Sore Loser McGee

McGee had a press conference yesterday to whine and spit out and out lies about Montana's democrats and the "abortion industry".

"Sen. Dan McGee, R-Laurel, the sponsor of two of the bills, also promised that anti-abortion forces will try to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot in 2010 to define life or a “person” as beginning at conception.“When the people of Montana are able to express themselves — and they will — they will define that a person is a person,” he said at a Capitol news conference."

Um, gee, didn't Montana have that opportunity in 2008 and Jore's egg as a person amendment failed to collect enough signatures to qualify for the ballot. Montana's voice is clear, keep creepy old guy politicians out of our reproductive organs, and for that matter, keep creepy young women politicians out of there too.

'“Last night the Democratic Party essentially voted to muzzle the people of Montana on one of the most important issues of our time: Abortion,” said Rep. Wendy Warburton, R-Havre. "

Dear Wendy, if you think that abortion is one of the most important issues of our time, pick up a newspaper. Read about global warming, the economy, the war in Iraq, hell even teenage deaths due to texting while driving. Count how many articles there are about abortion. Now, tell me again, what is the most important issue of our time.

It is interesting that she uses the term muzzle. When I hear the word muzzle, I think of someone trying to control a mean dog from attacking and biting people or barking. The only voices that are being muzzled are the uber religious right, and yes they are much like barking, biting, rabid dogs. These people are not mainstream Montana. I am sad for the people of Havre, sending this *woman* to represent their welfare and this is the kind of crap they get. But wait, here is the man, Bobby B. Good work Havre.

"House Speaker Bob Bergren, D-Havre, said Tuesday that most Democrats oppose the measures because they support the right to privacy and the rights of women to decide reproductive issues for themselves. . . Bergren also said he found it “hypocritical” that the same lawmakers who want to restrict or block abortion usually vote against sex-education programs and publicly funded contraception, which can prevent unwanted pregnancies.“I’ve worked my whole life to make sure that (abortions) are safe, legal and rare,” he said." Love you Bobby B.

It is a good thing MT's legislature is making it easier to get guns because McGee is declaring civil war on 64% of Montanans (the pro choice majority).

P.S. I found this on LITW, love it!

House Judiciary

Egg as person's house judiciary hearing was yesterday. Crazy crazy crazy anti-choicers lined up to talk about Jesus and SLEDS. I mean, thank goodness the hearings are over.

Prediction, SB406 goes down 9-9. Blast motions fail. Women celebrate, but are also pretty sad because there was 8 major attacks on reproductive freedom this session. EIGHT.

Plus many of them recieved votes in the Senate.

Good News

For anyone who loves good news. SB46, state's compelling interest in my uterus dies in House Judiciary 9-9.

I love you Deb, Arlene, Anders, Robyn, Margret, Edith, Mike, Bob and Diane. Thank you for making us baby vessels safe from government intrusion.

Hate You McGee!

F-ing S-it!

Egg is a person SB406 makes out of the Senate 26 to 24. God DAMN it! Not even the completely ass hat crazy (ala Mike Lang, Rick Jore, Scott Mendenhall) House from 2007 passed it out. Now on to the House Judiciary.

I have heard that douche bag Dan McGee went around to the mixed choice Ds and Rs and CRIED his wee little eyes out begging for the chance to pass his legislation because *sob* it is his last session. This man claims that he speaks for the unborn and is on some personal mission from Christ to ban abortion. And he cries. As Kathy pointed out, if a female legislature would have done the same thing. . . just think of the way she would be talked about or treated.

I seriously want to PUKE when I think that 26 out of 50 think that this is a good idea, much less think that their constituents want them worrying about fertilized eggs, zygotes, embryos and fetuses. Montana is pro-choice. Montana is pro-privacy. Obviously the Montana Senate missed that.

On to other bad news. SB374, Parental Notification passed the Senate 29 to 21 and is on its way to the House Judiciary. F!

SB46, State's compelling interest in the unborn, another McGee doozie passed 28 to 22 and is on its way to House Judiciary. F! F! F!

