Well, clearly, we've discovered one thing that the GOP hates more than taxes: abortion. Thus a Kansas state bill to sales tax (and tax in other ways) the snot out of the abortion process, increasingly making it affordable only to the well off. Plus, it's extra money for the state (careful, guys — states have gotten addicted to anti-tobacco taxes, too).
More troubling (only relatively speaking) to me is outlawing the teaching of abortion techniques in Kansas public school medical programs. Not only would this mean that you couldn't actually become a qualified OB-GYN in those programs, it's essentially legally mandating ignorance of a legal medical process. Classy, and oh-so-Medieval.
Added "bonuses" are all the other anti-abortion provisions we've seen around the country: giving doctors immunity to malpractice if they withhold info from an expectant mother of prenatal health problems if that info could have led to a request for an abortion, forcing doctors to give unsubstantiated medical claims about abortion and breast cancer, forcing women to listen to fetal heartbeats before they can have an abortion, and every other trick they can pull out of the book.
It seems like Kansas is doing its best to stay in the race with other states for being the most anti-abortion state on the map. #ddtb
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Lawmakers in Kansas will consider next week a sweeping anti-abortion bill that would, among other things, levy sales taxes on any and all abortion procedures, related healthcare expenses and any compa…
Should republicans be allowed to write laws to force a doctor to twist your leg to prove that it is broken?
Women who choose surgery to save their family and their future from an unwanted pregnancy should not be ''Burned at the stake'', or ''Stoned'' by these medieval mindless republicans.
Identify these holy abusers of women and remove them from our government.
So, in other words, if I were young again today, and needed an abortion, as I did back in 1971, because my fetus had died, but my body did not expel it, I would be unable to find a doctor in Kansas able to do it, and if I did, on top of my grief, the State would send me a whopping big bill? Or would they make me pay first, and if I didn’t have the money, just let me die of peritonitus? Is it any wonder that some people say the GOP is waging a war against women?
Well, @Ellie, clearly one way or another you’d be a sinner, so deserve anything that happened to you. Jesus said so, according to Pastor Fred.
Isn’t KS also a state that almost (or completely–no brain here due to headache) outlaws the teaching of evolution, birth control, and wants to make pi equal to 3?
Thus far, KS is nearly ensuring their own downfall wrt education in the state.
@Marina – The “pi” item was Indiana, around the turn of the previous century. The rest is, I believe, accurate.
As a whole GOP politicians seem very, very interested in low taxes and high personal freedom … except when it's something they don't like, in which case it's perfectly acceptable to make it economically burdensome, if not illegal. (The Dems have their own weaknesses here, too, but presently the statehouses of America seem filled with GOP nuts, and they're the current big problem.)
Taxes no longer make much difference. The Deregulated corporate owners of America SET the prices and take money DIRECTLY for you. They used your money to BUY our once free press and to select, advertise and install their politicians into our state and federal governments.
These ''Hot Button Issues'' are fabricated for the purpose of dividing and distracting Americans from the real problems that are bankrupting them and their governments and repossessing America for the Transnational Military Industrial Complex.
Hmmm. I tend to worry more about these hot button issues, to be honest. Perhaps I've been successfully distracted.