they actually did was provide sonograms.

Perry's looking for a way to make their services a "necessary" part of the budget.

http://washingtonindependent.com/105028/texas-house-budget-zeroes-out-state-funding-for-crisis-pregnancy-resource-centers

[pacalo]

14. Is he going to edumacate the wimmens about who to turn to when

that fetus-turned-child is hungry & needs the other basic neccessities of life?

Or is he going to tell those wimmens that they're on their own; no gubmint help for raisin' those children he's pressuring them to keep?

It's okay for him to interfere with such a personal decision, but don't go running back to him when you need help as a result of his interference.

[luv_mykatz]

15. K & R

Grandstanding mofo. :(

[spooky3]

16. What's next - A Clockwork Orange-like clips to keep their eyes open

to make sure they watch it?

Horrifying.

[Ilsa]

17. Good grief. How about making funding our schools a top prioritty, Gov. Dunderhead? nt

[Recursion]

18. How about a bill to show the results of back-alley abortions to pro-life legislators? (nt)

[MattBaggins]

31. DUZY of the year

[DonCoquixote]

19. whats really scary

Florida rejected this idea, is Texas really wanting it's title as crazy hellhole?

[jmowreader]

21. I can just see it...

Doctor Tex: "I must show you the sonogram of your unborn child so you will have all the information and will be able to make the right choice, the choice of life."

(five second pause)

Patient: "Yeah, my rapist's baby would have been cute, wouldn't he? Now suck the little fucker out of me. Right now."

[krispos42]

22. So, will they also have to show a picture of a shotgun suicide before selling a gun?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[ehrnst]

33. Will OBs be required to show video of a c-section or episiotomies to newly pregnant women? (nt)

[NickB79]

43. How about a video clip of "Deliverance" before every prostate exam?

"Squeal like a pig, boy!"

[Carolina]

50. excellent point

[Le Taz Hot]

25. What I'd like to know

is what kind of counter there is to this insanity. Is the women's movement strong in Texas? I'm told it's not as red as it used to be and it's actually kind of purple. What kind of measures are being taken to fight this?

[Horse with no Name]

47. Rural Texas is crimson

through and through.

Most of the larger cities are blue or purple...but there are enough firebreathing, racist teabaggers to offset any progress that can be made.

To top it off--there is a BLACK POTUS. That is enough to bring every one of them out from under their rocks to elect more of the same.

I wish I could say that Perry is an abberance. Sadly, he isn't.

[w8liftinglady]

26. This as Texas prepares to cut Medicaid,Public schools.

yeah... they love the kids here.

[MilesColtrane]

27. The law he really wanted required that...

all mandatory sonograms be run through a CGI aging program so that woman seeking an abortion will be shown her fetus as a happy, successful 35 year old doctor with a family of three in church holding a bible and a basket of puppies.

[queenjane]

28. The Repigs here in NC want to do this, too (n/t)

[WinkyDink]

29. It's more invasive than you might think:

Transvaginal Scans: Specially designed probe transducers are used inside the vagina to generate sonogram images. Most often used during the early stages of pregnancy.

http://www.americanpregnancy.org/prenataltesting/ultrasound.html

[MattBaggins]

30. Now are they just going to have offer it or perform it?

What if the woman refuses to let them tough her, moves around so the sonogram is ruined or just plain refuses to look?

Will the woman have her right to refuse the procedure taken away?

[ehrnst]

32. He'll pass that cost along to the slut- er - woman who has the nerve to not want to have a baby. (nt

[DirkGently]

36. Texans should be shown a movie simulating reality before being allowed to vote for Perry.

[gauguin57]

37. DUzy!

DirkGently has given me my ROFL du jour.

[DirkGently]

40. Ha. My pleasure, gauguin. Happy Monday. erm.

[felix_numinous]

39. They love those little babies without any opinions

but as soon as they show any sign of independent thought? Then they get punished.

Their 'love' of life is completely conditional upon compliance with their worldview. This kind of love is not even love, isn't it called cathexis?

[1776Forever]

41. I lived in TX in the 70's and it still hasn't moved much even to the middle - sad. n/t

[Tsiyu]

42. When do we begin forcing men to

do anything?

When do we begin making legislators and those who vote for war look at pictures of maimed, dead children, and bombed out schools and decimated homes where old people used to live and crying fathers and grieving wives?

When in the fuck do we make MEN look at the consequences of their actions?

[Scout]

45. never, unless they've found a way to blame it on women n/t

[Rabrrrrrr]

46. "When someone has all the information, the right choice is clear" - except evolution, global warming

economics, history, mathematics...

jackass.