Jack & Jill Do Texas

A morality tale about Jack and Jill: Both Jack and Jill are students at the University of Texas in Austin in 2020. They may be college students, but they're not all that intelligent. First they allow themselves to indulge in whatever strikes their fancy, then they fail to use birth control. Pregnancy ensues.

Jack consults his friends and family and finds a physician who will help Jill, even though he knows it is now illegal. Jack then goes to his bank and withdraws $1,000.00 from his trust fund. He then drives to Jill's apartment and picks her up, taking her to the surgeon's clinic. Jack holds Jill's hand as they enter the facility and waits with her. When Jill begins to express doubt, Jack encourages her to stay the course. When the procedure is over, Jack drives Jill home, picks up and pays for her pain pills, and stays with her until she is well. He buys her groceries and cooks for her. In short, Jack is Jill's nurse until she is better. When he feels Jill is well, he leaves her a substantial amount of cash to tide her over due to her missing work for a week. Most people would say Jack acted responsibly. We say that's up for discussion, but he at least didn't abandon Jill. Yet...

The next week, the surgeon's office is raided. He's arrested and his records confiscated. Jill's name turns up, and she's arrested for Capital Murder. Jack is home sleeping and doesn't know what has happened until much later. Is he in danger of similar arrest? No, not in the Texas of 2020. Only Jill will be prosecuted for murder...Capital Murder at that. Jill is facing spending the rest of her life in prison...or worse.

How is this happening? The citizens of Texas will have state representative Tony Tinderholt to thank if this should become law. Obviously, this bill has little chance of passing. If the bill should be enacted into law, it will be swiftly struck down by appellate courts. How much money will the Texas taxpayers be out over this debacle and why?

Rep. Tony Tinderholt says this is a moral law. Tinderholt may not be the best authority on morals. He's been married five times to four different women. Yes, one poor woman had the significant bad judgment to marry him twice. Why would Texans want someone like Tinderholt defining their morals? 

Why did Alabamians ever want then Rep. Ed Henry to legislate their reproductive morality? (That's the same Henry who recently pleaded guilty to stealing hundreds of thousands from Medicare.) Yes, that was purely a rhetorical question which no sane person could be expected to answer.

On the Left is Bethany (Mrs. Tony) Tinderholt Advertising Playboy Condoms...or Maybe Melons. She and Her Husband Want to Tell Texans How to Live a Moral Life. Need We Say More? 

Two Views of Induced Abortion - Moore v. Jones

Roy Moore and Doug Jones:  A Vote of Conscience

Abortion will likely be an influence in the upcoming Alabama Senate race between Judge Roy Moore and Doug Jones.  Judge Moore clearly stands against abortion as do nearly 60% of adults in Alabama (who) believe that abortion should be illegal in all or most cases according to a recent Pew Poll.  

In a recent interview with F. Chuck Todd of MSNBC on September 27 Moore’s Democratic challenger Doug Jones said, “I’m a firm believer that a woman should have freedom to choose what happens to her own body” and that he opposed a ban on abortions after the 20^th week of gestation, which is in a bill passed by the U. S. House of Representatives and now being considered by the Senate.  He went on to say, “I’m not in favor of anything that is going to infringe on a woman’s right and her freedom to choose.  That’s just the position I’ve had for many years.  It's a position I continue to have. But I want to make sure people understand, that once a baby is born, I'm going to be there for that child. That's where I become a right-to-lifer."  

In an interview with AL.com on Nov. 2 Jones said, "To be clear, I fully support a woman's freedom to choose to what happens to her own body. That is an intensely, intensely personal decision that only she, in consultation with her God, her doctor, her partner or family, that's her choice. Having said that, the law for decades has been that late-term procedures are generally restricted except in the case of medical necessity. That's what I support. I don't see any changes in that. It is a personal decision."  

Seeing how the Democratic Party and Planned Parenthood have backed Jones it appears to be the official position of the Democratic Party.  In founding Planned Parenthood Margaret Sanger wrote in a 1921 article, “The most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.”  She once wrote that "consequences of breeding from stock lacking human vitality always will give us social problems and perpetuate institutions of charity and crime."  Sounds like Sanger is trying to play the role of God to me.  Doesn’t that sound a lot like the Nazi Party of Germany in the 1930s?  And the Democrats bash any one or any idea from the South with the “Lost Cause” myth and call them Nazis?  Democrats are just mad they don't  get credit for inspiring Adolph Hitler.

Southern Son

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Two Preliminary Questions on Fetal Life

Does life begin at conception? If you said yes, why doesn't it begin just a little earlier (approximately three or four days) when the sperm fertilizes the egg? Medical data tells us 50% of fertilized eggs don't result in conception (attach to the wall of the uterus). Were they not life too? I'm pretty sure your answer of no is followed by a "but." 

My second question is why fetal death in the Old Testament isn't considered murder. I'm talking about the fetuses mentioned in Exodus that God says you have to pay a fine for destroying. Kill the mother and it's manslaughter, but kill the fetus and it's a property offense? Please explain that in view of those today who call it murder. Do they know more than God?

Just for the record, I don't believe abortion should be used as birth control. I do think our schools and government do a horrendous job of helping a woman/couple BEFORE pregnancy, but then want to step in after conception.

I'm leaving my third question for later, and yes I'll be voting for Doug Jones because Roy Moore is everything that's wrong with our state and country.

One Navy Nurse

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There you have two very different takes on the Senate race. Both SS and ONN present some interesting ideas. Comments always welcome.