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Amendment 62 
Thu Feb 09, 2012 at 09:35:18 AM MST
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Pro-zygote, anti-woman bills are being presented all across the nation, in an effort to awaken the evangelical Republican base before the election of 2012. Most of these bills have been written by, or championed via Personhood USA.
In Oklahoma, our not-so-distant neighbor, Senate Bill 1433 states a fetus "at every stage of development (has) all the rights, privileges, and immunities available to other persons, citizens, and residents of this state." If Senate Bill 1433 becomes a law, all forms of abortion and various forms of contraception could potentially be considered murder, and therefore illegal.
Democratic State Senator Constance Johnson, attempting to make a point, attached
an amendment to the Oklahoma bill that would ban the spilling of semen in any location other than a woman's vagina. Unfortunately, Senator Johnson then withdrew her amendment, which would have made masturbation illegal.
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Thu May 27, 2010 at 17:43:11 PM MST
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Can I just say it? Catholic hospitals are scary and policies based on Catholic directives threaten women's lives.
From the NYT: A woman with a life threatening pregnancy walks into a Catholic hospital in Phoenix. A committee agrees to save the woman's life by terminating the pregnancy. A nun on the committee gets excommunicated and has "resigned at the bishop's request."
Why?
Because "The mother's life cannot be preferred over the child's," the bishop's communication office elaborated in a statement.
Why does this matter to Coloradans? After all, it took place in a hospital in Phoenix.
1) Catholic hospitals are merging with secular hospitals. (What is the status of the Colorado Sisters of Mercy merger? I lost track of it.) Archbishop Chaput, Bless his Heart, seems to be on team Phoenix.
2) People try to claim that abortion bans, like Amendment 62 -- Eggmendment Redux-- don't need exceptions for the life of the mother. Yeah, they do. We can't assume that every hospital, lawyer, or doctor will assume that "of course" you save the woman's life -- when good nuns are sent to hell for voting with a committee to save a woman's life.
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Wed May 05, 2010 at 22:17:34 PM MST
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Umbert the Unborn and his Pre-Natal Pals  has just come to my attention, probably because I don't have a subscription to the National Catholic Register or one of the other 100 publications in which it appears.
In case you are facing a life-changing unintended pregnancy, I thought you should know about this pun-making, fun-loving fetus.
 Oh, on the other side of the divide? Struggling to start a family? There is help for you, too. Fredo the Frozen is here to help.
Living on a tiny ice floe in a fertility lab, Fredo the frozen embryo ponders an uncertain future, questions the boundaries of modern science, and dreams of hot chocolate and the warmth of a mother's womb.
I know. I need to take it seriously. After all, fertilized eggs are out there dreaming of hot chocolate -- and they need constitutional rights, too.
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