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[40cakes]

Feministe had this video posted today about the proposed South Dakota abortion ban. If you don't know, South Dakota is proposing a ban on abortion that would have no exceptions for health of the mother, rape, or incest.

But maybe voices of dissent have softened Bill Napoli, State Senator (R). He's a strong proponent of the complete and utter ban, but now seems to think there are situations where there might be exceptions (take the video to about 3:15 to kick it off right good).

Watch on YouTube

I don't usually like to be the one who instantly jumps on the "You are what you fear" bandwagon - homophobes are really closeted, etc. - but check out how many times he says "brutally raped", and how this good holy virgin girl must be "sodomized as bad as you can possibly make it." I get the sense that young Billy had a lot of little fantasies about taking down one of the choir girls ifyaknowwhatimean. He's put entirely too much thought into how this girl has been raped to be allowed abortion. Oh, and if she wasn't a virgin planning on saving herself, she must be a slut who deserves it, and now should be saddled with a baby. Awesome.

Comments

[pyrobovaphiliac.livejournal.com]

I like how he tried to exalt shotgun weddings, as if they were a cultural tradition. Or even positive in any way.

When I watch stuff like this and I see ignorant people using Christ as a scapegoat for cruelty, it makes me want to drive down to one of those clinic pickets and kill their stupid pretend christian god. I mean, I'm glad I don't live near psychopaths like that, but it would be fun to hunt them.

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

Shotgun weddings are positive if you're afraid of women being equal with you and you want to keep them pregnant, poor, and depressed rather than open to kicking your ass. I was about to say that I don't think shotguns happen anymore, but then I realized I'm in NYC, and not, say, Montana. Or Arkansas.

[flyinglobster.livejournal.com]

And hey, those shotgun weddings Napoli so fondly remembers certainly have nothing to do with the 40-plus-percent divorce rate for his generation. Nope.

[pyrobovaphiliac.livejournal.com]

Speaking of yokels, candidate for Georgia Governor Mark Taylor is running an ad that equates video game content with pornography and repeat child molesters. Even the Georgians hate this douche.

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

Remember when we had this little discussion about politics, and I said that I'm sure many of my beliefs are actually Republican, since I want smaller government interfering in personal lives, but the current regime equates that party with fundamentalist Christianity which is pretty much the definition of big government?

Because I had a moment of surprise when that link said he was the Democratic candidate. And then I remembered, "Oh, right. Hilary and Lieberman and Tipper. Riiiiight."

[pyrobovaphiliac.livejournal.com]

Ye-ap, now we have one party of zealots and one of anti-libertarians. Makes you want to support kalashnikov politics.

[bzial.livejournal.com]

The fact that he has worked out such an exacting scenario really really disturbs me.