GOP Bill Would Force IRS to Conduct Abortion Audits

[The Good Reverend Roger]

That's it.

I am living in a RAW novel.

TGRR,
Not fooled anymore.

Well, now we know the ending will suck....

I'll take trippy acid laden nonsense over where this looks to be headed any day.

Not me.  The first motherfucker that comes up to me talking like James Joyce is going to limp away with a rupture.

[Cain]

In other abortion news, I'd like to point out a fetus has been called by Ohio Republicans as a legislative witness on a bill hearing which may outlaw abortions.

Yes, apparently they're serious.

And yes, The Onion did in fact write this as satire several years before, once again proving they are America's best source for tomorrow's news, and the GOP is waging war on satire.

[Igor]

In other abortion news, I'd like to point out a fetus has been called by Ohio Republicans as a legislative witness on a bill hearing which may outlaw abortions.

Even more hilariously, the fetus' testimony was supposed to be it's heartbeat.

Which, at the hearing, was undetectable at 9 weeks:

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/porters-fetus-stunt-falls-flat

[Cain]

Oh, now that is glorious.  It's like a perfect storm of retarded culture war posturing and fail.

[Freeky]

 

[Phox]

Oh, now that is glorious.  It's like a perfect storm of retarded culture war posturing and fail.

[Telarus]

 

[LMNO]

That's it.

I am living in a RAW novel.

TGRR,
Not fooled anymore.

Well, now we know the ending will suck....

Also,

Oh, now that is glorious.  It's like a perfect storm of retarded culture war posturing and fail.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It's really important to REDUCE GOVERNMENT SPENDING, except at points where it oversees personal freedoms.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

BTW my favorite part of "Freakonomics" is where the economist explains the correlation and probable causation between legal abortion and reduced crime. I am completely on board with that, and I also think that we could save a fuckton of tax money with Federal funding of birth control and abortion, making them free and anonymous.

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

BTW my favorite part of "Freakonomics" is where the economist explains the correlation and probable causation between legal abortion and reduced crime. I am completely on board with that, and I also think that we could save a fuckton of tax money with Federal funding of birth control and abortion, making them free and anonymous.

He also states that the same effect could be made by insuring that more children had loving and well off families(Of course this would involve lots of good christian tax dollars going to help smudgy people so its out of the question). He also states "If hats dont fit the solution isnt necessarily to go around cutting off heads."

/devils advocate

[Luna]

Given that we don't know what to do with the approximately half a million children in foster care, the US seems to be doing a shit job at finding loving families.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

In other abortion news, I'd like to point out a fetus has been called by Ohio Republicans as a legislative witness on a bill hearing which may outlaw abortions.

Even more hilariously, the fetus' testimony was supposed to be it's heartbeat.

Which, at the hearing, was undetectable at 9 weeks:

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/porters-fetus-stunt-falls-flat

I don't even want to admit to being in the same state, let alone the same city as these idiots.

[Faust]

This actually made me feel sick, I mean we get a lot of gross exploitation threads coming and going though here and normally I can shrug it off like rain off a ducks back but this turned my stomach.

[AFK]

BTW my favorite part of "Freakonomics" is where the economist explains the correlation and probable causation between legal abortion and reduced crime. I am completely on board with that, and I also think that we could save a fuckton of tax money with Federal funding of birth control and abortion, making them free and anonymous.

He also states that the same effect could be made by insuring that more children had loving and well off families(Of course this would involve lots of good christian tax dollars going to help smudgy people so its out of the question). He also states "If hats dont fit the solution isnt necessarily to go around cutting off heads."

/devils advocate

Well I think it is pretty clear when you look at socio-economics, poorer people tend to have more abortions than the upper classes.  If you were to raise the fortunes of poor families, I think that itself would put downward pressure on abortion rates.  Not only because people who are in a more comfortable situation would be more likely to see a pregnancy through.  But also, people who are more stable also tend to make different kinds of decisions when it comes to their health, including reproductive health. 

That's what is so infuriating about the majority of those in the pro-life movement.  I think there can be agreement that it would be good for a society if abortion rates were lower.  But that simply cannot be achieved through moralizing.  It isn't a moral issue.  It is really more of a public health issue and an economic issue.  A two-pronged approach of raising the prospects of the poor, and thoughtful, researched sex-ed programs, I think, could go along way to reducing abortion rates.