Abortion Bans And Fraud Scams

It's how the rotted out Republican Party rolls, part infinity.

Last week:

Georgia's Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation on Tuesday banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected. That can be as early as six weeks, before many women know they're pregnant.

Kemp said he was signing the bill "to ensure that all Georgians have the opportunity to live, grow, learn and prosper in our great state."  (our emphasis)

So, the goobers passed a law essentially forcing pregnancy on women.  The law's language would also allow prosecution of doctors who perform a procedure widely recognized as a medically acceptable standard of care, in a state with the highest maternal mortality rate in the country. 

Of course, the broader point of this law, and the even more restrictive law about to be signed into law in the theocratic state of Alabammy, is to force the issue through the courts to the Supreme Court.  There, these bible- banging zealots expect the Trump court to overturn or completely neuter Roe v. Wade.  (Let's never forget, if it weren't for evil turtle/ hobgoblin hybrid Mitch "Missy" McConnell blocking the Merrick Garland nomination, there would be a 5-4 moderate/ liberal majority on the Court right now.)

But, don't you know those same bible- banging Georgia Republicans are some fine moral people:

Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck was accused Tuesday by a federal grand jury of stealing more than $2 million from his former employer.

The 38-count indictment charges Beck, an ex-insurance lobbyist and long-time leader of the Georgia Christian Coalition, with fraud and money laundering in an elaborate scheme to defraud the Georgia Underwriting Association. With the stolen cash, the Republican allegedly paid his credit card bills and taxes — and even funded the 2018 campaign that landed him in office. (our emphasis)

Who says Trump isn't the purest manifestation of Republicanism that ever was?