primitives discuss abortions in Washington, D.C.

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014123872

Oh my.

RitchieRich (67 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

D.C. delegate to Congress silenced at hearing

"... Rep. Trent Franks’s district in suburban Phoenix is two time zones away from Washington, a fact not lost on D.C. leaders as the Arizona Republican presided Thursday over the latest in a long series of attempts to control social issues in the nation’s capital.

At issue this time was his bill, with 193 co-sponsors, to ban all abortions in the District beyond 20 weeks, except to save the life of the mother.

Adding insult to injury, from the point of view of local officials, was that Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), the District’s lone, nonvoting member of Congress — sitting in the front row of a subcommittee hearing room — was not allowed to speak.

Presiding over the hearing, Franks, who frequently cites the U.S. Constitution, said Congress has the authority to “exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever” in the District. He also described late-term abortions as “inhumane” and “torturous,” and he called them “the greatest human rights atrocity in the United States today.”

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/2012/05/17/gIQAAcEGXU_story.html

duhneece (1,186 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

1. The Republicans arrogance and disdain for women screams at me

And I want to scream back

Odd, that the Democrats' arrogance and disdain for women screams at franksolich, and franksolich wants to scream back.....but never mind.....

qb (5,698 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

2. The Republicans in Congress are an Abomination

OmahaBlueDog (7,250 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

3. DC citizens pay tax, and get to vote for a non-voting, non-speaking rep

They get no voice at all in the Senate.

"Home Rule" only applies to issues Congress finds too trivial.

The rest of my reaction may be found here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002700378

^^^not to be confused with the big guy; a different primitive from Omaha.

ProfessionalLeftist (2,609 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

4. “the greatest human rights atrocity in the United States today”. . .

. . . is that HALF of its population - women - still don't HAVE any human rights! They have no rights to save their own lives if carrying pregnancy to term would kill them or if it is not a viable fetus or if the 'child' would have no quality of life whatsoever due to deformities and would be an unaffordable financial and emotional expense to the family just to keep it breathing. They have no rights to their own bodies. They have no rights to self-determination or to make any decision about their own health, their own lives or futures and by extension, those of their own families or children either.

THAT is the greatest human rights atrocity in the United States today.

**** YOU Trent Frank. You *******ed American Taliban!

[JohnnyReb]

DUmmies respect women....but hate pregnant women....abortion is the cure.

I think I'll open a store...exclusively for DUmmie wymins....SLUTS-R-US.