The GOP is a party full of monsters.

Evil monsters.

They actually enjoy making people suffer.

They should have allowed Dems supporters to have abortions, even encourage them.

tickleandrose wrote on Dec 7^th, 2025 at 12:53pm:


It is cruel and very sad.

When the woman’s water breaks before the fetus has developed lungs and cannot survive it still cannot be aborted but has to be carried. Partial miscarriage? The same. The fetus must be septic and turned the womb septic thus placing the woman’s life in danger before anything can be done. This in a country with 8 to 2 times the maternal death rate of Australia. Peanut states like Alabama had 40 maternal deaths per 100,000 births, Australia has 5.

But say the birth proceeds normally—what is the effect on the mother of that birth? Her health insurance, employment situation, educational chances etc?

In a decade or so—a huge cohort of unwanted children turning into juvenile delinquents. Pro life, what a sad joke.

Leroy wrote on Dec 7^th, 2025 at 1:36pm:


Leroy, imagine that your daughter (I have no idea if you have any children) is out at a party one night. Through no fault of her own, her drink is spiked and she ends up getting raped by an offender who fails to use a condom and she ends up pregnant. Lets assume you live in the U.S. state of Texas in which there is a blanket ban on abortion - no exceptions.

Your daughter is not legally permitted to abort the pregnancy and she must take the pregnancy to full term. Now imagine she is 15 years old - not 18 or 21 or 25. Do you still support this blanket ban on abortion? What if it was discovered during a regular pregnancy scan that the baby was diagnosed with trisomy 18, a genetic disorder that results in the unborn baby developing horrific physical defects that make it very unlikely it will survive to full term and that without an abortion, this unborn baby threatens the life of the pregnant girl - your daughter. Do you still support this blanket ban on abortion?

This isn't theoretical - it's happening in states across the United States right now.

John Smith wrote on Dec 7^th, 2025 at 2:59pm:


100%.

They see The Handmaid's Tale as a comedy series.

John Smith wrote on Dec 7^th, 2025 at 5:24pm:


Yup, instruction manual.

Armchair_Politician wrote on Dec 8^th, 2025 at 5:13am:



I would advise Leroy not to interact with sufferers of the infectious disease
TDS

Armchair_Politician wrote on Dec 7^th, 2025 at 2:07pm:


Where have I supported a blanket ban on abortion.

John Smith wrote on Dec 7^th, 2025 at 5:24pm:


Even the bits where the young girls and women were made sex slaves to the powers that be.

Women in their place ... and that is awaiting the instruction and brutalisation of man.

John Smith wrote on Dec 8^th, 2025 at 7:21am:



Or reduced outrage against such things as TDS.

Comparative maternal death rates:

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2024/jun/insights-us-...

Covid did increase maternal deaths somewhat.

Leroy wrote on Dec 8^th, 2025 at 8:26am:


Surely you have an opinion.

Frank wrote on Dec 8^th, 2025 at 12:08pm:


Wrong. The only states in the U.S. that have abortion bans are Republican states. Not one Democrat state has a total abortion ban - only GOP states do.

Armchair_Politician wrote on Dec 8^th, 2025 at 5:45pm:



Let the people vote them out of office if they don't like it.

The decision is with the people in each state. That is the long and short of it.

Leroy wrote on Dec 8^th, 2025 at 7:45pm:


so you'll voice your opinion whether someone is interested in it or not?

Frank wrote on Dec 8^th, 2025 at 7:21pm:


That's getting harder as GOP states tweak electoral maps to their advantage.

Awww... Frankie just loves his Babylon Bee, doesn't he?

It's like his own little kindergarten. 

Armchair_Politician wrote on Aug 15^th, 2026 at 8:17am:

Is that the word on Farcebook??

Armchair_Politician wrote on Dec 8^th, 2025 at 5:45pm:


Not wrong at all. In a federation it is important to keep a clear demarcation between state and federal legislative authority. The Supreme Court, with Roe v Wade,  usurped state legislative authority to itself.
In the latest Supreme Court decision the Court reversed that usurpation.

The people of each of the States can make a democratic decision about abortion laws in their own states. They can elect pro- or anti-abortion political representatives. Just because you do not agree with some views doesnt mean that they are illegitimate. Abortion, like many other issues are openly debated and put to the vote. There ard jurisdictions where the majority agree with you, just as there are jurisdictions where they disagree with you.  This is the very essence of the diffusion and balance of political power.

Armchair_Politician wrote on Aug 15^th, 2026 at 8:17am:


Yes, but one must marvel at the ethical gymnastics at play here. Frank supports abortion rights. Always has.

Here he is, highlighting the importance of the balance of state and federal powers, Constitutional demarcations between jurisdictions, state legislative authority, legal precedent and the reversal of usurpation, etc, etc, etc, but do you know?

He secretly has no problem with abortion at all. Yes, like his very own DL, the old boy couldn't give a hoot.

For the old boy, it's a matter of principle. He's a real legal eagle, that one. Don't get him started on the essence of the diffusion and balance of political power - we could be here all day!

Just don't mention the fraught legal justification for presidential candidates threatening to "overturn all rules, laws and articles, including those in the Constitution". Don't ask when they get caught on tape bullying state election officials to find them 11,800 more votes - "which is one more than what we need". Or have seven state electoral college certificates forged and sent to Congress to declare them the winner of an election they lost. There are way too many overlapping demarcations there, clearly.

And whatever you do, don't raise the Constitutional pretext for presidents staying in power for a third term. The old boy doesn't like to talk about that.

No, the old boy would rather leave controversial legal topics like that alone. Curiously, his legal repertoire consists solely of justifications for removing rights he secretly supports.

That's not a special kind of stupid. It's a mark of devotion.

Yes, Master.

None of you clowns can address the point of this issue, all ou can do is swiftly change the topic and grimace idiotically and yelp 'Trump. Trump'.

Frank wrote on Aug 15^th, 2026 at 2:34pm:


Most etgical of you, old chap. I'm sure the rest of us read the article in the OP and said ah. Only in America, eh?

A mother with a twin dying in her womb: herself at risk of organ failure and brain damage - two lives at risk. The doctors are prevented from performing a procedure they've been doing for years - the termination of a dying baby at three months. The medical advice? Travel to another state for an abortion - quick.

Another woman suffers blood clots in her brain while nine weeks pregnant. She's declared brain-dead, spends 16 weeks on life support to support her baby. At six months, they deliver and turn off the machine, ending her life. Not even her parents could make that decision. The baby was born extremely premature - unknown prognosis or if they're disabled, the article doesn't say. At least two other women in Georgia have died after having medical terminations knocked back.

For the rest of us, citizens of a normal, full democracy, it's bleedingly obvious. It's obvious even in the most backward authoritarian states where medical abortions are permitted. To you?

Not wrong at all. The very essence of the diffusion and balance of political power. Clear demarcation between state and federal legislative authority. Usurpation. A giggle about Dems killing 18 year olds, which wasn't really a giggle at all.

DL said it first. He then krapped on about Tylenol causing autism.

The article's not about SCOTUS, it's about the politicization of wombs. The current federal administration's a joke - at best. At worst, they've made health care unaffordable for anyone without a job - such as young, pregnant women. And if you're young, pregnant and - ahem - black, you've got a far higher chance of dying during childbirth, a problem the rest of the developed world seems to have solved.

Only in America, old boy. Only you.

Paki gob on a stick wrote on Aug 15^th, 2026 at 4:17pm:



State laws.

Federal laws are not guaranteed to any more faultless.

Stop grimacing.