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The GOP In Texas Paases A Bill Allowing Doctors To Lie To Pregnant Women

There are times when I play the devil’s Advocate in political discussions, saying that it isn’t just the GOP that’s horrid, there are awful Democrats, too.

Then I hear stories like this one ...

If you’re a woman and you live in Texas and you think you’re pregnant and you go to the doctor, the GOP-controlled Texas Senate just passed a bill that would ... wait for it, it’s truly disgusting ... would allow your doctor to withhold that information—that you’re pregnant—if the doctor believes you might choose to have an abortion.

Yes, thanks to the GOP, it’s gonna be legal for doctors to lie to their patients, thereby forcing the patient to do what the doctor thinks is best.

Even more disgusting, Texas Republicans are pretending that this is a “wrongful birth” bill meant to prevent doctors from being sued by their pregnant patients.

This wrongful birth bill—Senate Bill 25 ... on its way to the Texas House—prevents parents from suing their doctor if their baby is born with disabilities, even if that doctor discovered the condition during routine prenatal testing and failed to inform the parents.

So, then, what’s to stop an anti-choice doctor from keeping a pregnancy a secret, forcing a woman to carry a child to term, not because she chose it, but because her doctor chose it?

But, hey, it’s Texas and it’s the GOP, so we know a woman doesn’t have a voice.

Or a choice.

Especially when Republicans and doctors are allowed to lie.

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Maybe It's A Conspiracy, But It's A Theory, Too

Now this is all a conspiracy theory, but given that it involves Alaska’s Most Famous White Trash Family, the Palins, well, maybe it’s true …

Last month, on that most holy of days, of course, Christmas Day, Mama Grizzly Bore™ celebrated the birth of daughter Blister’s most recent out-of-wedlock spawn, Sailor Grace. Or … did they?

Sailor Grace’s birth was announced  on December 24 by the Palins on Blister’s blog, and Mama Grizzly Bore™ herself followed up the very next day with a post on her Facebook page on the 25th showing her holding the newborn.

But … the photo Mama Grizzly Bore™ put up on Facebook was posted from New Orleans, so how is the MGB™ holding her brand new granddaughter in New Orleans the day after the child was born in Alaska? Well, MGB™ could have sent the photo to someone else, someone in New Orleans, and they posted it, or she was in New Orleans that day with the baby. Now, if she was there, exactly how did she have a picture of her and her new, one day old granddaughter?

Then, Alleged Baby Daddy, Dakota Meyer, posted this picture to his Twitter account.

Cute, no? But someone noticed something a little odd … something written on the tape holding Blister’s IV in place on her hand.

Right Wing Crooks did some photo enhancing to sharpen the image, then traced over the leftover dark spots to indicate what appeared to be written on the tape. They enhanced the photo and came up with this:

The first number definitely does not look like a 12 at all in either picture. The second looks like a 4, not a 20-anything. The 15 is clear. So, if this picture, of Blister holding her daughter is correct, Blister Palin gave birth on 11/4/2015 or perhaps earlier, and not on 12/24/2015 as she claims.

So, to start off, let’s go back to the miraculous conception … and misconception:

In March 2015, MGB™ announced the engagement of Blister to former Marine and Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer.  It was strange because the Palins, mother and daughter especially, are two of the biggest media whores online, posting pictures constantly of their lives and such, but after the engagement announcement, there was nothing; no Blister shopping for rings; no Blister trying on wedding gowns; no Blister doing that pre-wedding stuff anywhere, anyhow, ever.

Then, in May, just weeks before the wedding, Blister and Mama Grizzly Bore™ announced the wedding was called off and had people wondered why; two reasons emerged:

Dakota Meyer had been married before — which was ALLEGEDLY news to the Palins and they were devastated by the lie and called the whole thing off.

Blister announced she was pregnant and refused to name the father; she refused to name Dakota Meyer as the Daddy and he thought some hanky-panky was going on with Abstinence Mom and so the wedding was off.

So, let’s travel back, again, this time to around Valentine’s Day, when Blister posted two interesting photos to her Instagram page, both taken in Las Vegas ….

In one photo Blister is posing with her family and her best friend, Marina Lupas, an Anchorage-based “adult performer” in a Las Vegas Italian restaurant. In the second photo, a selfie, we see Blister and Marina in the ladies’ room of a Vegas restaurant or casino or something. In the caption accompanying that photo, Bristol says: 

“Reminder of the good old days.  The night before I ruined my life forever.  Worst Valentine’s Day ever.”

Huh? What? The theory at this point is that Blister actually conceived one night in Vegas after a night of partying and a hook-up with some random whomever and suddenly, Abstinence Mom found herself knocked up … AGAIN!