Gary Perry's sexist insurance law, SB142 also passed out of the Senate. Mother effer.

What does all of this mean, you people of Montana, the ones with a uterus, you are a second class citizen. Hell even your eggs have more rights than you.

What to do now? Start calling, start writing, and stand in line to let the House Judiciary know to keep these laws out of our reproductive organs.

Judiciary
Meets Mondays-Fridays, 8 a.m., Room 137
Stoker, Ron (R) (Chair)
Kottel, Deborah (D) (Vice Chair)
Peterson, Ken (R) (Vice Chair)
Becker, Arlene (D)
Bennett, Gerald (R)
Blewett, Anders (D)
Driscoll, Robyn (D)
Ebinger, Bob (D)
Howard, David (R)
Kerns, Krayton (R)
MacDonald, Margaret (D)
McClafferty, Edith (D)
Menahan, Mike (D)
More, Michael (R)
Regier, Keith (R)
Sands, Diane (D)
Wagner, Bob (R)
Warburton, Wendy (R)

Life Begins At Conception. . .AGAIN!

SB 406 as mentioned eariler, bad idea all around, got its ass kicked in the 2008 elections as CI100, is back. I was able to watch the hearing last night on TV.

Some very creepy proponents showed up. The woman who claimed that Obama could have been aborted was unable to attend, but sent her very overweight and very unshowered middle age son to deliver her message. Boy howdy was he disturbing. He also quoted Susan B. Anthony in trying to make a point that our feminist foremothers were "pro-life". The quote he delivered was basically saying that men are equally responsible for pregnancies as women and that women who are criminalized for ending pregnancies should share their guilt with men, this in a time where abortions were illegal. All in all, completely creepy. There was also the very elderly male doctor who rambled on about tissue harvest from abortions for stem cell research and to top it all off the balding man with the pony tail who held up photos from a hurricane and told the committee that "God is watching."

Ahhh. Anti-choicers say the darndest things.

Anyway, I would have LOVED to testify, but I could not, so I emailed my testimony to the members of the committee. Here it is. Feel free to do the same. I don't think they will take Executive Action for a couple days.

Senate Judiciary.

Senators Perry, Shockley, Curtiss, Esp, Hinkle, McGee, Murphy, Jent, Juneau, Larsen, Laslovich, and Moss:

Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, my name is Connie. I was unable to attend yesterdays hearing on SB 406, but I was able to watch most of the hearing on TV last night.

I hope that you take the time to read my testimony included in this e-mail. Please share this e-mail with the three committee members that do not have e-mail accounts. Thank you.

Within the past year five of my good friends got pregnant, at the current time only two of them will give birth to babies this spring. That means that three of them lost their pregnancies to miscarriage. These women mean more to me than just acquaintances, I love them like they are sisters. The sorrow these women have faced in the wake of losing the pregnancies is indescribable.

It terrifies me that in the wake of passing a constitutional amendment as SB 406 defining life beginning at conception, these women could be investigated or even prosecuted after a miscarriage. During the 2007 Legislature, when former Rep. Jore sponsored the same bill, he stated on the floor of the house that he did, in fact, intend that HB 403, if passed could be used to investigate women in the cause of miscarriages.

Introducing the State into private medical decisions that should be between a woman and her doctor could be very dangerous to mothers and/or babies. Women, in fear of investigation or prosecution, may not report miscarriages or pregnancy complications to their doctors and miss out on critical medical care.

Miscarriages are very common, anywhere from 10-25% of pregnancies will end in miscarriage, 1 in 3 women will miscarry at some time in their lives. There are so many things that can go wrong with a pregnancy, and at those difficult times, women must feel safe to make the decisions that are best for them and their families with their doctor. Politicians like Rick Jore and Senator McGee have no business policing pregnancy. Pregnant women are not criminals.

Additionally I oppose this bill because of it could be used to ban abortion in Montana, which is basic health care for some women, but also because SB 406 has far reaching implications into invitro fertilization and access to certain forms of birth control.

I grew up in Montana, and I know that Montanans value freedom and privacy, and we also value our mothers, sisters, daughters and friends. And we don’t think the government should be making personal private medical decisions for us.

