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One Step Closer to The Handmaid’s Tale

Hey kids, you know how the Republican-led House of Representatives voted to cut funding for many procedures performed by Planned Parenthood?

Well, they topped themselves yesterday. Now they’ve passed H.R. 358, the Protect Life Act, which prohibits women from using their own money to purchase private health insurance that would cover an abortion if it were medically necessary. The bill would also allow hospitals to refuse, on moral grounds, to treat a woman who was seeking an abortion, even in emergency or life-threatening situations.

Keep on voting for those Republican representatives, people, because they’re obviously doing your will, right? Continue reading

Welcome to Democrazy

“Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” – Sir Winston Churchill –

A successful democracy has always rested on two fundamental pillars. The first is compromise; the ability for even the most intractable of political foes to sit down at a table and hammer out laws that neither of them like, but that both of them can live with. The second is the exclusion of extreme elements. Simply put, government cannot function if the lunatics are running the asylum. Continue reading