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    ZabellaAnna Merlan
    5/20/16 5:21pm

    Fallin, an anti-abortion Republican, vetoed the bill today because she didn’t believe it could withstand an (inevitable) legal challenge,

    Wow, a Republican who recognizes a GOP caused waste of taxpayer dollars? How long until she’s kicked out of the party?

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      three08, dog fancierZabella
      5/20/16 5:23pm

      negative five minutes

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      TheBoysBadNewsZabella
      5/20/16 5:24pm

      You’re reading way less cynically in to this than me. You hear “save taxpayer dollars.” I hear “try again and do better this time so it maybe CAN withstand a legal challenge.”

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    CaliforlifeAnna Merlan
    5/20/16 5:18pm

    Raised by a woman. Went to school and was taught by women. Went to college and probably had *relations with women. Actually met a woman and married her. Gets elected iwth women voting for him, and now does his best to make sure he controls all women’s bodies in his state. Must be so wonderful to be... what he thinks is a man.

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      m4nt3Califorlife
      5/20/16 5:24pm

      Consider the even more repugnant alternative, if he’s not completely broken in critical thinking: He’s willing to pass legislation stripping people’s bodily autonomy in order to win votes.

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      Kim Jong's AngstCaliforlife
      5/20/16 5:25pm

      His official bio on the OK legislature website explains a lot.

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    BrightEyesAnna Merlan
    5/20/16 5:20pm

    You know what scares the shit out of me? That 33 GOP assholes thought their time was best served putting forth a bill that would never hold up.

    The party of “less government” strikes again, and again and again. Do these people even know what that is at this point?

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      SessileRaptorBrightEyes
      5/20/16 5:29pm

      The point isn’t to succeed, it’s to fail and say “We tried to protect the children but the evil liberals are so determined to kill them all, oh if only we had more money and could keep being reelected.”

      Don’t get me wrong, there’s been a fuckton of damage done on the state and local level, but that’s been done by true believers, the grift for the bulk of the party has always been to keep abortion around to use as an issue to keep their core voters coming back to the polls year after year.

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      BrightEyesSessileRaptor
      5/20/16 5:33pm

      “The grift for the bulk of the party has always been to keep abortion around to use as an issue to keep their core voters coming back to the polls year after year”.

      You just summed up the entire Republican platform in the past 15 years. Of course the GOP couches it a bit differently.

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    Adrastra, patron saint of snarkAnna Merlan
    5/20/16 5:18pm

    This is not how I was expecting this story to end.

    GIF
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      BellucaAdrastra, patron saint of snark
      5/20/16 5:24pm

      I doubt this is the end, but it’s a better cliffhanger than I’d have expected

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      three08, dog fancierAdrastra, patron saint of snark
      5/20/16 5:28pm

      a lot is up in the air right now, thanks to mcconnell and his cronies. a lot of people would expect this kind of a challenge to roe v wade to go 5-3 right now, unless kennedy suddenly decided he didn’t care about scotus precedent anymore, so fundamentalists who expect trump to win will try to advance these sort of bills and hope that by the time they hit scotus we’ll have lost one or two members for him to replace, while those who expect or at least fear another clinton white house can be expected to take more of a wait-and-see approach, a la ms. fallin.

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    Apricot Poodle Riding Eeyore Across a RainbowAnna Merlan
    5/20/16 5:17pm

    Always nice to hear a senator state his choice to take away rights from his constituents.

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      I'm Fart and I'm SmunnyApricot Poodle Riding Eeyore Across a Rainbow
      5/20/16 5:24pm

      Per suggestion from a great commenter here on Jez, I donated to PP in his honor yesterday so they will be sending a postcard to his office to honor him for the donation. I suggest anyone does the same if they happen to be donating to PP!

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      anyah8sbunniesI'm Fart and I'm Smunny
      5/20/16 5:28pm

      That’s fantastic!

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    WhiskeyprayerAnna Merlan
    5/20/16 5:22pm

    Oh for fucks sake, can’t they ever just leave women’s rights al.......wait. Ok, this is weird. I don’t know how to react when Republicans don’t fuck human rights up...........