To answer Senator Hinkle’s question about why we would oppose putting this constitutional amendment in front of the voters of Montana, my answer would be this, Rick Jore did put this amendment in front of Montana voters, and it failed to get enough signatures to make it on the ballot, in fact it didn’t even come close. Additionally it failed to pass in the 2007 Legislature, the people who represent the interests of the citizens of Montana. The people of Montana have made it clear that they would not support this constitutional amendment.

I encourage you to reflect on the women in your lives and that you represent that have had miscarriages or difficult pregnancies and vote do not pass on SB 406.

Connie
I live in Helena, MT 59601

Freedom of Choice

Wow, this is a new one. Sen. Balyeat is introducing SJ27 A JOINT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF MONTANA OPPOSING THE FEDERAL FREEDOM OF CHOICE ACT.

Holy sour grapes batman. I guess the MT Legislature is the only republican dominated show in town so they are running at us gangbusters to prove that they are not obsolete. I mean REALLY, Joe?

My least favorite part of SJ27 are the two MASSIVE lies smack dab in the middle.

WHEREAS, the federal Freedom of Choice Act will not make abortion safe or rare, but will instead actively promote and subsidize abortion with state and federal tax dollars and do nothing to ensure its safety; and
WHEREAS, the federal Freedom of Choice Act will silence the voices of everyday Montanans and other Americans who want to engage in a meaningful public discussion and debate over the availability, safety, and even desirability of abortion.

1. By ending the funding of this back and forth fight about the legalities of certain aspects of abortion such as parental notification, constitutionally defining life at conception, constitutionally defining that the state has an interest in the unborn, groups like NARAL Pro-Choice MT and NARAL Pro-Choice America can focus their dollars on proactive solutions to unplanned/unwanted pregnancies such as medically accurate sex education, access to birth control and access to free pre-natal care. And if the sour grapes republicans could get the f over themselves, they could spend their monies there too.

2. I don't think that hog tying and physically gagging the anti-choice community in Montana could silence their voices. AND these anti-choicers are not every day Montanans, they are extremist, right wing, constitutional party members, Jonathan Martin dead baby photo holding nut jobs. Every day Montanans are pro-choice. In all seriously, if these crack pots want to go on and on about adoption over abortion and staff their creepy crisis pregnancy centers, the Freedom of Choice Act will do nothing to stop them.

We are going to listen live this morning. If you miss it live, you can listen to the 2/20/09 Senate Judiciary file here.

We Are Listening

Currently I am listening to Senate Judiciary getting ready to hear SB374 AN ACT REVISING THE PARENTAL NOTICE OF ABORTION ACT BY REVISING THE JUDICIAL BYPASS PROVISION; AND AMENDING SECTION 50-20-212, MCA.

Senator Perry, you no talent assclown.

I will say this again. Teenagers who get abortions will talk to their parents, and if they do not, there is probably a very compelling reason not to, abuse, incest, etc. To have them go in front of a judge or youth court to get a guardian in order for them to have an abortion is re-god damn-diculous! This process is not going to protect the privacy of that minor, and is designed to scare a minor into not seeking medical attention, or other more life threatening methods to deal with the unwanted pregnancy.

Plus, it is unconstitutional. Minors in MT should receive the same privacy rights as adults.

The other terrifying part is that they court may find that the medical treatment that the minor is seeking is not in the best interest of the minor and then may not grant judicial waiver. In other words, small town judge says no no little lady, you are having that baby. What happens then? Scary stuff.

This bill is not at all protective of minors rights.

If Senator Perry really cared about teenagers he would support allowing birth control coverage in CHIP. Probably not though.

Anti-Choicers Say The Darndest Things...

Today I spent darn near all of 3.5 hours listening in on MT Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Dan "I love Rush Limbaugh" McGee's SB46 A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: "AN ACT SUBMITTING TO THE QUALIFIED ELECTORS OF MONTANA AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE II, SECTION 10, OF THE MONTANA CONSTITUTION PROVIDING THAT THE PROTECTION OF UNBORN HUMAN LIFE IS A COMPELLING STATE INTEREST; AND PROVIDING AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE."