Now, if Blister was knocked up on February 14th, her baby would be due between the 9th and 21st of November.  When her engagement was announced in March — ALLEGEDLY to make the baby “legitimate” and, even better, the child of an American Hero … imagine how MGB™ would ride that for publicity — Blister was already one month pregnant by some random dude she found at a slot machine. 

And MGB™ knew if the public learned that Blister was knocked up as the result of a partying one-night stand in Vegas, her hopes of stardom and relevance, and riding the coattails of an American hero, would come to naught and so the plot was hatched; Bristol would document her pregnancy, complete with photos every month but she would post these photos to Instagram two months AFTER they were taken.  And so, in late November, when Blister posted a photo claiming her baby was due in 3 weeks — Christmas Eve — the baby had already been born.

So let’s go back to that photo MGB™ posted on Facebook of herself and Todd holding newborn Sailor one day after she was “born” — 24 December — in a photo stamped “New Orleans!”  The conspiracy is that the photo of MGB™, Todd, and Sailor was taken shortly after the baby was born on November 4th, and they held off posting it until the day after Blister claimed the baby was born when they were actually in New Orleans. 

And they did all this to make it appear the baby was Dakota Meyer’s child. If the baby were born in December, that would place conception AFTER the Blister-Dakota engagement was announced, thereby making it appear that either Blister and Dakota bumped uglies before the wedding night that never happened, or that the baby was conceived AFTER the marriage in May and just arrived a wee bit early.

And that’s the theory. I am not here to say it’s true, I’m not here to say it’s false; I am just here to deliver a rather interesting story.

Still, I could see the Palins doing this because, seriously, do they ever tell the truth about anything?

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The Daily Hypocrite: The Abstinence Spokeswoman Is Pregnant ... And Unwed ... Again!

I kinda wish that Blister Palin had taken some of the $262,000 she was paid by the Candies Foundation to be their Abstinence Ambassador and purchased a dictionary so she could look up the word “abstinence.”

Yes, it’s true y’all, America’s most infamous unwed mother, and holy rolling self entitled, media whoring, and apparently man whoring, lying religious hypocrite is pregnant again … a month after she called off her wedding to Dakota Meyer, the guy who forgot to tell her he’d been married before.

And, of course Blister, who tried to make herself famous by selling herself, and her first child, to each and every reality show out there, has asked us to give her some privacy. Wrong! You put yourself out there, hon, and you held yourself up to be the Christian role model, a paragon of virtue, for all young girls, and yet you can’t even keep your legs closed.

“I know this has been, and will be, a huge disappointment to my family, to my close friends, and to many of you. But please respect Tripp’s and my privacy during this time. I do not want any lectures and I do not want any sympathy.” — Blister Palin

Oh, honey, you don’t get sympathy the second time you find yourself unwed and pregnant, especially at your age. I mean, surely you knew that by letting your boyfriend — or whomever it was that impregnated you, because you aren’t saying — insert his 'Tab A' into your 'Slot B' might result in pregnancy, right? I mean, you learned that lesson … right? 

Perhaps, perhaps, when you got knocked up the first time in your teens we might have felt some sympathy for you, but then you went and said you got knocked up because you were drunk. Underage drinking leads to unwed motherhood, should ‘a been your tagline for your Candies gig, except you never learned the lesson.

And let’s talk hypocrisy, like a couple of weeks ago when you went after Miley Cyrus for her thoughts on Christianity — something she’s allowed to do in this country — and you held up your Christian faith as the greatest thing ever, even though you knew at that time that you were pregnant by the man you broke up with a few weeks before the wedding.

The hypocrite child doesn’t fall far from the hypocrite mother.

And, to be clear, she is a lying hypocrite, because she was paid to be on The Oprah Show a few years back and she swore to Oprah—which, to some, is almost like swearing to God—that she would never do the nasty again. See, Blister had been paid to do an interview with In Touch magazine and told them that she was “not going to have sex until I’m married. I can guarantee it.”

Oprah then wondered if it was a realistic goal.

“It’s a realistic goal for myself.” — Blister Palin

Hmmm, not so much. Then there was the ad she made — for which she was also paid, remember — with MTV man-whore Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino in which she told girls to abstain from sex until marriage:

“I know you’re all about that abstinence thing, but come on, B-Palin, are you serious? You’re not gonna hook up before you’re married? For real?” — The Situation

“For real.” — Blister

So, yeah, here’s the girl who made history being the knocked-up-unwed-teenage-daughter of a Vice Presidential candidate, who then went on to make hundreds of thousands of dollars telling young girls that abstinence is the only way, swearing to God and Oprah that she would never ever have pre-marital sex gain, and now she’s pregnant, and unmarried, and possibly trying to shop around that story to any network that wants to air hypocrites and liars preaching the gospel.

I imagine she’s on the phone with TLC now.

