There's this feature on my computer that when I start typing into the headline bar that it tells me about similar headlines that I've used in the past. Do you know how many times the word "laughingstock" comes up?
This bill really demonstrates the exciting new extremist direction of anti-choice nuttery—the bill author's Todd Akin-style imagined reality, where ob-gyns are fetus doctors instead of lady doctors, is particularly charming. But what makes this even more offensive than the norm of offensiveness we've grown used to is that Michigan just slashed a bunch of tax relief for actual children. Michigan Republicans took the hatchet to the Earned Income Tax Credit and childcare subsidy, a move that directly hurts families who are trying to house, clothe and feed children unfortunate enough to have developed beyond the fetal stage into the living, breathing person stage. If Michigan passes this new bill, it can only be taken as a direct statement that fetuses have far more value to Michigan than children.
Again, it wouldn't be so terrible if we extended tax breaks for certain medical conditions, with a pregnancy being one of them, but the way they're doing it is just simply silly. And, based on something I saw Zack Pohl mention on Twitter, we're about to be laughed at by an international audience.
Maybe we should just let the feds impose a health care exchange on us.
