For any reason

By Capt. Fogg

Lyin' Bill.  He earns his title every day. What's he lyin' about now you might ask?  Why, he's telling us that a Texas women can get an abortion at any time -- simply because of a sprained hand for instance.

“You can just kill the baby, or the fetus, however you want to describe it, any time you want for any reason, you know, women’s health, that’s any reason at all.”

Sure, we all know that women are hypochondriacs, prone to hysteria and likely to be faking things like they fake orgasms and I'm sure Bill has experience there. God makes sure women don't die in childbirth anyway, just like he makes sure they don't get pregnant when they get raped. So if a woman wants to terminate a pregnancy, we can be sure it's because she doesn't want to cancel a hair dresser appointment or something equally as important. Why we ever let them vote, I don't know.

In one of those bilious exchanges that Fox is famous for, O'Reilly and Kirsten Powers went back and forth ratcheting up the lies:

Lyin' Bill:  “In New York here, there’s a proposal, ‘I don’t want any limitations on anything!' It’s crazy.”

Powers: “The current status quo in Texas that these people are fighting for, who are fighting the bill, is to be able to abort your baby up until the third trimester.”

Lyin' Bill:  “Yeah! For any reason! Women’s health! ‘Hey! Look I sprained my hand!"

Powers: “Yeah.  For any reason. For any reason. Yeah.”

Of course no one of integrity, no one who gives a rancid shit about the truth or human rights or anything but his stinking faith believes this garbage. Very, very few late term abortions are ever performed and even fewer of that "partial birth" procedure they'd love to tell you happens all the time.  Such things are done with dead fetuses,  fetuses with no brain and the like, but Fox has never stumbled over a fact so far.  Nor, for all their ranting, whooping and hollering, all their pusillanimous persiflage about how Liberals are trashing the constitution have they ever really seen the law as anything but a nuisance and impediment to "freedom" and something that can be and should be ignored by any state with or without public support. 

No, there should be no regulation of anything but women and if God didn't bother to ban abortion, well then the Great State a' Texas is gonna take care of it for him, now all y'all have a nice day, y'hear?

Injustice Texas style wherein the media helps a victim

Some good has come out of the coverage of the Texas juvenile detetion facilities scandal. Although the media has virtually ignored Gonzales' cover-up of the related sex scandal, at least it appears that 15-year-old black teenager Shaquanda Cotton will be freed from an inappropriate incarceration after spending over a year there for allegedly shoving a teacher's aide.

The case raised serious questions of racial bias, and rightly so, as even a casual observer would have to see the entire Texas justice system is fraught with it. The good news is, that due to the media attention Ms. Cotton was ordered released Friday.

Michael Tubthumper and Belledame222 at Fetch My Axe have comprehensive background on the story so I won't repeat that here but I do want to share this quote that comes via Avedon. A commenter at No More Mister Nice Blog added this bit of interesting trivia to the back story.

"You're probably aware of this, Steve, but ironically one of the best guys we Texans have for this kind of reform was shot in the face by the vice president about a year and a half ago," and Steve's response: "I'm sorry to say I didn't know that, but I was just catching up via the column Molly Ivins wrote just after the shooting. I wonder how Whittington's doing these days."

I occassionally wonder about the unfortunate Mr. Whittington myself. The anniversary of the shooting passed us by recently with almost no notice.