As I mentioned in yesterday’s Open Thread, Bart ‘Coat Hanger’ Stupak is at it again, trying to hold heath care for millions of Americans hostage to destroy women’s right of choice over their own bodies. Here Rachel Maddow further exposes Stupak’s connection with C Street, Washington’s theocratic bastion, infamous for sex scandals and attempting it to impose the death penalty in Africa for the crime of being gay.
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In the interest of disclosure, I admit that I personally believe abortion is wrong. However, I also believe that in some circumstances there are no right choices available, and of those that are, abortion may be the least wrong. I also believe that I do not have the right or prerogative to impose my belief on anyone other than myself. Therefore, I have no right to tell a woman what medical choice she should make, let alone try to impose it through legal means. Neither does Stupak. Women must remain free to make this choice for them selves, in consultation with their doctors, according to their own consciences and beliefs, with no interference from me, Stupak, or anyone else. I want Abortion to be safe, legal, available, and as rare as reasonably possible. The best way to achieve that is through education about and availability of other methods to prevent pregnancy.
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This guy is no Michigan Democrat seeing as he comes from the republican side of the state. He is a whore, has been a whore and always will be a whore. Money sucking scum who will sell his soul for a buck and some cheap rent for his bodega.
Mark, you certainly know more about the lay of the land in Michigan than I. Could a progressive, or even a true centrist, challenge him?
I liked when Rachel said “I keep thinking I’m done talking about C Street.” The gift that keeps on giving. That group The Family (aka The Fellowship) goes back at least to the 1930s. It sprang from a secretive, very calculated, effort to unify Big Business, Nazis and other racist groups, behind a smokescreen of Christianity. Every rightwing “Christian” demagogue probably sprang from this wacky coalition of 80 years ago.
I hope Stupak’s 15 minutes of fame are over soon.
So do I Tom. That sounds like the kind of organization that would have appealed to Prescott Bush. The family has deep racist roots.
I hope that Bart Stupid’s 15 minutes are over soon and he is exposed as “C” Street member (with more research on what the hell this group actually does) and as the hypocrite that he is. That being said, and being a woman myself, TC’s comment reflects my own opinion “Abortion to be safe, legal, available, and as rare as reasonably possible.” Having been through the procedure myself twice, I can tell you that it is heart wrenching things that a woman can ever go through. It is not an easy choice (for most of us), but when you have a 7 month old in your lap, told that you are pregnant once again and single, you have to consider your options. (These were both by the same man, btw.)
That being said, more sex education is needed. I’ve had conversations with my boys (15 and12) about sex ( which couldn’t be more uncomfortable if I tried; yes that is the one thing I cannot talk about – it embarasses me – yeah, who woulda thunk that?). Otis helps me out. I just had a conversation the other day with my 12yo about masturbation, It was horrible. I can only describe things in clinical terms – even that is hard for me. That’s what happens to you when your boyfriend has to explain it to you rather than sex ed or God forbid, your parents.
All that being said, I hope Bart Stupid gets caught with a hooker, or better yet, a gay hooker. What sweet revenge that would be.
Lisa, I’m so sorry you had to suffer through that. You illustrate what I meant, when I said that sometimes there are no right choices available. Even better, I hope Stupak gets a gay hooker pregnant.
Not really