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      Kamai - Looming and InevitableWhiskeyprayer
      5/20/16 5:34pm

      Don’t worry, they’re only not fucking them up on a technicality. I'm sure they'll try again soon.

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      WhiskeyprayerKamai - Looming and Inevitable
      5/20/16 5:56pm


      Ok, but how does that explain the horsemen?

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    cvrodAnna Merlan
    5/20/16 5:57pm

    Jesus. When you read this moron, Nathan Dahm’s, bio you realize how he could be against abortion. First, his parents were those “devout Christians” who go on missions to 2nd world/3rd world countries to try to get them to convert. Secondly, he was home schooled, and proudly claims that he graduated from home schooling. Thirdly, I see no where that this guy is married. With all three of these things, this tells me that this guy has never had sexual relations with anything other than his own hand. So, clearly, he is the best to provide advice to a woman about her own body. I mean he has never actually seen a nude woman, and wouldn’t know what a fallopian tube is if it slapped him in the face, but we should definitely be listening to this guy about his opinions on abortion.

    Why is it that men, mostly men who wouldn’t have a snowballs chance in hell of getting laid, always have the strongest opinions on abortion and woman’s reproductive rights? Is it some psychological issue? Where they struggle with not being able to have sex with a woman, so they want to hurt all woman!?

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      dark swan queencvrod
      5/21/16 12:08am

      I wish I had a spare fallopian tube lying around to smack him in the face with.

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      No1CurrAboutYourBonercvrod
      5/21/16 3:04am
      GIF

      Lafayette said it best.

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    crankylittlephotonAnna Merlan
    5/20/16 5:31pm

    “Since I believe life begins at conception, it should be protected, and I believe it’s a core function of state government to defend that life from the beginning of conception.”

    I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that this is not at all a core function of state government. These fuckers know less about basic civics than my youngest child.

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      VeggieTartcrankylittlephoton
      5/20/16 7:34pm

      If she’s so worried about protecting life, perhaps she should do something about people adversely affected by fracking and how her state is near the bottom in all health statistics.

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      MarlonRandoVeggieTart
      5/21/16 10:13pm

      Or talk to her lawyer about that grand jury report that came out this week implicating her office’s shenanigans resulting in botched executions... But then that’s the life of born, adult people. Not precious embryos.

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    BeagghaAnna Merlan
    5/20/16 5:44pm

    Ok, serious question that I never see addressed in abortion ‘discussions’.

    Lets assume life begins at conception, just for argument. And further, lets assume such life gets all the protections of a citizen.

    If I, a citizen, need a blood transfusion, a very low-risk procedure, to live, there is no legal requirement for someone to donate blood to keep me alive.

    If a child in utero needs to be carried to term and birthed, a high risk process compared to a blood donation, we are going to force someone to provide such?

    Where does a human right to life include imposition on the body of another?

    It is the ugliest of arguments, but I can see no justification for forced pregnancy that would not also bring forced blood donation, organ donation and the like into debate. Is that where these ‘pro life’ people want to take this?

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      AntisocialJusticeWarrior is not Anti-SJWBeaggha
      5/20/16 5:52pm

      Yes, but thinking about the implications like that requires logic that these people and the constituents that support them don’t possess.

      I tried making that point to some pro-forced birthers awhile ago. They couldn’t counter it with anything except for shouting “ABORTION IS A SIN!!!!!”

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      MyOceanBeaggha
      5/20/16 6:51pm

      The usual answer is something along the lines of, “BUT IT’S A BABBYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!1!!!1!!!!!” which apparently overrides the rights to bodily autonomy for whomever is carrying a fetus inside of them.


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    Ms.ChanandlerBongAnna Merlan
    5/20/16 5:24pm

    I had to read that headline like 3 times because I was sure I was reading it wrong. Also, it’s Friday and I drank at lunch like usual so that might have also contributed to that.

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      lilmisscanadaMs.ChanandlerBong
      5/21/16 12:33am

      Oddly, I'm right there with you on literally all of these things. Also I had wine and bread and butter for dinner. So there's that,too.

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