Only One Thing Will Stop Bevin's War on Women

Everybody getting the fuck out November 5 to VOTE.

From the Courier:

The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services has denied an abortion license for Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky.

The pro-choice group announced the decision in a release late Friday night.

“While Governor Bevin is once again on the wrong side of history, we will continue to fight this decision and the slew of unpopular decisions that take away reproductive health care and abortion access in the Commonwealth," PPINK CEO Chris Charbonneau said in a statement. "This decision shows the true motive, which is to purposefully place undue burdens on pregnant Kentuckians. Shame on Gov. Bevin and CHFS Secretary Adam Meier.”

The release went on to say that "Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) has once again weaponized a regulatory process to deny an abortion facility license to Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky (PPINK). ...

"... CHFS continues to refuse to comply with the court’s orders — its decision today is a blatant attempt to take the ongoing proceedings outside of the courts and bypass the authority of U.S. District Court Judge Greg Stivers. CHFS’s baseless denial of PPINK’s license will not stand."

Stivers previously ordered the state to expedite its review of the license Planned Parenthood was seeking to provide abortions at its Louisville clinic and report back to him no later than Aug.19 with a decision.

For now, EMW Women's Surgical Center in Louisville remains as the only abortion clinic in Kentucky.

"Dark Forces" Attacking Lt. Gov. Hampton Are the Ones She Eagerly Allied With

Lay down with repugs, get up with corruption, crime and clusterfucks.

And oh, yeah: racist, misogynistic motherfuckers.

You're a black woman, Jenean Hampton.  Successful and a veteran.  All the rights - ALL the rights you have as both an African-American and a woman have been brought to you by liberals and progressives (republicans for about 15 years 160 years ago, and Democrats since 1933.)

Why did you ever imagine teaming up with conservative assholes like Matt Bevin to destroy the Commonwealth and eventually the nation would turn out well for you?

Why are your wasting your own and everybody's else's time asking them to talk to an imaginary sky wizard? 

Why aren't you on Rachel Maddow exposing all of Bevin's crimes? Why aren't you rallying black and female voters behind Andy Beshear?

What. The. Fuck. Is. Wrong. With. You?

Lege Declares KY Women Sub-Human

UPDATE Below.

From the Herald:

Within minutes after the Kentucky Senate approved a bill Wednesday that restricts abortions, the American Civil Liberties Union said it will file a lawsuit against it on behalf of the only remaining abortion provider in the state.

The Senate gave final passage to House Bill 5 on a 32-4 vote and sent it to Republican Gov. Matt Bevin.

Bevin indicated on social media that he will sign it into law. “Bring it!” said Bevin. “Kentucky will always fight for life... Always!”

But never for the life of actual adult, living, breathing women.  To Bevin, tumors have rights, but women are just incubators.  

As for actual living, breathing children, Bevin has stripped away their healthcare in his Medicaid destruction, condemned them to death by freezing waiting for school buses, and accused their teachers of abandoning them to rapists and molesters.

The bill would take effect immediately upon his signature.

It basically bars a woman from having an abortion if she decided to have one because of a fetal diagnosis. It also would ban abortions based on the sex, race, national origin or ancestry of the fetus.

After the Senate vote, the ACLU said in a release it will file a lawsuit on behalf of EMW Women’s Surgical Center in Louisville, the only licensed center in Kentucky offering abortion services.

“Decisions about whether to end a pregnancy must be made by the woman and her family. But this law takes the decision away from them and hands it over to politicians,” Brigitte Amiri, deputy director with the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, said in a release.

“Kentucky women must be able to have private conversations with their health care providers and must be able to decide whether to have an abortion. We see this legislation for exactly what it is — part of a campaign to prevent a woman from obtaining an abortion if she needs one — and we won’t stand for it.”

Heather Gatnarek, staff attorney at the ACLU of Kentucky, said passage of the bill “represents a thinly veiled effort of the Kentucky General Assembly to advance their anti-abortion agenda under the guise of an anti-discrimination bill.

“This law will do nothing to improve the lives of Kentuckians with disabilities. In fact, a number of bills that would have addressed health care, housing and updated anti-discrimination protections were not even given a hearing of this legislation session.”

Crystal Staley, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Andy Beshear, who is a Democratic candidate for governor this year, said Wednesday night Beshear “thinks this legislative session was an opportunity to come together and get things done on jobs, the opioid crisis and protecting access to health car

“Unfortunately, we have instead seen the legislature focus on issues that divide us. A challenge to this legislation has already been announced and he believes the challenge will be successful in court.”

18 Kentucky "Democrats" voted for this abomination. Haven't confirmed names yet, but when I do I will post them.

Read more here: https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article227668719.html#story

This isn't about "life," it ain't about women's health and it sure as fuck ain't about helping children, who by the way, don't exist in any uterus.

UPDATE: The companion "fetal heartbeat" bill that outlaws abortion in Kentucky, has been blocked by a federal judge.  Give ALL your monies to the ACLU of Kentucky right now.  It is the only thing protecting civilization from Bevin the Hun right now.

Catlick Pieces of Shit From KY Show Their Racist Asses in D.C.

UPDATE Below.

Yeah, tell me again what a positive force in the world is religion. 

From Crooks and Liars:

So yesterday this happened at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. MAGA-wearing prep school boys taunting a Native Elder is pretty much symbolic of this entire disgusting era of Trump.

(Also the continuation of 500 years of Catlick abuse of Native people worldwide.)

Shameful.

Details are unclear, but it appears that an entire class from a private, all male boys school (Covington Catholic High School in Covington, Kentucky) were the culprits. Apparently they were bussed in to attend the March for Life event, the same thing the Pences attended.