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The Height of GOP Stupidity, Part Seven: In Arizona, Women Are Considered Pregnant Two Weeks BEFORE Conception

I used to think Jan Brewer, racist, ignorant, and downright stupid, governor of Arizona, was the height of GOP stupidity, but I've recently discovered an entire legislature of lunatics in the Grand Canyon State, aka The empty Noggin State.

See, the Arizona Legislature has passed three incredibly harsh anti-abortion bills last week, including one that defines pregnancy as....wait for it...it's pretty amazing....two weeks before conception. I am admittedly a little dense in the internal workings of the womenfolk of the world--having kept my distance my whole life--but, um, pregnancy happens before conception?

It will, from now on in Arizona, because now it reduces the legal window of when a woman may have an abortion.

Arizona state Representative, Democrat, and a doctor, Matt Heinz does not want the state to set the gestational age since science could not provide a precise one. “I imagine it will be a legal dispute. How can a judge determine gestational age? If medical science can only determine gestational age to within 10-14 days, how can a superior court judge do it?”

Apparently, the wingnut contingent in Arizona thinks there are smarter than scientists and doctors, and thinks judges are, as well.

Now, this asshatted display of lunacy isn't the only anti-abortion bill to pass in Ari-Crazy. In addition to that bill that would prohibit abortions after the 18th week of pregnancy, the GOP-controlled House also passed a bill to protect doctors from being sued if they withhold health information about a pregnancy that might cause a woman to seek an abortion; and a bill to mandate that how school curriculums address the topic of unwanted pregnancies.

The 18th week bill has a sentence that defines gestational age as “calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period of the pregnant woman,” which would move the beginning of a pregnancy up two weeks prior to conception.

Lucky women, now they are pregnant before they actually conceive a child.

In Arizona at any rate. No word on whether wingnut Governor Jan "Eva Braun" Brewer will sign or veto any of these three bills.

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Careful What You Think

Ah, only in America can things like this happen.

Out in Iowa, Christine Taylor was pregnant, already the mother of two, and splitting up with her husband. As is her right, she considered the options available to her as a soon-to-be single mother; she thought about abortion, but decided against it; she thought about giving up the baby for adoption, but changed her mind. She decided that, going through a divorce, having a child, being unemployed, would be the right path for her.

As is her right.

Then one day everything went crazy. See, Christine Taylor had just gotten off the phone from a very argumentative conversation with her estranged husband. She became dizzy then fell down a flight of stairs in her home. She called 911, and paramedics arrived quickly enough and declared her healthy. But, since she was pregnant with her third child, Christine Taylor thought she should see a doctor, and they took her to the local emergency room.

It was there that the world, at least Christine Taylor's world, went nuts.

Worried, and alone, Christine Taylor confided in the nurse treating her about her situation; she told the woman that she hadn't always been sure she'd wanted to keep this baby, now that she was out of work and soon-to-be divorced; she mentioned that she had considered adoption and abortion. She was just venting to someone she thought might have a compassionate ear.

Not so; that nurse summoned a doctor, who questioned Christine further about her thoughts on ending the pregnancy, and the next thing Christine Taylor knew, she was being arrested for attempted feticide, which, according to Iowa state law, is trying "to intentionally terminate a human pregnancy, with the knowledge and voluntary consent of the pregnant person, after the end of the second trimester of the pregnancy." Apparently the nurse and doctor thought she had thrown herself down the stairs on purpose.

Christine Taylor spent two days in jail before being released. Yes, a pregnant woman was jailed because she'd thought about abortion, and then fell down some stairs a couple of months later.

After a nearly month-long investigation, the District Attorney declined to prosecute Christine Taylor. Now, the DA didn't come to his decision because it seemed moronic to prosecute a women for thinking; no, the decision was made because it came to light that Taylor was late in her second trimester when she fell, not early in her third as the nurse and doctor had thought.

See, it's okay in Iowa to fall down a flight of stairs in the first two-thirds of your pregnancy, but after the last third begins, well, it's the slammer for you. But, what for me, feels even more disgusting, is that this woman thought she was speaking confidentially and compassionately with the staff at her local hospital. How does a doctor-patient conversation get handed over to the police department?

Thought police?

Kate v Jessica

from Shakesville Two Hollywood actresses are new mothers, yet they have completely different views on their post-pregnancy bodies:

  Kate Winslet speaking with Cynthia McFadden on Nightline: "I've decided I am going to start loving my backside. I don't know anyone who does that, you know? And for my daughter I want to be able to say to her, I love this, I love this, look, my belly does this because I had you guys and this is what happens to breasts when you nurse two children." _______________________________________________-

Jessica Alba: “I wore a girdle. Eight weeks after my girlfriend had her baby, you could see her six-pack. She told me to put an elastic band around my waist—any kind of band or girdle works. She was like, 'I slept in it.' I didn’t recover as fast as she did. I [still] don’t have a six-pack.”