Voter Update: Still Sane

[danalwyn]

Apparently, Mississippi is still over fifty percent sane.

I'll leave it to you to decide whether that means things are slowly getting better or still sliding towards worse.

ETA: Personally I'm holding onto optimism and hoping that this marks an overreach for the measure's backers and the beginning of a more sensible backlash against them. But I'm not optimistic enough to bet money about what will happen next time they push one of these laws to the ballot.

Comments

[silverjackal]

Personally I don't understand how anyone -- no matter how fervently devout -- can back such a thing. It's entirely too myopic. The lack of any sort of care or concern for women (while ballyhooing about the "sanctity of life") is entirely too hypocritical for me to comprehend.

"The Colorado-based group describes itself as a nonprofit Christian ministry that "serves the pro-life community by assisting local groups to initiate citizen, legislative and political action focusing on the ultimate goal of the pro-life movement: personhood rights for all innocent humans¹."

¹ Excluding all females outside the womb. (Fixed their little omission for them.)

[quicksilver_ink]

I think myopic is exactly the right term for those voters who supported this bill -- and other anti-legal-abortion initiatives -- but don't actually harbor active hatred for women. They want to be able to have Everyone Live Happily Ever After, for lack of a better way to phrase it, and they don't recognize/want to recognize that sometimes, you can't, and that forcing someone to carry a pregnancy to term won't magically make their emotional, physical, medical, mental, financial, career, educational, and personal circumstances conducive to safely carrying to term, let alone being actively happy about it.

[danalwyn]

Perhaps in their next attempt they will address women's happiness with the situation by allowing all pregnant women a daily ration of marijuana for medical purposes...

And probably they should expand that to all parents. I've known several children whose rearing should probably constitute a "medical condition".

(Jackal, I'm sending a completely unrelated question to you by PM)