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Mon Dec 21
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12/20/09
gah, fuck this 60 votes business - remind me why we need filibusters again?
12/19/09
Also....what about that mandate?
I read about shit like this and feel stupid for voting Democratic at all, like I missed something huge during the campaigns, something, anything, and then I wonder if would matter either way.
12/19/09
12/19/09
At least this is slightly better than Stupak (who, by the way, is currently working with Republicans to oppose even this compromise).
By the way, guys, isn't the response to this not to give up on voting for Democrats, but to vote in, you know, better Democrats? Or whatever Democrats can get elected?
If we sit out and Republicans take over, that doesn't help us. It sends a message, sure, but at a huge, huge cost. We can make this shit better. Really. If we stop believing that, then whatever's left of democracy in this country has no hope but to fail.
12/19/09
I was a poli sci major, I've volunteered on tons of campaigns, I've gotten involved politically on as many levels as I can, until last week I was going door to door canvassing for health care reform, and always call and email my representatives about important legislation. Now though? I just feel so useless and pointless. Who cares what I can do to help this process out when ONE MAN can fuck this up for everyone.
It is so fucking trivially partisan now with no one actually seeming to care about the American people. Just line up all the senators one by one and let me punch them in the face. I'll start with Lieberman, move on to Nelson, go to Reid, sucker-punch Lieberman again, then move on down the line.
12/19/09
I hate when penes think they can make decisions which, ultimately, only affect uteri
* my period button is broken, apologies on lack of punctuation
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12/19/09
I mean they are basically telling me we are tossing out a women's rights for something we shouldn't want anyways. If you are going to screw over 50+ of the population (and considering it impacts men too not that they would admit that, even more) they could at least be pushing something through that was so spectacular that it didn't feel like a swift kick to the crotch followed by a push down the stairs.
12/19/09
12/19/09
We cannot not take it because they say it will help poor people. Nearly all my friends are poor and live below the poverty line. They don't want this fucking bill. They hate this bill. Even with government help they will not have enough money to pay for this 'health care'.
It's a monstrous bill with very few good point and we cannot let it pass. Call, Fight, Protest. Because this is one we cannot let go.
12/19/09
right now, passing this bill would be akin to building a high rise apartment on a cracked, shoddy foundation poured on top of a sink hole
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(Yeah, I know the term was declared passe' here a while back. I think we need to keep it for emergencies, and Mr. Nelson just made me break the glass to whip it out.)
12/19/09
It's not passe in dire circumstances. You have used it well.
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12/18/09
It's just basically a "justify your reproductive decisions' survey. Which gets a big old fuck you from me.
Especially no man has ever been asked to prove that he'll only use his sperm for "good" things.
12/18/09
Because I've got two awesome (mostly planned) kids, and a stable marriage, and I tell you what -- I was not at all prepared for how much a child would change my life and interefere with my job.
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12/18/09
Who wants to bet that names and identifying characteristics of the questionnaire completers is "accidentally" leaked and made public as well? The only thing about this that makes me remotely pleased is that if it passes there will no doubt be a massive class action lawsuit and the offending parties will have to pay out the wazoo.
12/18/09
12/18/09
So I am less concerned with the possibility of doctors releasing it than I am about that happening via whatever government entity is entrusted with collating and publishing the PHI. Since this entire measure seems little more than a thinly veiled attempt to legislate morality and slut-shame every abortion-seeker in the state.
You do raise a good point, though. I wonder what the AMA would do if this were passed?
12/18/09
I guess it would depend on how the government would go about administering this survey, but it seems to me that they would either have to have a government employee at every practice at all times to administer the survey, because otherwise someone within the medical practice would have to do so.
Since the state wants to make it necessary for a procedure, could a doctor argue that it's part of the procedure, and they're then bound by confidentiality laws?
This just seems to go against everything I've read in medical ethics textbooks (granted that university class was years ago), that it seems to me that this won't actually end up happening. I think it must just be political posturing, because it seems impossible to put into practice.
12/18/09