The Idaho House just passed a sweeping anti-abortion bill that grants no exceptions for rape, incest, severe fetal abnormality or the mental or psychological health of the mother. As if to avoid any question of the religious basis for the measure, the sponsor state Rep. Brent Crane, R-Nampa, explained to the House that this was God’s will.
Senate Bill 1165 bans abortion after 20 weeks on grounds of fetal pain. Crane invoked the “hand of the Almighty” and “His ways are higher than our ways. He has the ability to take difficult, tragic, horrific circumstances and then turn them into wonderful examples.” The measure passed on a 54-14 vote and now heads to the governor’s desk.
These measures have proven costly to the state. In the 1990s, the legislator passed an anti-abortion law and “spent nearly three-quarters of a million dollars” unsuccessfully defending the law.
Here is the information on Crane from the House website:
Born 07/02/1974 in Nampa ID; graduated in 1992 from Nampa Christian High School, received a B.A. in Political Science with emphasis in Public Administration from Boise State University 2005; Protestant; Vice President of Crane Alarm Service; family: wife Rochenda, son Keaton and daughter Riley.
Source: Spokesman
Samford Liberal
I guess you can’t address my question about poor and middle class college kids. #50 above
Idaho Senate Bill 1165: Adds to existing law to prohibit the abortion of an unborn child of twenty or more weeks postfertilization age.
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guys, that’s 4 months…..that’s hardly banning abortion.
and I like the fetal pain argument. There is proof of fetal nervous systems actually reacting to painful stimuli. So now we can start thinking about what to do with the jerks who cause pain and suffering to children, animals and adults…including rapists…and God….for allowing all this ridiculous pain to begin with! Lets get on with the God trial….
Samford Liberal
Dems always whine when they can’t win a discussion!
Jim,
I have absolutely no interest in you, what you have to say, and your attempts to hijack this thread – and blog for that matter – getting into an infernal pissing match with you.
Go back to clownhall.com and you can cry and whine about how evil the government is …
Jim 1, April 7, 2011 at 4:05 pm
MADDOW STNKS!
na na nana na….another idiot heard from..
Here is one for all of you: God asks for 10% from all no matter who you are. Our government wants those have more pay more. Is Government right or God?
Blouis is right. Take all the liberals and put them together in one half the country. They will be full of moochers where as the other half will actually work for what they get.
And we can start with Mississippi …
Thursday, Apr 7, 2011 15:15 ET
Poll: 46 percent of Mississippi Republicans want interracial marriage ban
By Justin Elliott
When usual Republican primary voters in the state of Mississippi were asked if they think interracial marriage should be legal or illegal, a whopping 46 percent said it should be illegal, compared to 40 percent who think it should be legal. The remaining 14 percent were unsure.
As PPP’s Tom Jensen notes, there are some interesting differences between the candidates’ favorability ratings when broken down according to respondents’ views of interracial marriage:
Palin’s net favorability with folks who think interracial marriage should be illegal (+55 at 74/19) is 17 points higher than it is with folks who think interracial marriage should be legal (+38 at 64/26.) Meanwhile Romney’s favorability numbers see the opposite trend. He’s at +23 (53/30) with voters who think interracial marriage should be legal but 19 points worse at +4 (44/40) with those who think it should be illegal.
Dustin Ingalls, assistant to the director at PPP, tells me that the firm also asked non-Republican voters the interracial marriage question, and he expects those results will be released sometime in the future. He added that PPP also asked whether respondents believe the right side won the Civil War. Those results should also prove interesting.
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/04/07/poll_mississippi_interracial_marriage
There’s a chart at the above link that didn’t translate to this post.
Blouise,
“The stupid deserve representation too … they wouldn’t know their own best interest if it jumped up and bit them on the nose which is why the republicans love ‘em. That black man in the White House being in charge and everything just drives ‘em crazy!”
I say we round up the stupid one’s, give them half the country and let them go effin’ wild!
Obama is Black or White?
2 wars have hurt us. Entitlements are killing us. We should have cut programs while lowering taxes. You see Dems don’t want to cut anything but definately want to raise taxes. Answer this question wise guy:
A poor kid goes to college and can get a pell grant while a middle class kid has to borrow money. Both graduate but the poor kid has no debt while the middle class kid has loans to now pay. This is what Dems have wanted to equalize all. How is that fair?
Stamford Liberal,
The stupid deserve representation too … they wouldn’t know their own best interest if it jumped up and bit them on the nose which is why the republicans love ’em. That black man in the White House being in charge and everything just drives ’em crazy!
Jim
“If government works then how did we get a 14 trillion dollar debt?”
Here’s a better question for you, sport – What happened to a $230 billion budget surplus in two years? Further, where have 10 years of tax cuts done?
“I guess I know where you have had your nose!”
Boobies!! Idiot …
We need to get rid of all entitlements. We need a controlled embargo on specific items which will cause us to have to build them here which in turn will create jobs. We need to stop trying to educate everybody as if we are all the same.
eniobob,
“They say opposites attract,in this case maybe they are and maybe they aren’t.”
WOOF! How would you like to wake up to that every morning??!!
Stamford Liberal
I guess I know where you have had your nose!
42 Stamford Liberal
If government works then how did we get a 14 trillion dollar debt?
Jim,
“At least Ryan is talking about medicare”
Herein lies the difference – when Ryan talks, he’s talking from his ass and it smells like shit.
eniobob, rafflaw & Blouise,
Krugman NAILED it … unicorns, indeed!
Ryan’s plan is nothing more than the same old, GOP shit, different day.
The GOP constantly whines that government doesn’t work and they seek to do everything in their power to ensure it doesn’t. They consistently lie to their base about who, exactly, benefits from government programs, by creating “welfare queens”, “lazy unemployed”, “blood-sucking unions” when just the opposite is true – most welfare receipients are working poor; most unemployed individuals would give anything to have a decent job making a decent wage; unions are responsible for many of the perks the working class enjoy today. Yet, they say nothing of the larger welfare recipients who reap infinitely more in one week than 10,000 “welfare queens” in 10 years – oil, agriculture, defense, just to name a few. They PRAISE those corporations who skip out on taxes (while pocketing billions in refunds) and seek to further open the flood gates to allow corporations to continue its raping of the American people, unfettered.
And so many people have not a clue and continue to rally and vote against their best interests … positively mind-boggling!
SwM,
re: link … good news