Source: Indian Country Today

Native Twitter has gone ablaze as a Native American elder singing the AIM Song in Washington DC during the Indigenous Peoples March was ridiculed, taunted and mocked by a group of non-Native youth.

The video, which was posted by YouTube account holder KC NOLAND, was also screen captured and shared on other social media accounts with views shortly gaining tens of thousands of views.

The elder is Nathan Phillips, an Omaha elder who is also a Vietnam Veteran and former director of the Native Youth Alliance. He is also a keeper of a sacred pipe and holds an annual ceremony honoring Native American veterans in the Arlington National Cemetery.

 Click over to watch the disgusting videos.

UPDATE: Apologies and expulsions, my ass.  This is nowhere near enough.

“the behavior is opposed to the Church’s teachings on the dignity and respect of the human person.”

Are you FUCKING kidding me?  Those kids were there for the "March for Life."  You know, the one that advocates forced birth because uterine tumors are more important than the adult women who want to be free of them. The school took them there to teach them that women are just incubators.  Not really fully human.

Just like the Native they abused.

Read more here: https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/article224806590.html#storylink=cpy

Legal to Rape in KY, As Long As the Bitch Had a Drink First

This is fucking bullshit.  Shame on you, Lexington grand jury members.

From the Herald:

Rape and sodomy charges against the son of Franklin County Sheriff Pat Melton were dismissed by a Lexington grand jury this week, according to court documents.

Patrick Melton, a 22-year-old University of Kentucky student, was accused of “sexual and deviate sexual intercourse” without the consent of the alleged victim on July 7 at his residence on University Avenue in Lexington, his citation stated.

He was arrested in August. The woman allegedly tried to squirm, push and kick Melton, according to his original arrest citation.

Multiple witnesses confirmed the victim’s statements that she was intoxicated and passed out prior to the incident, his citation stated.

The grand jury met Tuesday and dismissed Melton’s first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy charges, according to court documents.

It's Justice Rapey McLiarFace's world now.  We just live in it.

Don't step on the dead women in alleys

Thank you, Governor Give Birth Or Die, You Bitches.  Abortion restrictions do not prevent a single abortion.  They only prevent safe, legal abortions.  They do, however, increase sales of wire hangers.

Sheldon Shafer at the Courier:

The EMW Women's Clinic in Lexington, one of the two remaining outlets in Kentucky that performed abortions, is closing, effective Jan. 27.

That amounts to "some very sad news for the women of Kentucky today. The Lexington abortion clinic is now a permanent casualty of Kentucky's governor, Matt Bevin," according to a posting on the Facebook page of the Kentucky National Organization for Women.

The state's only abortion provider is the EMW Women's Surgical Center in Louisville.

The Facebook post quoted a statement from officials of the clinic that said:

"As you know, for the past 6 1/2 months we have diligently pursued obtaining a license to operate an abortion facility. Although we and our attorney believed we had fulfilled all the requirements to obtain the license, the Inspector General of Kentucky disagreed and denied us the license.

"Unfortunately, our landlord has also declined to renew our lease on the space we have occupied at 161 Burt Road since 1989."

Clinic officials said, "There is, indeed, a chill wind blowing for women of Kentucky."

Phone calls to the Lexington clinic were not answered Saturday afternoon.

►RELATED:  Andy Beshear won't defend one abortion bill

The Kentucky Supreme Court in August denied an appeal that would have reopened the Lexington clinic that closed in June amid the dispute over licensing. It apparently had not resumed offering the procedure in recent months.

Abortion-rights advocates continue to confront Bevin and his conservative backers on the abortion controversy.

Just this past week the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit aimed at blocking a new Kentucky abortion law that would require doctors providing abortions to first perform an ultrasound of the fetus and try to show and describe the image to the patient — even if she objects.

The measure, House Bill 2, was approved earlier this month by the Kentucky General Assembly, with an emergency clause that allowed Bevin to sign it into law immediately. He also signed into law a bill that prohibits abortion after a woman reaches the 20th week of pregnancy.

The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Louisville on behalf of the state's sole remaining abortion provider, EMW Women's Surgical Center in Louisville, and three physicians who provide abortions.

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Somebody Ask Alison If She Thinks Your Boss Can Decide How You Fuck

Grimes sent out yet another begging-for-money email this afternoon.  It stood out like a sore thumb in my inbox among the dozens of emails from women's groups and progressive organizations condemning the anti-woman, anti-family, anti-freedom, corporations-as-masters supreme court decision.

Probably the most breathtaking aspect of the majority's opinion is how it just doesn't give two shits about women. Alito's decision doesn't take into account, even for a line or two, how a ruling for "religious liberty" is a ruling against women, dismissing that notion outright, in fact. This is all about making sure that butthurt Christians can do what their specific sect believes will please an invisible sky wizard, which includes, for some, making sure that women have those goddamn babies. The majority just ignores that there's real women with real lives who this decision really affects.

Is Grimes not aware of the catastrophic blow that decision is to millions of working families and their children?  Or does she agree with the Sammy "christian sharia for all!" Alito that the freakazoid fantasies of employers should trump workers' health and freedom?
 

Or does she just not give a flying fuck about anybody who can't afford to max out on campaign contributions to her?

Half the population of the Commonwealth, Alison.  That's whose votes you just lost by ignoring the greatest direct threat to women's lives and safety since another Supreme Court denied workers any rights at all in 1905.

QOTD

Betty Reid Soskin, 92:

I find myself at a stage where I have outlived my rage without losing my passion.

Read the whole thing.

Unless You Demand Free Universal Abortion on Demand, You're Not A Libertarian

You're just a pathetic Tribble-Toupeed dudebro without a clue.

As always, I sincerely hope Mrs. Tribble-Toupeed One is fucking her brains out with the pool boy.