Two for the Road

The Right never seems to tire of coming up with new and increasingly sneaky ways to accomplish their objectives without a frontal assault.

The latest are laws in Tennessee and Mississippi dealing with evolution and abortion.

In Tennessee the governor is ready to sign a bill that protects teachers that allow students to criticize scientific theories. Read that allows the bashing of evolution and global warming in the classroom while nodding stupidly. The sponsor of the bill claims it’s not religiously based. Aside from the fact that I’m not stupid enough to buy that one, and neither is the ACLU or NCSE, what then is the purpose?

In Mississippi, hospitals tend to not extend admission privileges to doctors that perform abortions so the Mississippi legislation thinks it’s a great idea to require doctors that perform abortions to have admission privileges at as local hospital. Can you say Catch-22 fast three times?

The sole remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi says that it may be forced to close if the bill passes although it may challenge the law first in court. Fat chance with that one.

That means that women in Mississippi that want an abortion either need to travel to another state or they have to do it the old fashioned way along with all the risks that entails.

After a while you just get tired of the sheer arrogance of ignorant people.