The Rude Pundit - Your State Sucks: Tennessee Sucks Because It Hopes to Own Women's Bodies

[meegbear]

The word "retarded" is generally banned from polite discourse. It is a loaded term, one that upsets a number of people. It carries with it cultural weight, and, used for certain populations, it degrades those who need protecting. However, the Rude Pundit has gone through his mighty vocabulary to come up with another word for Amendment 1, a constitutional amendment that's up for vote in November in Tennessee. And, well, the only thing that seems to work, because everyone knows what you mean when you say it, whether you want to admit that or not, is "retarded."

Read it for yourself: "Nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of an abortion. The people retain the right through their elected state representatives and state senators to enact, amend, or repeal statutes regarding abortion, including, but not limited to, circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest or when necessary to save the life of the mother."

This is retarded. It is fucking retarded. It was written by fucking retards to appeal to fucking retards because the first retards want to make sure the second retards stay retarded and vote for them, retardedly.

Amendment 1 says the state owns women bodies, purely and simply, and it destroys the balance of power in the state to do it. But don't take the Rude Pundit's word for it. Listen to every major newspaper in the state:

The Nashville Tennesseean: &quot I)f you were to vote yes, you would, indeed, be doing much: First, by setting the legislative branch of government above the judiciary, and second by enshrining (through the second sentence of the amendment) the ability of state lawmakers to exceed the limits on Roe v. Wade thus far allowed by the U.S. Supreme Court...the second sentence of the amendment clearly signals they intend to ban abortion even in cases involving rape, incest and when pregnancy or childbirth endangers the life of the mother."

The Memphis Commercial-Appeal: "In the bigger picture, Amendment 1 is not only about abortion. We agree with opponents of the proposal that at a fundamental level it also is about who makes a woman’s health decisions — the woman herself, or state lawmakers who too often are guided by partisan and ideological motives. Those motives sometimes have no respect for a person’s privacy. Women should have the right to make private, personal decisions about their health."

The Knoxville News-Sentinel: "The first sentence would remove a woman’s right to make decisions about her pregnancy. Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, the courts have consistently ruled that a woman has the overriding interest in the course of her pregnancy until the fetus is viable. If Amendment 1 passes, the state Legislature could pass laws that dictate any or all decisions a woman might make, from the moment of conception onward."

The Chattanooga Times Free-Press:"Decisions about contraception and abortion — like decisions about Viagra and fertility treatments — should be made by a man or woman in consultation with their faith, their family and their doctors."

These are not from the crazy-ass liberal media. The Tennessean endorsed Mitt Romney for president in 2012. The Times Free-Press endorsed Gary Johnson in 2012 and John McCain in 2008.

But cruel fucks will be cruel fucks. And they will manipulate people who are so deranged by religion and poverty that they only have GodJesus to comfort them, so they don't wanna piss him off. The lives of women in Tennessee, in all those cities, are in the hands of the, well, see the first paragraph.

More on this tomorrow.

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2014/10/your-state-sucks-tennessee-sucks.html

[CBGLuthier]

1. So now this asshole hauls out THAT word. Really what a limited and cruel vocabulary he has.

I imagine those who find this guy funny laugh at racist jokes too.

[shenmue]

2. This is horrible

[marym625]

3. These people are definitely are working with

a mental deficiency.

The current trend in the right wing to enslave women is beyond anything I have seen in my lifetime. It's not that they haven't been doing it forever but recently, there is no doubt, it is worse.

The lack of reality in education at schools in some southern states is partly to blame. The kids are not taught to think or question but instead to follow blindly.

Hopefully, this has no chance of passing.

[Scuba]

4. As someone who categorically objects to the word "retarded" ...

... I endorse this column by the Rude One.

[marym625]

6. I hope people address the actual issue

And not the word.

[TNNurse]

5. I wish I could vote NO

More than once. This is a horrible amendment.

[dotymed]

9. My Son

has been going door to door to GOTV. I hope it matters. This is truly another example of how these people(?) think they should force their purported beliefs on us. If it were their daughter, I am certain she would be sent across state lines.
Tn. is truly run by idiots bent on keeping others under their thumb, not representing us. Women's rights are their current target. Before that it was their refusal to expand our medicaid program for ACA...

[Dont call me Shirley]

7. He could have picked a non-bigoted word to describe these gop morons, idiots, man-childs,

dumb-assess, creeps, lunatics, authoritarians, lack of any self-control so they seek control over other-ites, mentally inferiors, erroneous thinkers, low emotional IQers, inability to think with reason and rationability-ers.

Women you better go vote and vote no for these totalitarian privatize-women jerks, in such huge numbers that it literally scares the pants off of them, leaving the little emperors with no clothes.

[Lars39]

8. Dear gawd I could kiss the The Rude for writing this op-ed.

Been absolutely furious over this VoteYes1 crap! Saw an elderly man in a grocery store wearing one of those pins... Mean and bitter showed all over that assholes face and actions...arguing with the cashier over a loaf of bread, too. You don't get that way overnight...I bet he was an unlovable jerk when he was younger too.


And on edit: Fuck every one of these fundamentalist religious nutjobs who want to take us back to the 14th century!!!!!!