I’ve written before about PRENDA (Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act) and the nonsense “abortion is black genocide” narrative (here). As you may recall, it’s the basis for Operation Spite Babies.
I don’t have much to add on the matter, but I do want to point out this quote about which I have been laughing all morning:
Last March I wrote about a bill Jan Brewer signed into law in Arizona, House Bill 2443, which makes it a felony for a doctor to perform an abortion based on the sex or race of the fetus. Apparently, Trent Franks (R-Ladyhater) decided that women and minorities nationwide were in danger of extinction, and that what we really need is a federal version of Arizona’s crazy-ass bill.
Introducing PRENDA –the Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act. At this point, I can’t decide which is more outrageous — the bill itself or the fact that these racist misogynist clowns decided to name their bill after Susan B. Anthony and Frederick fucking Douglass.
From Think Progress,
The bill seeks to somehow protect the “civil rights” of fetuses by banning physicians from performing abortions based on the fetus’s race or sex. While the woman would be exempt from prosecution, physicians who perform the procedure can be sued for damages. Continue reading
Part of me loves this so hard that I want to take it out back and get it pregnant. The other part of me wants to abort this monstrosity and never speak of it again.
And a third more semantic part of me wishes everyone in the world would cut the “oe” crap.
“Foetus.”
Damn, y’all. I don’t know what to do. White people keep giving me mixed signals. First they’re all, “Hey! Stop having so many abortions! Abortion is black genocide! Your snatch is the deadliest snatch in all the land! Quit aborting all the future Obamas!”
So I’m like, okay! I’ll start breeding! And I did. I had five little spite babies (I was supposed to have six, but I aborted one because it got a little too familiar in utero, if you know what I mean and you probably don’t).
I’m thinking, “Sweet! I hit the black lady sweepstakes! Finally the GOP cares about me and my snatch!”
But then Newt’s little pet organization, the American Family Association1, decided to open its mouth, and now I’m all confused again:
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Tagged abortion, abortion rights, American Family Association, Angry Black Lady, Bryan Fischer, Deadliest Snatch, racism, Republicans are asshats, spite babies, women's health, women's rights
The GOP is scared of your crotch, ladies. I’m serious.
Last week, during a debate on Florida legislation that would prevent union dues from being automatically deducted from government paychecks, Scott Randolph (D-Orlando) used his time during floor debate to call the GOP out on their hypocrisy. He pointed out that the GOP is staunchly “small government” when it comes to business, but “big government” when it comes to the little guy and their own pet interests — like lady parts.
Apparently the GOP leadership of the House didn’t like the one-liner.
They told Democrats that Randolph is not to discuss body parts on the House floor.
“The point was that Republicans are always talking about deregulation and big government,” Randolph said Thursday. “And I always say their philosophy is small government for the big guy and big government for the little guy. And so, if my wife’s uterus was incorporated or my friend’s bedroom was incorporated, maybe they (Republicans) would be talking about deregulating.
It’s not like I used slang,” said Randolph, who actually got the line from his wife. He said Republicans voiced concern about young pages hearing the word uterus.
“I think it’s a sad commentary about what we think about sex education in the state,” he said.
He’s right. We all know that. According to the Teabilly Doctrine, the government should be teeny-tiny when it comes to regulating big business. But when it comes to lady business, the government is so fucking big that I wouldn’t be surprised if the military starts forcing women to quarter soldiers in their vaginas.
IT COULD HAPPEN.
::ahem::
Here’s what Katie Betta, the Florida GOP spokeswoman — woman! – had to say: (DANGER! SCARY VAGINA AHEAD!!1)
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Tagged asshats, Florida, GOP, John Mayer, lady stuff, Republicans are asshats, spite babies, Teabillies, Tiny Vagina Governments, uterati, Uterus, vagina dentata, Why do you hate women?, WTF!?, your vagina frightens me
The Teabilly assholes in Indiana are trying to pass HB 1210. It’s an abortion bill because of course it is. And concerned Rep. Turner is concerned — that women are going to lie about rape and incest to get… oh, go read the title of this post. I don’t even want to type it again:
TURNER: With all do respect to Rep. Riecken, I understand what she’s trying to do. But as you know that when the federal health care bill was going through Congress there was a lot of discussion whether this would allow for abortion coverage and of course we were all told it would not. And the bill, my house bill 1210, would prevent that for any insurance company to provide abortion coverage under federal health care bill. This [amendment] would open that window and I would ask you to oppose this amendment.
I just want you to think about this, in my view, giant loophole that could be created where someone who could — now i want to be careful, I don’t want to disparage in any way someone who has gone through the experience of a rape or incest — but someone who is desirous of an abortion could simply say that they’ve been raped or there’s incest.
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Tagged abortion, abortion rights, Angry Black Lady, die in a fire, Eric Turner, INDIANA, lady stuff, rape, Republicans are asshats, seriously somebody please kill me a little, somebody kill me now, spite babies, women's rights
THIS JUST IN: part of your head just exploded.
In pushing this bill through, Republicans in Arizona relied on “statistics” showing that a high percentage of minority women are seeking abortions in clinics purposefully located in minority communities. Republicans also cited statistics demonstrating that some populations are seeking more and more abortions because they don’t like the sex of the fetus (really!? no the fuck they’re not.)
BREAKING: the rest of your head just exploded.
Essentially, this law attempts to turn abortion into a hate crime in order to lend an air of credibility to the absolutely bullshit theory that abortion is some sort of black genocide.
::sigh::
Here’s the thing about hate crimes: They are different from “regular” crimes in that proof of hate crimes require proof of a little somethin’ extra — prejudicial motivation.
For example: It’s one thing to assault a guy and steal his wallet. It’s quite another thing to assault a guy while calling him a homo and screaming about how you’re going to teach queers a lesson, and then steal his wallet. Both are crimes. The latter is fairly undeniably a hate crime.
Of course, the former may also be a hate crime; maybe the assailant only steals gay people’s wallets and maybe he keeps a journal somewhere entitled Number of Queer Wallets Stolen. Suck it, Homos! which can be introduced as evidence against him. But unless a prosecutor can prove a prejudicial motivation beyond a reasonable doubt, no conviction for a hate crime will result.
In order to morph a run-of-the-mill assault – an act intended to cause an apprehension of harmful or offensive contact, and which causes apprehension in the victim that harmful or offensive contact is imminent — into a hate crime, a prosecutor must prove that the accused’s undisclosed intent was based upon prejudice.
So, not only does a prosecutor have to get inside the accused’s mind to prove intent, the prosecutor must then go one layer deeper into the accused’s mind to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that bias or prejudice formed the foundation for that intent.
If you’re confused, you should be. A hate crime is, essentially, the Inception of crimes — a crime within a crime.
With that in mind, I give you a brief rant:
(Click here for ranty goodness)
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Tagged Angry Black Lady, Arizona, GOP War on Women, hate crimes, Jan Brewer, lady stuff, Planned Parenthood, racism, Republicans are asshats, spite babies, Teabillies, women's health, women's rights
