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Wednesday, March 6th, 2013

Abortion and the Playground Set, No-fault Divorce and ‘teenage Harlots

Author:     KATIE MCDONOUGH
Source:     Salon
Publication Date:     Tuesday, Mar 5, 2013 09:58 AM PST
 Link: Abortion and the Playground Set, No-fault Divorce and ‘teenage Harlots
Stephan:   I have begun to think that it is a measure of the growing power of the Virtual Corporate States and the diminishment of government's democratic institutions, that such shoddy people as these legislators, are in office. I was going to do each of these bills as a separate story, then found this compendium. It makes the point as to how prevalent this is, and how it is almost exclusively the work of Republicans.

Lawmakers in North Carolina want to teach grade-schoolers that abortion causes preterm birth, an Iowa Republican fears that no-fault divorce will turn his 16-year-old granddaughter into a a loose woman, and the Arkansas Senate is hoping to override a veto on a 12-week abortion ban.

Sadly, you can’t make this stuff up. A roundup of these and other proposals that are actually being considered by real, live elected officials this week.

Staying together for the kids

A three-member subcommittee in the Iowa House of Representatives is currently mulling a bill that would outlaw no-fault divorce for the parents of minor children. Rep. Tedd Gassman, a Republican member of the subcommittee, said he’s ‘concerned about the negative impact divorce has on children,

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