GOP Senator Pushes Radical Bill To Restrict Discussion Of Abortion Over The Internet

[47of74]

Source: Think Progress

Instead of focusing on job creation, congressional Republicans have spent their time passing socially conservative legislation like the “Let Women Die” bill that would allow hospitals that receive federal funds to deny women life-saving abortion procedures.

Now Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), one of the most die-hard anti-choice lawmakers, has jumped on the bandwagon by sneaking a radical anti-abortion amendment onto a completely unrelated piece of legislation. DeMint’s amendment would ban women and their doctors from discussing abortion over the Internet:

Anti-choice Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) just filed an anti-choice amendment to a bill related to agriculture, transportation, housing, and other programs. The DeMint amendment could bar discussion of abortion over the Internet and through videoconferencing, even if a woman’s health is at risk and if this kind of communication with her doctor is her best option to receive care.

Under this amendment, women would need a separate, segregated Internet just for talking about abortion care with their doctors.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/10/19/347993/jim-demint-prohibit-internet-abortion-discussion/

[Faygo Kid]

1. Another outrage. Where are the jobs, you control freaks?

DeMint panders to his base of haters.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

14. THEY ENVY AND THEREFORE THEY HATE

SO SAD THEY LIVE IN THE FOX ECHOCHAMBER

[lunasun]

2. I am glad they're sticking to their promise to keep governmnet out of our lives!!!

sigh
should have really known that in doublespeak their idea of small government would mean a grab for total govnmnt control

[christx30]

18. They do want small government

It's just that they want government small enough to fit neatly inside your bedroom and your doctor's office.
When they say that they don't want big government, they mean that they don't want anyone to control what they do, but they want to control what others do.

The short way of saying that is hyprocracy.

[KansDem]

3. My tax dollars helped to develop the Internet...

So keep your fucking religion off the Tubes, Senator!

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Won't survive a First Amendment challenge.

Grandstanding.

[msongs]

5. how bout an amendment barring discussions about republicans over the internet? would do more good nt

[thecrow]

16. That would pretty much shut down DU

Be careful what you ask for!

[Seedersandleechers]

6. He's just wasting time in the Senate

to avoid doing anything that might help the 99%.

[Bandit]

7. They sure do love the Constitution don't they?

"They hate us for our Freedoms"........If this guy had a brain he would be dangerous..

[FiveGoodMen]

9. It is, indeed, the CHRISTIAN right that hate us for our freedoms

Middle-easterners wouldn't give a shit about the issue if we'd just stop invading them.

[FiveGoodMen]

8. How about a bill making it a crime to try to take away 1st Amendment rights?

[SoapBox]

10. Outrageous! This creep is beyond the pale...

Disgusting.

[ixion]

11. and yet the teabaggers still claim the mantle of "small government"

which, when juxtaposed against crap like this shows a complete cognitive disconnect.

[sulphurdunn]

12. Please, dear lord,

let these stupid fuckers become so entangled in the web or anti-abortion legislation and the ravings of their teabagger base that they can do nothing else until their sorry assess are kicked to the curb. Amen. O8)

[Swede Atlanta]

13. What a piece of shit this one is........

This won't survive constitutional scrutiny. You cannot prevent parties from engaging in free speech. But they keep trying. I wish someone would pass a law that makes it illegal for him to have a fucking orgasm. Can we prevent him from pro-creating or being anywhere near the rearing of children where his stupidity might be inherited or learned?

[Chan790]

15. Another series of tubes moment for the GOP.

I guess nobody told him that US laws end at the border and that current guidelines on free speech on the internet wouldn't reinstate those laws upon dissemination of content into the US from foreign servers.

All it takes to thwart this law...is a relay in Canada. As long as the communications pass out and into the US, the law would be non-enforceable. It might add a whole #0.00001 to the costs of these teleconferences and an additional 2ns delay.

Fuck you, Jim DeMint.

[julian09]

17. Internet is a person and has free speech rights nt

[McCamy Taylor]

19. Confused. Does this ban any discussion of abortion by women and/or doctors?

Would it be ok for men and/or lawyers to discuss it on the Internet?

What if the doctor is also a corporation? Hasn't the Supreme Court given corporations unlimited freedom of speech? If the abortion provider is a corporation, would not this be a socialist style attempt to restrict business?

My head is spinning.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

20. I don't see this standing for 5 minutes in a 1A challenge

[Viking12]

21. Note to Demint; There are no jobs in womens' uteri

Limited Government Constitutional Conservative? Only if you ignore the actual meaning of all of those words.

[valerief]

22. I'm so fuckin' sick of these fuckin' lunatics. nt

[alp227]

23. Thought police jobs? Yay! n/t

[Chan790]

24. "Oy, stop that! We know what you're thinking!"

You should be ashamed. :hide:

Really, I think DeMent(ed) would welcome the opportunity to create thought-police jobs. That asshole probably thinks his own dirty thoughts are ivory-pure.

[47of74]

25. I don't want to know what DeDumbs--t is thinking