Obviously this man is a skilled politician, able to sniff out a dollar
from across the Aisle. And of course you are quite right. The
differences between the Two Heads of the One Monster Party are blurred
and only change with the number of dollars piled on top.
On 8/7/17, Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
James Justice was a Republican right up until late 2015 when he switched
just before he announced that he was running for governor as a Democrat.
His switch back now comes less than two years after registering as a
Democrat. Obviously he switches whenever it is opportune for him. Not
only does it confirm to me that the difference between the two is pretty
much nonexistent, but it confirms to me that these politicians don't see
a difference either. I don't expect that this will mean any changes in
his positions on any issues. If there are any I expect that will only
reflect his opportunism too.
On 8/7/2017 1:31 PM, Carl Jarvis wrote:
No one ever said you had to have a working brain in order to look like
a grownup.
By the way, I've seen nothing on this list about the slimy governor of
West Virginia. I'm sure he was a lover of Big Money, long before he
was wooed into the Republican den, but as a regular run of the mill
voter, I would be spitting fire and blowing steam from my ears if I
had believed any of his democratic platitudes, and then had him turn
on me. But forget trying to recall him. Voters who were taken in by
his babbling don't really care what party he hangs his hat on. I keep
reminding myself that my own mother-in-law voted for John McCain
because she liked the way he looked.
For me, this is as close to concrete proof that there is no Great Wise
Father Figure leading us.
Carl Jarvis
On 8/7/17, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://themilitant.com/2017/8130/813005.html
The Militant (logo)
Vol. 81/No. 30 August 14, 2017
(front page)
Texas gov’t launches new attacks on womens’ right
to abortion
Nathan Lambrecht/The Monitor
Defenders of abortion rights face opponent of right to choose, holding
rosary at clinic in McAllen, Texas, Jan. 21, 2017. Texas governor signed
new anti-abortion law June 6.
BY LEA SHERMAN
Texas lawmakers have launched a new round of attacks on women’s rights,
passing a number of anti-abortion bills to deny women the right to
choose or have access to abortion.
On June 6 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott enthusiastically signed a law banning
all abortions performed by dilation and evacuation, the safest and most
common method of second trimester abortion. The law, which goes into
effect Sept. 1, also prevents women from donating fetal remains for
scientific research and requires all abortion clinics to dispose of any
fetal remains by paying for a burial or cremation.
Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a
lawsuit July 20 seeking to block provisions of the law. Seven other
state legislatures have passed similar restrictions.
“The law we challenged today in Texas is part of a nationwide scheme to
undermine these constitutional rights and ban abortion one restriction
at a time,” Nancy Northrup, president of the Center for Reproductive
Rights, told the press.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, legislators in six states this
year introduced “measures to ban all abortions, and in 28 states to ban
abortions under some circumstances.” Major restrictions have been
adopted in 11 states.
Abbott called a special session of the legislature that began July 18 to
adopt more laws to prevent women from ending an unwanted pregnancy. The
Senate has approved two bills now heading to the House. One bans
insurance plans from covering abortions and the other prevents any
government funds from going to affiliates of abortion providers that do
not offer the procedure.
“They want to close down the Planned Parenthood in Austin that does not
perform abortions,” Lexie Cooper, president of the Austin chapter of the
National Organization for Women, told the Militant Aug. 1.
This facility provides other services, including birth control as well
as cancer and HIV screening. Shutting down Planned Parenthood “hurts the
most vulnerable, low-income women,” Cooper said. At the same time,
“there’s been an explosion of so-called crisis pregnancy centers. They
get government funds, tax dollars, but their aim is to prevent women
from getting an abortion. They give false information like abortions
cause cancer.”
A number of previous Texas government attacks on women’s access to
abortion have been reversed. In June 2016, after a three-year legal
battle, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Texas law requiring any
doctor who performs abortions to have admitting privileges at a local
hospital and demanding abortion clinics meet hospital-like standards.
This was a victory, but over half the 40 clinics in Texas closed in the
meantime. Only four have reopened.
By 2014 no clinics provided abortions in 96 percent of Texas counties.
This situation falls particularly hard on women from the working class
and from families on farms and in rural towns.
A new 2017 Pew Research poll found that 57 percent of all adults, as
high as it has been in two decades, support legal abortion in all or
most cases.
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