Well that was satisfyingly fast. After news broke late last week that Alabama state Sen. Larry Stutts, an OB/GYN, was trying to repeal a 1999 law passed after a woman died under his care, Stutts turned around Tuesday and withdrew the bill, muttering that he'd have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for those meddling reporters.
Wow. I've got to say that I've never thought of it that way. The surprise about that was that I'm her husband and drafted Rose's Law. You may be right. I only found out in the last few days that he was a vet before he was an OB/GYN.
"I certainly don’t know what ultimately motivated him to do the right thing, but I’m certainly glad he did in this instance […] sometimes you have people who have their own personal agendas and we have responsibilities as citizens to step up and keep an eye on our elected officials and try to make certain that they do the right thing."
Hey, Doc, better have some friends who do reconstructive surgery, cuz you got BURNED.
Little bit of bias in your reply. Even a littler bit of intellectual honesty. On the off chance that the series of tubes that delivers the Google didn't deliver this part of the story to your computer, Rose's Law was passed and signed into law in 1999. Not sure how hip you are on current events, but Obama wasn't elected until 2008... ergo, Republicans had not completely lost their minds, and Teabaggers were about 10 years away from their wrath of destruction across our country. Nice try, though.
Still off the mark. My name is Gene Church. My wife died. I took my daughter when she was one month old to the Alabama Stare House for 4 months. We passed Rose's Law. And I'm one of those Tea Party Republicans you refer to.
A brief glance at your Disqus history shows that you're just a bog-standard right-wing troll. Big surprise with your Disqus name. This just happens to be the latest thing you've picked up on, rather than denying science or oppressing women (because "we disagree about what their rights are").
I'm fine with your name calling. I merely consider the source. Given your responses toward me, what your opinions are seem largely irrelevant. Did you even bother to read the article? Didn't think so.
That's a strange place to take things, accusing me of not reading an article you consider lies. And you're dodging the accusation, not refuting it. You know bearing false witness is a sin?
Not at all. Let's see... You called me "a bog-standard right wing troll." You expect me to care about that opinion? You allege that I am not who am I. Again, why should I care about your opinion? I operate Catholic radio stations called Divine Word Radio. The Divine Word is Jesus Christ. My wife died under the care of this doctor. You are the denier of science apparently. It isn't oppression of women to be opposed to killing them in the womb. Did I miss something?
Post Civil Rights era Democratic politicians have tended to propose legislation and vote with empathy toward their fellow human beings. Yet "liberal" has been turned into a slur and Democrats in red states like LA are often afraid to reveal themselves as such. Meanwhile the GOP, in the past four decades, has dedicated itself to an agenda of harming their fellow humans and, yes, denying them health care. Every so often they do the right thing but that does not alter, in any remotely significant way, the preponderance of evidence against the proposition that it is "biased" to assume that Republicans lack empathy.
You have the right to be wrong. I doubt seriously that the millions of people that identify themselves with the GOP see themselves as lacking empathy, and would contend that those who identify themselves as liberals actually cause harm to the very people that they claim to help.
But in any case, Rose's Law was unanimously passed by both Democrats and Republicans, men and women. And OrdinaryJoe's statement drips with personal bias unbecoming the underlying facts.
As to Larry Stutts, he is a petty, vindictive little man.
So, a white dude with a career in vagina's and a white dude with a career afraid to matching genitals in the bedroom both have this in common, it's the media's fault that their policies are misunderstood!
He wouldn't be able to get a bill co-sponsored by anyone in the Alabama legislature now, even if it said how great Alabama Coach Nick Saban was.
Little bit of bias in your statement. Rose's Law was unanimously passed by the Alabama Legislature, and the author of the bill is a Republican.
Wow. I've got to say that I've never thought of it that way. The surprise about that was that I'm her husband and drafted Rose's Law. You may be right. I only found out in the last few days that he was a vet before he was an OB/GYN.
"I certainly don’t know what ultimately motivated him to do the right thing, but I’m certainly glad he did in this instance […] sometimes you have people who have their own personal agendas and we have responsibilities as citizens to step up and keep an eye on our elected officials and try to make certain that they do the right thing."
Hey, Doc, better have some friends who do reconstructive surgery, cuz you got BURNED.
Little bit of bias in your reply. Even a littler bit of intellectual honesty. On the off chance that the series of tubes that delivers the Google didn't deliver this part of the story to your computer, Rose's Law was passed and signed into law in 1999. Not sure how hip you are on current events, but Obama wasn't elected until 2008... ergo, Republicans had not completely lost their minds, and Teabaggers were about 10 years away from their wrath of destruction across our country. Nice try, though.
Still off the mark. My name is Gene Church. My wife died. I took my daughter when she was one month old to the Alabama Stare House for 4 months. We passed Rose's Law. And I'm one of those Tea Party Republicans you refer to.
Likely story.
A brief glance at your Disqus history shows that you're just a bog-standard right-wing troll. Big surprise with your Disqus name. This just happens to be the latest thing you've picked up on, rather than denying science or oppressing women (because "we disagree about what their rights are").
I'm not certain how likely, but certainly true.
I'm fine with your name calling. I merely consider the source. Given your responses toward me, what your opinions are seem largely irrelevant. Did you even bother to read the article? Didn't think so.
That's a strange place to take things, accusing me of not reading an article you consider lies. And you're dodging the accusation, not refuting it. You know bearing false witness is a sin?
Not at all. Let's see... You called me "a bog-standard right wing troll." You expect me to care about that opinion? You allege that I am not who am I. Again, why should I care about your opinion? I operate Catholic radio stations called Divine Word Radio. The Divine Word is Jesus Christ. My wife died under the care of this doctor. You are the denier of science apparently. It isn't oppression of women to be opposed to killing them in the womb. Did I miss something?
By the way, I don't consider the article lies.
Post Civil Rights era Democratic politicians have tended to propose legislation and vote with empathy toward their fellow human beings. Yet "liberal" has been turned into a slur and Democrats in red states like LA are often afraid to reveal themselves as such. Meanwhile the GOP, in the past four decades, has dedicated itself to an agenda of harming their fellow humans and, yes, denying them health care. Every so often they do the right thing but that does not alter, in any remotely significant way, the preponderance of evidence against the proposition that it is "biased" to assume that Republicans lack empathy.
You have the right to be wrong. I doubt seriously that the millions of people that identify themselves with the GOP see themselves as lacking empathy, and would contend that those who identify themselves as liberals actually cause harm to the very people that they claim to help.
But in any case, Rose's Law was unanimously passed by both Democrats and Republicans, men and women. And OrdinaryJoe's statement drips with personal bias unbecoming the underlying facts.
As to Larry Stutts, he is a petty, vindictive little man.
So, a white dude with a career in vagina's and a white dude with a career afraid to matching genitals in the bedroom both have this in common, it's the media's fault that their policies are misunderstood!