Voters delivered a smackdown to Rethuglican over-reachers in yesterday's voting in several states. Union rights were affirmed in Ohio, as were womens' rights yesterday in Mississippi, where voters rejected a fundamentalist right-wing referendum to define "personhood" as a fertilized egg, and virtually outlaw abortion. The right-wing Uterus Mullahs wanted to make Mississippi the flagship for an assault on womens' reproductive rights, and weeks ago it looked as though they were going to win. But, when voters considered the impact this "definition" would have on women seeking in vitro fertilization or on women suffering from rape, incest or miscarriage, they decisively rejected it.
Odd, isn't it, that these right-wing kooks want the government to force women to bear a child, regardless of the circumstances, but have no problem walking away once that child is born when they advocate cuts in Medicaid and school lunch programs that benefit poor mothers. "Pro-life" indeed.
