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Repeal The Hyde Amendment!

Check out this video put out by the Center for Reproductive Rights, explaining what the Hyde Amendment is and why it’s so completely silly and unfair:

The video features both Jesse and myself, as well as Jay Smooth, Aimee Thorne-Thomsen, Sarah Seltzer, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Heather Corinna, Jill Filipovic, Allison Kilkenny, and Jamie Kilstein.  The Center is asking for more 20 second videos from the public, so watch the video to get an idea of what we’re doing and record one of your own.

 

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Posted by Amanda Marcotte on 02:24 PM • (28) Comments

And if I may say, Jesse gets one of the biggest laugh lines.

Comment #1: Amanda Marcotte  on  01/14  at  02:43 PM

That’s a great video. It so perfectly sums up their little tantrum throwing.

Comment #2: Mighty Ponygirl  on  01/14  at  03:09 PM

We’re trying to put together a mainstream media campaign, and we need your submissions to do it, so please submit your 20 second YouTube video to http://reproductiverights.org/youtube if you can!

Comment #3: Marc  on  01/14  at  03:36 PM

I’d also like to pass along this hilarious video from The Onion that’s perilously close to real anti-choice laws (apologies if this has been shared here before, but I just saw it): “New Law Requires Women to Name Baby, Paint Nursery Before Getting Abortion”
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/new_law_requires_women_to_name

Comment #4: CalliopeJane  on  01/14  at  05:51 PM

Great job all. (May I say how much I lurve Jay Smooth? Because I totally do.)

Comment #5: PixelFish  on  01/14  at  06:53 PM

Hypocritcal and unfair…..WOW….that’s a good reason to take it out.  What a cast of characters that was! My money going to murder unborn babies….I DON’T THINK SO!

Comment #6: cookie  on  01/14  at  07:29 PM

cookie, your money does go to murder unborn babies.  In Iraq and Afghanistan.  Oh and born babies, children, and adults too.

Comment #7: DonnaDiva  on  01/14  at  07:56 PM

Cookie will sooner pay to have you killed than to subsidize your fucking.

Comment #8: Amanda Marcotte  on  01/14  at  08:00 PM

cookie’s money already most likely pays for abortions through his private insurance.

Comment #9: bananacat  on  01/14  at  08:16 PM

Or her insurance.  I didn’t mean to assume cookie’s gender.

Comment #10: bananacat  on  01/14  at  08:16 PM

Hypocritcal and unfair…..WOW….that’s a good reason to take it out.  What a cast of characters that was! My money going to murder unborn babies….I DON’T THINK SO!

umm.. wut?

Yes. The Hyde/Stupak/etc amendments are hypocritical and unfair. That is in fact a good reason to take it out.

I don’t know if that’s a proper cast of characters. I mean, it’s not like they had Gary Oldman. or Bruce Campbell. or even The Nostalgia Critic or anything.

You can’t really murder unborn babies, babies are not babies until they are born. before that they’re strictly hypothetical. Much the same way you can drive across an unfinished bridge.

but even barring that, you seem to have grasped the concept we’re discussing here, and why the amendments are bad, and then you speak in defense of it at the end?

I am forced to conclude you were spending several minutes typing, got distracted when someone waved a shiny object, and when you sat back down to conclude, you had forgotten the subject at hand, so “I don’t think so” actually referred to something entirely unrelated.

Comment #11: karpad  on  01/14  at  08:56 PM

Cookie is an abortion. Cookie, shouldn’t you be on your favorite cop forum, crowing about how Melvin Jones had it coming to him?

Comment #12: Nobody in Particular  on  01/14  at  08:57 PM

Amanda, I could really care less about who or what you fuck….I actually just threw up a little in my mouth thinking about that…...
karpad…...that was sarcasm which you clearly missed…..“You can’t really murder unborn babies..babies are not babies until they are born, before that they are strictly hypothetical.”  Are you serious??  I do believe that is the stupidest fucking thing I have ever heard in my entire life.  I can’t even have a serious discussion with someone who’s that ignorant.

Comment #13: cookie  on  01/14  at  09:30 PM

I can’t even have a serious discussion with someone who’s that ignorant.

I bet you say that every time you talk to yourself.

Comment #14: speedbudget  on  01/14  at  09:35 PM

I can’t even have a ... discussion

Promises, promises.

Comment #15: Punditus Maximus  on  01/14  at  09:41 PM

I do believe that is the stupidest fucking thing I have ever heard in my entire life.

You really ought to listen to yourself more often; you might be astounded.

Comment #16: Nobody in Particular  on  01/14  at  09:48 PM

Cookie demonstrates being more ignorant than karpad by denying basic definitions of words.

A manuscript is not a book until it is placed between covers. A fetus isn’t a baby until it is born. Both are works in progress with the potential to become the goal. And the editor Nature causes more zygotes not to become embryos not to become fetuses not to become babies than all voluntary decisions ever do.

Comment #17: Samantha Vimes  on  01/14  at  09:58 PM

Woot! :D NICE JOB.

Comment #18: Lisa KS  on  01/14  at  10:26 PM

Amazing that I have seen the comparison of an unborn baby to a book and a bridge.

Comment #19: cookie  on  01/14  at  10:57 PM

More amazing that you’ve totally missed the point of both analogies.

Comment #20: Karalora  on  01/14  at  11:08 PM

I actually just threw up a little in my mouth thinking about that…...

And this hostility to female sexuality plays no part in your opinion on abortion?  I doubt it.

Comment #21: Amanda Marcotte  on  01/15  at  12:31 AM

Hypocritical and unfair, sure. Also: more dead women, dead children, dead actual born babies. It’s like a trifecta.

Comment #22: paul  on  01/15  at  11:32 AM

what does female sexuality and killing unborn babies have to do with each other??  So you’re sexualizing unborn babies??  You’re even more disturbed and perverted than I ever thought.  I have no hostility toward female sexuality.  Clearly you have hostility toward defenseless unborn babies.

Comment #23: cookie  on  01/15  at  11:34 AM

Oh cookie, if you don’t know where babies come from, then there’s ways to find out.  You don’t have to be so angry and lash out at everyone.  Google is your friend.

Comment #24: Amanda Marcotte  on  01/15  at  11:44 AM

Mmm, unborn babies…they stay crunchy in milk.

Comment #25: Lisa KS  on  01/15  at  03:51 PM

<blockquotewhat does female sexuality and killing unborn babies have to do with each other??</blockquote>

See, this is why talking with conservatives is like trying to come up with an argument of “How many utils is a polka-dot green sky worth?”  I don’t understand what the bloody fuck you’re talking about.

Comment #26: Antigone  on  01/15  at  04:50 PM

Oh cookie, if you don’t know where babies come from, then there’s ways to find out.

This classic from Yahoo Answers is about cookie’s speed.

Comment #27: Gracchus.  on  01/15  at  05:27 PM

I think cookie just officially failed the stick test.  Wow.

Comment #28: Caren-Sun-blocking Creator of Animorphic Pancakes  on  01/15  at  06:05 PM
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