[Newsbot]

Title: GOP Bill Would Force IRS to Conduct Abortion Audits
Category: Political
Posted By: DerbyX
Date: 2011-03-18 13:36:05

[andyt]

du du du du, du du du du

[Dayseed]

Dat dere is one messed up law. Good luck American women!

[DerbyX]

Bills to prosecute women who have a miscarriage and provide a legal excuse for murders to kill anybody connected to abortion and now this. I can see self-righteous anti-choice advocates cheering over this ...

So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause.

[Dayseed]

Well said Padme, well said.

[DerbyX]

Dayseed Dayseed:

Well said Padme, well said.

If I said "Thanks Anakin" would that be too homoerotic?

[Thanos]

All this does is help to ensure that the TeaBircher/theocrat interregnum in the United States is going to be mericifully brief and infinitely forgettable. They've already stirred up the union and worker constituencies with their bullshit antics at the state level and now they've ensured that the women are going to be out in the streets en masse for the next two years. I can't see anyway now how the group of demographic constituencies that have always formed the bulk of the support for the Democrats can sit at home not participating in the 2012 election the way they shamefully did, and consequently defaulted the playing field to the TeaBirchers, during the 2010 campaign. Less than four months of TeaBircher rule and over a hundred years of economic and social progress in the United States is in danger of being exterminated. If moderates and liberals don't show up to vote in 2012 and put a stop to this half-baked fundie idiocy then maybe they just don't deserve to survive in American politics anymore. Just hand the whole country over to the bastards at that moment and get it all over with already.

[Dayseed]

DerbyX DerbyX:

Dayseed Dayseed:

Well said Padme, well said.

If I said "Thanks Anakin" would that be too homoerotic?

No, but you would kill any acting career aspirations I may hold!

[GreenTiger]

To paraphrase Thanos: The only good thing about this legislation being brought to the light of day to to show the American People the kind of lunatic fringe we have elected to the House of Representatives.

This law is the most moronic thing I've heard talked about in Washington and given these days thats a lot.

The Current House Speaker is more interested in enjoying the perks of his office that doing his job. He's more often found at the golf course and on Congressional Junkets raising money for his own nut projects.

This kind of legislation doesn't demonstrate Conservative government, it demonstrates the intellectual misfits we elected to Congress.

[DerbyX]

GreenTiger GreenTiger:

To paraphrase Thanos: The only good thing about this legislation being brought to the light of day to to show the American People the kind of lunatic fringe we have elected to the House of Representatives.

This law is the most moronic thing I've heard talked about in Washington and given these days thats a lot.

The Current House Speaker is more interested in enjoying the perks of his office that doing his job. He's more often found at the golf course and on Congressional Junkets raising money for his own nut projects.

This kind of legislation doesn't demonstrate Conservative government, it demonstrates the intellectual misfits we elected to Congress.

The problem is that this "lunatic fringe" (great song btw) seems to be growing. abortion murder bills in 4 states, this bill, Texas forcing pregnant women to view sonograms/hear heartbeats/name the fetus before any abortion can take place.

This is the kind of shit that plenty of Germans said back in the 1930s .... They are lunatics, they will never take power.

Seems to me that THEY are taking power bit by bit.

[GreenTiger]

DerbyX DerbyX:

GreenTiger GreenTiger:

To paraphrase Thanos: The only good thing about this legislation being brought to the light of day to to show the American People the kind of lunatic fringe we have elected to the House of Representatives.

This law is the most moronic thing I've heard talked about in Washington and given these days thats a lot.

The Current House Speaker is more interested in enjoying the perks of his office that doing his job. He's more often found at the golf course and on Congressional Junkets raising money for his own nut projects.

This kind of legislation doesn't demonstrate Conservative government, it demonstrates the intellectual misfits we elected to Congress.

The problem is that this "lunatic fringe" (great song btw) seems to be growing. abortion murder bills in 4 states, this bill, Texas forcing pregnant women to view sonograms/hear heartbeats/name the fetus before any abortion can take place.

This is the kind of shit that plenty of Germans said back in the 1930s .... They are lunatics, they will never take power.

Seems to me that THEY are taking power bit by bit.

To our misfortune we do tend to go off the deep end once in a while, but eventually reason kicks in (often kicking and screaming) and we return to the middle of the road democracy that shines, unfortunately these aren't one of those times.

[DerbyX]

GreenTiger GreenTiger:

To our misfortune we do tend to go off the deep end once in a while, but eventually reason kicks in (often kicking and screaming) and we return to the middle of the road democracy that shines, unfortunately these aren't one of those times.

I wish you guys the best of luck then.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Well despite the whacky premise for this law, there is one thing I kind of agree with.

$1:

"The Internal Revenue Service has no business interfering with a woman's right to a safe, legal, constitutionally-protected medical procedure," Thompson tells Mother Jones. "Private health care decisions belong to a woman, her family, and her doctor—not a government auditor."

I agree wholeheartedly with the first half of that statement. However, maybe people shouldn't be expecting everyone else to essentially pay for the service.
If it's not for medical reasons, or it isn't the result of rape of incest, PAY FOR YOUR OWN DAMN MISTAKES!!! Kinda funny when they say it's private decision and yet expect it to be paid for or subsidized with public funds. Get real.

[BartSimpson]

The King's Coin is the principle at play here.

If you want a Federally funded abortion it needs to be accounted for. What's at issue is that Planned Parenthood gets $360 million annualy in direct Federal funding and they rake in another $1.2 billion annually in indirect Federal grants and subsidies and for forty years they've never had to account for how they spend the money.

Now they do.

I will say that the Congress is not asking them to do anything that they are not already required to do by the State of California.

The Healthcare Information Division of the Department of Health and Human Services requires this data in order to ascertain quality of care and mortality rates in hospitals and clinics and Planned Parenthood is not exempt just because they're the darlings of the PC crowd.

[sandorski]

Death Panels!!!

Oh wait, that was what Obama was going to do...