Yet another example of why “pro-life” politicans aren’t pro-life at all February 25, 2009
Posted by Evil Bender in Morality, reproductive rights, wingnuts.trackback
Democrats were outraged Wednesday morning when Republican state Sen. Dave Schultheis said he planned to vote against a bill to require HIV tests for pregnant women because the disease “stems from sexual promiscuity” and he didn’t think the Legislature should “remove the negative consequences that take place from poor behavior and unacceptable behavior.” The Colorado Springs lawmaker then proceeded to cast the lone vote against SB-179, which passed 32-1 and moves on to the House.
It’s nice that Schultheis is eager to punish a fetus for promiscuity, and since he’s all “pro-life” he’ll no doubt be happy to tell the baby with HIV that they deserve it because mom was a slut.
I really don’t like to wish harm on others, but, seriously, where’s a case of crippling penis rot when you need one?
[Unrelated: real life is very busy around here these days. Expect things to pick back up again after the next couple of weeks, assuming I survive them with some of my sanity intact.]
Once again it is stunningly obvious that a great many on the pro-life side want to punish women for having sex.
I heard something interesting on NPR this AM that went along these lines. It was story about Georgia repealing their sunday blue laws and some ass backwards Republican ACTUALLY said : Sometimes the government should act when it’s within the best interest of the public good..
Uhhhh…Okay. So, if it’s within the best interest of the people for the government to fund public works programs and upgrade infrastructure, that’s BAD–but if it’s to stop people from buying booze on a sunday—it’s good?
Their logic really fucks my shit up…
Exactly the wingnut position: government spending on the public good is a bad thing; government intervention in private lives is meritorious.