WHY is national media ignoring the fact that 78% of House Republicans are cosponsoring a "Life At Conception Act" that would BAN ALL ABORTIONS NATIONWIDE for ANY REASON "from the moment of fertilization"?!
The federal "Life At Conception Act," which also has 18 Republican sponsors in the Senate, is the same as the Personhood Amendment that 58% of Mississippi voters rejected in 2011 because it was so extreme.
Why is most of the national media ignoring the fact that 78% of House Republicans and 36% of Senate Republicans want to give fertilized eggs 14th Amendment rights?
JUST IN: Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch has certified the state's 2007 Roe v. Wade trigger law, criminalizing nearly all abortions at all stages beginning July 7.
Under the trigger law, anyone violating providing an abortion* could face up to 10 years in prison, the same as Mississippi’s pre-Roe v. Wade abortion laws.
The state lawmaker who sponsored Mississippi’s 2007 trigger law, Sen. Joey Fillingane, told the Mississippi Free Press last month that he would like to introduce legislation to repeal all rape exceptions—leaving only "life of the mother" as an exception. mississippifreepress.org/23478/republic…
The people who wanted Roe overturned voted consistently Republican for 40 years to get that outcome.
When they didn't like a GOP candidate, they held their noses and voted anyway because getting a right-wing, anti-Roe majority was more important than likability.
They succeeded.
As an evangelical teen in 2008 who would be 18 by election day, I told my youth group that I didn't like John McCain as a candidate.
My youth leader told me to vote for him anyway because all that mattered is that he would put anti-abortion judges on the Supreme Court.
When I left evangelicalism and went to college (and became familiar with real Democrats/liberals/left-wingers, not caricatures), I was struck by how comparatively little emphasis there was on the Supreme Court and the connection between it and elections.
*People who are raped must have reported their rape to law enforcement in order to obtain an abortion for that reason once the 2007 trigger law becomes effective. mississippifreepress.org/25094/mississi…
“If you have an appointment for an abortion, keep it,” the Mississippi Abortion Access Coalition says. “...Abortion will be banned in Mississippi as early as the 4th of July.” mississippifreepress.org/25094/mississi…
NEW: After 12 years spent dodging debates, U.S. House Rep. Steven Palazzo will face an opponent onstage tomorrow for the first time since winning his seat in 2010.
Over the years, Palazzo has repeatedly ignored invitations to debate Democratic and GOP opponents alike while cruising to re-election. He skipped four GOP primary forums this year.
"I challenge Mike Ezell to a debate to be held under mutually agreeable terms before June 28,” Rep. Palazzo said. “Voters deserve to hear directly from both candidates and compare our records before the runoff.”
NEW: GOP Congressional candidate Brian Flowers is telling voters that, unless they elect him, undocumented immigrants will "come to your middle-class neighborhood" and "swarm your gated community."
“The future of America, your own personal future & that of your posterity depends on repelling the invasion & removing the traitors from their positions of power in public and private life,” Brian Flowers says, alluding to the "great replacement" theory.mississippifreepress.org/24898/gop-cand…