Hoo boy.
I am not looking forward to how the forced-birth crowd spins that story.
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Hope they have really good security.
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I will refer you to this post from earlier:
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How long before the forced-birth folks take this seriously?
Answer: 1 nanosecond.
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I’m speechless. How does this thought moved through his brain and out his mouth??
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Peristalsis.
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Simple. We aren’t actual people… /s
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Of particular interest is how this judge takes on the concept of “standing”, recognizing that it’s an issue that will go before the Supreme Court soon:
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Missouri’s state health director admitted to keeping track of the Planned Parenthood patients’ menstrual periods.
The Kansas City Star reports that the health director, one Dr. Randall Williams, testified on Tuesday that he maintained a spreadsheet tracking visitors’ periods, allegedly to help “identify patients who had undergone failed abortions.” The spreadsheet also included “medical identification numbers, dates of medical procedures and the gestational ages of fetuses,” according to the report. The spreadsheet was also sent by email as an attachment between health department employees.
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Sure. HIPPA. Who needs it?
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What’s his doctorate in, English Literature?
'Cos I’ve got a BA Hon in English Literature, and even I know women’s periods can be erratic, even out of the blue. That’s not counting all the “periods” caused by, say, assault injuries or an ovarian cyst, or cancer. Or a spontaneous abortion aka miscarriage prior to a pregnancy being known. You know, when 80% of all miscarriages happen.
So on top of the HIPAA thing, all that work on the spreadsheet isn’t proving what he thinks it’s proving. It makes him the creepy boyfriend to women he’s never met.
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That assumes he really thinks it proves it rather than just being a hunt for an excuse. He’s using that data to claim problems with four abortions, and using those four (out of 3,000 performed) as a reason to shut down Planned Parenthood.
And then there’s this from the Governor’s spokesman and campaign manager:
The deposition, obtained by the Post-Dispatch through a Sunshine Law request, also focuses on a conference call Shippy held with state lawmakers and abortion opponents that was aimed at garnering support to close the clinic.
Hatfield asked, “Was it your main goal to shut down Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Services?”
“As a member of the pro-life community, I, yeah. I believe that shutting down Planned Parenthood is, you know, a good thing to protect the health and safety of women,” Shippy said.
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The first thing I did when I woke up the morning after the election was sign on to an automatic monthly donation to the ACLU, which I’ve kept up on.
I now actually carry the card in my wallet, even, so I can say I’m a card-carrying member. I stand with those who want to save the country, not tear it down just because they’re pissy about everyone else getting ‘their’ rights now too.
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