In emotional Lansing abortion debate, tears, rage, personal stories of rape, miscarriage
Source: Detroit Free Press
State Sen. Gretchen Whitmer was raped 20 years ago.
State Rep. Colleen Lamonte had a difficult and painful miscarriage at 12 weeks of pregnancy.
State Rep. Vickie Barnett was forced to get advanced fetal testing to make sure her unborn children didn’t suffer from the devastating Tay Sachs genetic disorder.
The highly personal stories, delivered with tears, rage and anger, accompanied the emotional debate Wednesday on a bill that will require women to buy additional insurance rider if they want abortion coverage in their health insurance plans. . .
Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20131211/NEWS06/312110154/Whitmer-rape-abortion-Michigan
Needless to say, they had no effect today on the gerrymandered, right-wing, anti-woman GOP in Michigan. More:
The three Democratic women resorted to revealing their most painful memories as a means to try and convince their Republican colleagues to reject the abortion insurance initiative and allow voters across the state to decide the issue, rather than just the 4% of the state’s voters who signed a petition to get the law enacted.
Their pleas fell on deaf ears. The measure passed the Senate on a 27-11 vote and in the House, it was 62-47.
Shameful doesn't even begin to cover this. It's an all-out, no prisoners taken war on women in Michigan and elsewhere. It will only get worse in 2014, and look at those voting margins.
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... and if they are male, to someone they actually care about, like their wife or daughter. Like the conversion stories of politicians whose favorite son turns out to be gay, these *holes will not get it until it is that personal.
Every woman knows someone who was raped. Every woman knows many women who have miscarried.
Words just fail me at this point. 