Yup you read that right, constitutional amendment stating that the state has a compelling interest in protecting unborn human life.

All of my feelings aside, those anti-choicers lined up like it was free aborted fetus photo day to spill their guts at the capitol.

Some of my favorite quotes - which won't make the news highlight reel - I just need to share. Now these aren't verbatim, but as close as I can remember.

Abortionists target minorities, and given that our president is a minority, he could have been aborted because of his mother's situation.

Montana has a law that it is illegal to kill baby eagles. Aren't people more important than eagles.

Abortion industry must be stopped because they are making money off the tissues for research.

Montana needs ban abortion to increase population to create jobs, revenue and social security for seniors.

One woman said that she was there to testify on behalf of herself and Jesus and her lord the creator.

McGee even asked if the committee thought that the unborn child is a grizzly bear.

So many of them passed out photos of aborted fetuses to the committee.

Oh and there were so many more. Kathy is going to help me.

My point, and you knew this was coming is that these people are completely off their rocker crazy, nuts, crazy. Don't believe me, listen for yourself.

And They Are At It Again

The 2009 Legislature is teeming with attempts to take out our right to choose.

The list is a long one, but let's start with Dan McGee's attempt to pick up where Jore left off, by constitutionally defining a person in SB406. Apparently he missed the 2008 Montana primary where signature gatherers for Jore's amendment couldn't come close to getting on the ballot. He also must have missed Colorado's similar amendment getting the ultimate smackdown. He is also running SB46 as a constitutional amendment. Stating that the state of Montana has a compelling interest in the unborn. McGee is gunning for us ladies. These two are not just aimed at banning abortions, but could be used to control birth choices, ban certain birth controls (AKA the pill), punish women who have miscarriages and outlaw some infertility treatments.

Update ** Tomorrow morning, state Senator Dan McGee is having a hearing on SB 46, an amendment to eliminate the right to privacy for pregnant women in Montana. If this amendment passed, the state would have an interest in every pregnancy whether a woman chose to access abortion care, had a miscarriage or stillbirth, or was making decisions around pregnancy care and birth. I hope you will join us in asking Montana's Senators to vote "no" on this dangerous amendment by clicking the link.

Then there is Gerry Perry taking a stab at parental notification. In Montana, we already have a parental notification law on the books, but it was struck down as unconstitutional based on Montanans constitutional right to privacy. Perry thinks that SB374 can fix all of that. Parental notification is NOT a good idea. It comes across as a moderate compromise in the abortion debate, and it pulls at the heartstrings of parents, but most teens will talk to their parents about having an abortion, and those that won't have a compelling reason not to, to have them go in front of a judge to get permission is not going to help, especially in small rural communities, like ah hem, ALL OF MONTANA. Don't teens have an equal right to privacy that adults do?

There are more. . . Check back later.

I will add this, what can you do? E-mail, call, go up to the capitol to harass the members of the Senate Judiciary committee (scroll down) and beg them not to pass these bills out of committee. Or show up and testify.

People of Laurel - Seriously?!?!?

Sorry it has taken me so long to post this. Last week I enjoying myself some Beartooth NBC when dear god in heaven, I was exposed to this gross gross gross old man (warning clicking on this link will pull up a photo and potentially burn your retinas out) blathering on about how human cloning for stem cell research will over tax women's' ovaries. Seriously.

Here are my problems with this.

1. Krayton, I cannot believe that you are opposed to human cloning/stem cell research because it may potentially harm women.
2. WTF? Why is it okay to talk about women's reproductive organs in the MT legislature? It would be a cold day in hell before someone got up and started talking about their concerns about overtaxing gonads.

Here is my message to you. Krayton, you are kreepy and you are a liar. Just be honest and say why you are really opposed to stem cell research and let us worry about our ovaries.

The other thing that impressed me was the news coverage showing Dianne Sands and Arlene Becker sitting quitely listening to his vile. Diane, jump up and punch him in the enlarged prostate!